Columnists newsletter from The Denver Post

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Today's Most Recent Columnist

Editorial: McNulty divorces reality on civil unions
House Speaker Frank McNulty steamrolled majority opinion Monday and saw to it that a bill legalizing civil unions was killed on the first day of a special legislative session.  

• Guest Commentary: A weak Denver police monitor just won't do
• Editorial: Will McNulty do the right thing on civil unions?
• Quillen: The exhausting week I played mom
• Guest Commentary: Industry and agriculture in Colorado

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Tina Griego - Metro

Griego: Denver won my heart, but Richmond, Virginia, now summons
The editor of this paper, Greg Moore, uses a particular phrase when a reporter is taking too long to get to the point of a story. "Throat-clearing," he calls it. I'm guilty on occasion. Today won't be one of them. I'm leaving Denver.  

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Ed Quillen - Opinion

Quillen: The exhausting week I played mom
Every year when Mother's Day comes around I think of one of the hardest weeks of my life, a few days as a single parent about 30 years ago.