Sue McMillin

McMillin: Coloradans could pledge, for Earth Day, to maintain the coronavirus emissions reduction

April 22, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

Pledging to continue the things we have done because of the coronavirus to work toward lessening our carbon footprints is a wonderful way to mark this Earth Day and honor...

COPPER MOUNTAIN, CO - MARCH 13: A skier rides the Lumberjack lift at the Copper Mountain ski area March 13, 2020. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

McMillin: Why Coloradans played as the virus spread around the globe

April 18, 2020 at 7:00 a.m.

When the first murmur of a new virus issued forth we were celebrating the end of a decade and the arrival of a new year. One hundred days later, millions...

A boy reaches for a book on the top shelf in the children's section of the Tattered Cover Book Store on Colfax Ave. in Denver on June 11, 2016. (Photo by Kathryn Scott Osler/The Denver Post, file)

McMillin: What Coloradans could do with the coronavirus “time that is given us”

March 25, 2020 at 7:00 a.m.

We know that we awakened to the global threat of a new virus much too glibly and slowly.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis addresses the ...

McMillin: As anxiety mounts over Colorado COVID-19 cases, remember we’re all in this together

March 12, 2020 at 2:26 p.m.

A calamitous week has followed an anxious couple of months as the scope of the coronavirus emergency unfolded.

This cover image released by One World shows "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi.

McMillin: It took a serendipitous journey to realize that I am not only an anti-racist, but a racist

February 21, 2020 at 3:38 p.m.

I am racist, and I am anti-racist. Author Ibram X. Kendi gave me the words, the definitions and, indirectly, the encouragement to write that sentence. It抖阴ap a start.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), far left, greets Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) as former Vice President Joe Biden, second from left, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg stand by ahead of the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on Jan. 14 in Des Moines, Iowa.

McMillin: If prejudice can hide behind “electability,” the glass ceiling will never break

February 13, 2020 at 3:26 p.m.

Our national winnability debate is sexist and racist and reveals more about us than the quirkiness of our politics.

A brown cloud hangs over downtown Denver in this November 2001 file photo.

McMillin: You — yes you — can fight the brown cloud

February 7, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

Recent reports about Colorado鈥檚 air quality, particularly in Denver and along the northern Front Range, might prompt you to run out for respirator masks. (And if you do, please actually...

The birds are coming (or are already here). Here鈥檚 how to see them.

January 23, 2020 at 8:51 a.m.

Colorado is home to more than 400 species of birds and is located in the Central Flyway, meaning it's a stopover for migrating birds, including bald eagles.

McMillin: This decade recognize women as equals with an Equal Rights Amendment

January 11, 2020 at 10:00 a.m.

In the grand tradition of year-end retrospection and introspection, I looked back decades. And as we step into this new year, I have a specific wish: to see women recognized...

The Denver Post's presses run at the newspaper's printing plant on Washington Street.

McMillin: Nothing can quite replace the smell of newsprint in the morning, but e-editions are close

December 26, 2019 at 9:37 a.m.

I believe the printed newspaper makes me a better citizen of the world and helps me see beyond my own interests or those served up by my friends on social...

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