PUEBLO – Score one for Congresswoman Michelle Bachman (R) Minn. – maybe. On the heels of the New York Legislature’s historic June 23 vote to recognize gay marriage in that state, she became the first presidential candidate to sign the FAMiLY LEADER pledge, titled “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence Upon Marriage and Family,” a.k.a. the “Marriage Vow” pledge.

PUEBLO – I spent a good portion of Friday, June 10, driving from Pueblo to Denver and back. It’s not my favorite journey on Colorado’s roads. I’d much rather use those hours exploring the places few vehicles and people go.

PUEBLO – As I write this, the entire nation is breathing a sigh of relief.

That’s because Republicans and Democrats have hammered out a compromise funding a budget extension that will keep the government running for another week – until April 15.

By Richard A. Joyce
Redstone Review
PUEBLO – Back in the late 1980s, give or take a couple of years, I took my daughter, Shannon, to Galveston, Texas, to spend some time with my former in-laws, with whom I had good relationships despite my recent divorce.
Shannon lived with her mom during the school year and with me [...]

PUEBLO – The magnitude of the oil-spill disaster currently unfolding along the eastern U.S. Gulf Coast is quite literally beyond calculation.

Life for the people of that region has been changed, if not forever, then for the foreseeable future. Loss of wildlife, loss of jobs, loss of boats, businesses and hope have mounted steadily with every barrel of oil that surges from beneath the ocean floor into the water currents of the Gulf.

PUEBLO – In a recent TV news report about the new Arizona law on immigration, the reporter interviewed a family of five that was packing up to leave that state to avoid being arrested.