http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5Now that we can be described as living in the "age of spin" along with the "age of selfishness," and six or seven other descriptions of our sad condition, it is becoming harder and harder to tell the wheat from the chaff (or the stuff you step in unexpectedly in the grass). Friends send you emai...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Your-Voice/Blog~686175.aspx11/12/2009 11:15:11 AMEva Kosinski Now I don't want to belittle in any way those struggling with real bipolar disorder. It is a serious and sometimes life threatening condition, but I do mean to say that the "bipolar thinking" that is being done by both major parties (and which is now even seeping into third party strategies), is ...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~661073.aspx9/30/2009 9:41:16 AMEva Kosinski When we push aside all the fearmongering (if we don't have universal health care, we are in deep trouble; if we do, we are in deep trouble, etc.) the posturing, the rhetoric, the oversimplifications and the outright fibs, only two questions actually exist in the world of Health Care Reform: "What...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~654740.aspx9/10/2009 9:15:21 AMEva Kosinski It's been raining for a long time now, and staying cooler this spring than in the past 10 years or so, and if you're a gardener, you've seen the results....weeds that can be measured by the foot. It's funny the way things work. The vegetables are sort of in stasis. They're coming up, and they...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~627049.aspx6/16/2009 9:35:58 AMEva Kosinski Years ago, after working a number of years at the jobs most art majors tend to get coming out of college, answering phones, taking orders, filing, customer service, etc. my career took a mighty shift when, in an economic downturn in 1978, it looked like a big layoff was in the offing, and I went ...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~622699.aspx6/3/2009 9:12:54 AMEva Kosinski I"m no poet, as you can clearly see, but this has been running around in my head for weeks, so I finally wanted to put it on paper. The discussion on how much development we want is complicated and has become a web of interests rather than a linear process. This is, quite simply, the gardener's s...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~619421.aspx5/26/2009 9:58:56 AMEva Kosinski One of the things that we tend to do in politics is to extrapolate the world as we see it (see the blind men and the elephant blog entry). The truth is, that's what we do with everything. It doesn't occur to us that some huge percentage of the population is still working its way to whole whea...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~612985.aspx5/8/2009 10:44:37 AMEva Kosinski Sometimes the political issues are so huge, with twists and turns and gotchas, it's hard to find a way to think about them. Most of us have job pressures, families, bills to pay, and, it seems, barely time to breathe, not alone time to follow political trends to glean "the big picture." it's just...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~611802.aspx5/6/2009 7:04:50 AMEva Kosinski You have been stranded by the side of the road with a flat tire. After a few expletives deleted, you start thinking about what to do to get yourself back on the road. You open the back, find the spare, get out the tools, and get to it. You do not replace the air filter and hope that fixes it. Eve...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Politics/Local-State-Politics/Blog~610254.aspx5/1/2009 12:02:07 PMEva Kosinski Maybe it comes from football (the term certainly does), our tendency to make sure we can always find a way around things as they are, to get to where we want them to be. Folks always find the tax preparer most likely to get them the best deal on their taxes, or they play games with extensions to ...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~579893.aspx2/13/2009 8:01:17 AMEva Kosinski We're kind of getting used to having things all pre-packaged for us. Even those of us who eschew plastic bags and frozen foods, prefer to buy in bulk and cook our own. I guess on that side, we've gotten more awareness over the years, but when it comes to issues, we want the packaging. We want...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~579786.aspx2/12/2009 4:19:33 PMEva Kosinski The recent events in Louisville around the approval of a single-hauler trash program (not quite pay as you throw, but close) has got me thinking about how the systems we are using these days often pit folks against one another. I realize that everyone, from all sides of an issue, are bringing...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~568492.aspx1/14/2009 7:55:11 PMEva Kosinski For decades, it's been the same litany of resolutions: lose that weight, get in shape, keep in better touch with your family, don't forget birthdays, anniversaries, etc... Many of them are useful. Some folks actually do lose the weight (at least for the first quarter of the year), some actual...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~563691.aspx1/2/2009 8:09:05 AMEva Kosinski One of the things that happens as you get older is the recycling of situations. Things come up that you've seen over and over in your life, and the patterns start to emerge. In 1957 you had a friend who wanted to date a boy so badly she made an idiot of herself and unwittingly convinced him to st...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~560420.aspx12/19/2008 8:25:52 AMEva Kosinski As the issue of Global Warming continues to come into clearer and clearer focus (with more and more previously-unconvinced folks looking at the data), I wonder how we will actually be able to deal with this. Right now folks are talking about carbon footprints and selling carbon credits as tho...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~455327.aspx4/14/2008 8:21:33 AMEva Kosinski Years ago, in a Pogo cartoon, one of the characters said "I have seen the enemy, and he is us," and as obscure as that sentiment was to me (I was a child at the time), I'm pretty sure now that I know what he meant. The American public has an almost mythical ability to deny reality even when i...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~346173.aspx8/10/2007 8:40:47 AMEva Kosinski It seems lately that I've been spending a lot more time looking (somewhat suspiciously) at my fellow man. Sometimes I'm completely blown away by something truly generous and sincere that people do (like volunteer firefighters, who put themselves in harms way every day, and are some of the most up...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~343341.aspx8/3/2007 11:23:47 AMEva Kosinski Ever just take a dictionary (or google) and follow all the words to see their connections? It's kind of interesting. After going to the local meeting on the mandate by City Council that City Staff come up with a new trailer/RV ordinance, I was moved to follow some of the terms that we bandy about...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~314783.aspx5/29/2007 2:55:47 PMEva Kosinski Everywhere you work, there's one. That person who is supposed to have a specific job, who spends every waking moment (at least by your lights) trying to do other people's jobs, hobnobbing with the boss on the golf links to lobby for a better raise, doing as little as possible for that money, and ...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~292997.aspx4/12/2007 7:26:20 AMEva Kosinski Questions have been bugging me all week, brought on mostly by the large amount of attention that the issue of Global Warming is getting these days. "How do we know if it really is happening? Whose data should we trust? Do they really understand how these complex systems work? Are people using thi...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~289945.aspx4/5/2007 9:00:02 PMEva Kosinski It's the end of the work day, and the traffic is really annoying, and the weather isn't what it could be, and you know the family is chomping at the bit for supper, so the side trip on the way home is to fast food heaven to get a bucket or a bagfull of something to keep body and soul together. ...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Food-and-Drink/Blog~286762.aspx3/30/2007 11:39:49 AMEva Kosinski When I was a kid, it was still the age of the coffee klatch. "The Aunts" one or two at a time, would unceremoniously drop in for coffee in the morning. This is a tradition that I always thought a bit odd. Now it would be particularly politically incorrect, because they often brought donuts and pa...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~281313.aspx3/20/2007 9:56:06 AMEva Kosinski The first grocery store I ever went to (I was 4) was run by an ancient (probably 50) German woman who sold sandwich meats and cheeses, pastries, and some wonderful and unique breads. Her store was in her house (in those days you could actually DO that without neighbors going apoplectic), and lots...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~281309.aspx3/20/2007 9:53:21 AMEva Kosinski All you have to do is turn on the radio or the TV, and you'll find the 2008 election campaign season well under way. There's the gossip; who's really going to run, who's playing coy and waiting to see, who's got the biggest money cache, who's got the past most likely to cause mud-slinging. Then h...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~277788.aspx3/13/2007 11:55:11 AMEva Kosinski One of the problems that repeatedly comes up again and again (to my mind wasting both the time of local citizens and the already overcommitted time of City Council which surely has more pressing matters) is the need for some folks to make rules about what other people can and cannot do with their...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~185413.aspx2/20/2007 10:10:10 AMEva Kosinski Once Cities had their own choices to make about their schools, their transportation systems, their land use, and their elections. Now, more and more frequently, "regional" entities have been formed to "coordinate" the activities of neighboring Cities. Some are at the County Level (like intergover...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~53450.aspx2/15/2006 8:45:19 AMEva Kosinski If you've had any occasion lately to be sick and find yourself in need of a doctor, or wanted to get help about staying healthy for as long as possible, or had an accident and spent time in an emergency room, you know one thing. The current non-alternative medicine establishment, especially, th...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~59320.aspx3/5/2006 10:21:04 AMEva Kosinski I've been asked to post this letter which is soon to come out in the Louisville Times: -all4thinking Dear Editor: It has come to my attention that for some reason our elected Louisville officials have allowed Comcast to seize control of the Citizens Community Television Station. Additionally, t...http://denver.yourhub.com/LouisvilleandSuperior/Blogs/Archive/Blog~53504.aspx2/15/2006 11:01:59 AMEva Kosinski