Teresa Keegan

Scientific instruments are not crystal balls, and scientists are not soothsayers. In spite of our best efforts, the planet may continue to warm, or because of our best efforts, it may not.

Keegan: There’s no such thing as settled science, and that’s a fact

May 10, 2017 at 3:40 p.m.

Scientific instruments are not crystal balls, and scientists are not soothsayers. In spite of our best efforts, the planet may continue to warm, or because of our best efforts, it...

A garbage truck makes stops in Northglenn on April 4, 2013. More than 100 people turned out at Westminster City Hall on Feb. 27, many of them there to condemn a plan that would give the city the responsibility for providing trash and recycling collection to Westminster鈥檚 28,000 single-family households.

Keegan: On trash collection and the Pledge of Allegiance

March 11, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.

The feisty citizens of Westminster recently made it clear that they are adamantly opposed to a city plan to contract with one company for the provision of centralized trash collection.

Keegan: Balancing budgets by a thousand cuts

February 11, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.

Last November, Gov. John Hickenlooper delivered a $28.5 billion budget to the Colorado legislature, which includes a shortfall of several hundred million dollars.

Those who most loudly sing the praises of computers in schools should remember that while geniuses created computers, there is no guarantee that computers will create geniuses.

Keegan: More chalkboards, fewer iPads

June 22, 2017 at 3:29 p.m.

Those who most loudly sing the praises of computers in schools should remember that while geniuses created computers, there is no guarantee that computers will create geniuses.

Keegan: A reminder to the healthy-living scolds: We all die someday

December 4, 2016 at 12:11 a.m.

Anyone who thinks it抖阴ap an absolutely fabulous idea to live to an advanced old age needs to pay a visit to a nursing home and talk with residents there.

A husband and wife, who did not want to be identified, hold cigarettes as they walk in historic downtown Littleton in this 2015 file photo. A hefty new tobacco tax will be decided on by Colorado voters in December.

Keegan: Who needs tobacco taxes? Peer pressure reduces smoking — and it’s free

November 5, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

Amendment 72, the Colorado tobacco tax Increase, is on the ballot this Tuesday.聽 If it passes, the tax on a pack of cigarettes will triple. People are battling fiercely over...

Keegan: Make downtown Denver parking great again

September 30, 2016 at 12:00 p.m.

Now that Denver has addressed its 鈥渁ffordable housing crisis,鈥� the City Council should next tackle the city's 鈥渁ffordable parking crisis.鈥�

Keegan: Job readiness and knowledge don’t just come from college

September 1, 2016 at 9:18 a.m.

Perhaps some day, some group will convince the business world that, while 鈥渃ollege鈥� rhymes with 鈥渒nowledge,鈥� there are many different roads to learning that don鈥檛 cost the earth.

Noah Luce, 17, plants kale at Bean Acres Farm in Lakewood on March 9.

Keegan: Is farm-to-table living in agrihoods just a phase?

June 9, 2016 at 1:33 p.m.

The wildly popular 鈥渇arm-to-table鈥� movement has sparked fresh interest in country living.

Keegan: Fourteen centuries of standardized testing can’t be wrong

April 29, 2016 at 9:04 a.m.

Keegan: Fourteen centuries of standardized testing can't be wrong

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