Erica Meltzer

Deported without his hearing aids.

I have done a few things that I would not want to become public if I ran for public office. And I would try very hard to remember all of them before I made a decision about running for office. Because they would become public. But I do not have any Nazi tattoos.

Does a Supreme Court gender identity ruling end ‘secrecy regimes’ or take away ‘pieces of independence’? The conservative majority’s opinion in Mirabelli v. Bonta favors parental rights. But it leaves schools a lot of tricky questions about the right course of action when it comes to students and gender identity.

The conservative majority’s opinion in Mirabelli v. Bonta favors parental rights. But it leaves schools a lot of tricky questions about the right course of action when it comes to students and gender identity.

In the grand scheme of things, we could do a lot worse than a bunch of teenagers descending on a state park on a gorgeous spring day.

Funny story: When I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay, the country had only recently adopted daylight savings time. The people in my village just changed the time of church and school so it was the same time by the sun as it had been before daylight savings time.

My spidey senses started to tingle at this part: So every time Aham initiated any kind of hard conversation, even if it was just like, “You need to do the dishes right after you cook,” I would react like someone was chasing me with a knife.

When one person cooks, the other person does the dishes!

I wondered if the open enrollment data was apples to apples in terms of intra-district and inter-district open enrollment.

Many Families Choose Public Schools Other Than Their Assigned Ones An analysis of 27 states and Washington, D.C. shows open enrollment is increasingly an attractive public school choice

Maybe this? www.educationnext.org/many-familie...

This group quietly started a Christian public school in Colorado. Could it happen again? Some Colorado lawmakers and education officials say more guardrails are needed after a public education co-op opened Colorado’s “first public Christian school” last summer.

Some Colorado lawmakers and education officials say more guardrails are needed after a public education co-op opened Colorado’s “first public Christian school” last summer.

LAUSD board places Carvalho on administrative leave, names acting superintendent

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Schools should be ‘protected spaces’ from ICE activity, Denver mayor says in new executive order But it’s unclear what practical effect Mayor Mike Johnston’s order will have on Denver Public Schools, which is debating its own policy to bar ICE agents from school property without a warrant

But it’s unclear what practical effect Mayor Mike Johnston’s order will have on Denver Public Schools, which is debating its own policy to bar ICE agents from school property without a warrant

You hear about woke teachers indoctrinating kids, and the stuff my kids come home with is "Ms. C said Joe Rogan is more reliable than CNN" or "Mr. K said folic acid is bad for you."

The problem with school boards Political scientist Vladimir Kogan says school board politics often reward adult priorities. He explains why culture-war fights and off-cycle elections can leave students behind.

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I spoke with political scientist Vlad Kogan about his provocative new book "No Adult Left Behind." He argues that the politics of public education privilege the interest of adults over students. I tried to pressure test his arguments in this Q&A.

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I never had one until last year and then we ate them for as long as they were in the stores and now they are back and it is all we are eating.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Everything about this story is awful from start to finish. A blind man who doesn't speak English gets lost, Buffalo police tase and arrest him, he's handed over to Border Patrol, and they leave him on the far side of town. Now he's dead. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

FBI raids LAUSD Supt. Alberto Carvalho's home, office Federal authorities are raiding the home and office of Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Alberto Carvalho, the FBI confirmed.

FBI raids Los Angeles Unified offices and the home of Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. Not much additional information at this point. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Online Accusations in Guthrie Abduction Leave One Family ‘Scared Numb’

Another victim of online sleuths who were certain they had cracked the case:

“I feel like someone’s taken my name,” said Dominic Evans, an elementary-school teacher who was accused on social media of being the ski-masked man at Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep.

I've now read five different outlets on the State of the Union, and I'm disturbed that no one has described the degree to which he singled out and targeted the Somali American community.

Maybe "normal" for Trump, but it should not be "normal" for a State of the Union.

Trump wants historic sites to glorify America. Students help make sure this site tells the truth. “I think our country is strong enough to understand the history of our nation in its totality, and I think that anything less than that makes us weak,” wrote one Amache visitor.

"Everything you see here, it could happen to another person again.”

In a small town in a conservative corner of Colorado, high school students protect the stories of Amache, one of 10 Japanese American incarceration sites.

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And that means I don't believe the Denver Post newsroom is compromised in some core way. I think it lacks resources and even in that constrained environment, has attracted a lot of good, hard-working people who have breathed new life into its news coverage. You disagree. Fine.

I don't know if you ever worked in a newsroom or what your experience was, but my experience is that even under the worst owners, editorial interference on the *news* side is very, very rare. No one has time for that shit.

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views.

"just 2 percent of all college students—including 3 percent of Republicans—say they feel they don’t belong on campus due to their political views"

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Seriously. This feels like "don't threaten me with a good time."

If the *existence* of the Denver Post is what's blocking the emergence of this amazing new alternative, by definition the Denver Post is good enough to be worth saving. That means it's providing value to the community it serves.

Because media represents a complete market failure. Even the models that were supposed to save us from the other models have faltered. The Colorado Sun doesn't even try to cover Denver. Why? Who's making a play for the Denver Post's lunch? Anschutz-owned Denver Gazette.

I also feel like the advertising ruins whatever aesthetic value it has.

And I do not believe that because I have worked in every type of business model for journalism and none of them have solved the fundamental economic problems. There will be news in Denver without the Post, but we will be worse off.

Alden is a terrible owner AND there are many good journalists still at the Post. Nothing that has happened means the Post deserves to die. Every other outlet can make strategic choices about what to cover because the Post exists. The Post also continues to produce strong investigations.

Because I worked on my high school paper, even when I was a student, my stress dreams involved picking up the published piece and finding it hopelessly ridden with errors.

The Denver airport paid $14.5M for a glowing sign. A decade later, it’s not looking great Malfunctioning lights, cheap-looking screens and disappointing ad sales.

I feel so validated by this story. I was covering Denver City Council when they approved this project, and I literally can't drive past it without saying, "We paid $14 million for that!" My kids are like, "Mom, enough already about the sign."

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