Southern Colorado: An American Treasure

“O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!”-Katherine Lee Bates atop Pikes Peak Colorado has so much more to offer than just Denver and skiing. The southern portion of the state is a unique character in and of itself. As a bridge between the Mountain Read More…

The Heart of the Rockies

“He climbed cathedral mountains, he saw silver clouds below  He saw everything as far as you can see  And they say that he got crazy once and he tried to touch the sun  And he lost a friend but kept his memory”-John Denver; Rocky Mountain High As many of us can remember from playing the Oregon Read More…

Reflection on Deliberations

The two deliberations I participated in were my own deliberation cyberbullying deliberation and one discussing sustainability in regard to plastics here at Penn State. I found both deliberations in some ways similar, however, there were certainly some stark differences between the two. The cyberbullying deliberation was better at the distribution of speaking time. In all Read More…

Denver, the Mile High City

Colorado is a vast and varied state in landscape, however the vast majority of the population lives in the Greater Denver Area. Of the 5 million people who live in Colorado, 3.5 million of them live in this region. To have any understanding of Colorado, one must first get a grip on Denver. Denver is Read More…