John Ensslin

Covering Denver for Colorado Politics. Former national president of The Society of Professional Journalists. Send news tips to [email protected]

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Alaska, photographed by Ansel Adams, 1948:

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And thanks to W.J. Belford, we can report that McQueen realty, also in Berkeley, has in its window a sign reading “Spanish Spoken Here,”—in Chinese. 1976

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LBJ relaxes next to Sony TV aboard Presidential yacht Sequoia on the Potomac, this month 1967: #LBJL

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Nice tribute to my father @ByShelbyReardon. Ride on, pop. #snowboard #snowboarding When the snow flies, please take a few runs for him. https://t.co/YmcYEy3ATx

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Kings.

Happy 95th birthday, #JamesBaldwin.

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Four strikes and you're out!! Well, back in the year 1887 that would have been the call. For a period it took five balls for a walk and four strikes for an out as this 19th century umpire ball-strike indicator shows. It was made out of celluloid, not ivory as looks might suggest

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Denver GOP chair Kristina Cook talks about how she wants to keep the party relevant in a deep-blue city in the latest @colo_politics Podcast: https://t.co/4EwgXKnZrM

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"We are Switzerland, is what I always say.
As long as there are more than two Democrats on the ballot, we stay out," Denver Democratic Party Chair Melissa Johnsen on the party's neutrality in contests between Dems. Hear more in our @colo_politics Podcast: https://t.co/kcT7fwVtHi

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Nixon arrives for 1968 Republican convention, Hilton Plaza, Miami Beach: #AP

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Statue of Liberty as it was dedicated, 1886: #LOC

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Starting my day covering a Congressional hearing on climate change at the University of Colorado. Story to follow @colo_politics.

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“Adolescence is believing that ‘Frisco’ is a racy nickname for a city; senility is automatically saying ‘Don’t call it Frisco’; maturity is figuring it doesn’t matter all that much…” 1965

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Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, Sept 2, 1963 - A Sandy Koufax pitch is lost in the crowd and brilliantly captured by legendary photographer Neil Leifer. Koufax would strike out 13 Houston batters to notch his 21st win of the season, arguably his finest year ever, in Dodgers 7-3 win

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My latest @colo_politics podcast: a conversation with historian Robert Goldberg on former Denver Mayor Ben Stapleton's involvement with the KKK in the 1920s. Voting on the renaming issue ends today: https://t.co/pZpjXMxQ6R

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This is how birding is done in the #Maldives

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"The coffee came via the kind of percolator Julia hadn’t seen since her grandmother’s kitchen, something comforting in its hiss and burble, the brown liquid leaping in the glass insert in its lid." #1linewed #amwriting

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Houdini before being sealed in crate and dropped into East River NYC, this month 1912: #Dietz

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Harry Truman's application card for Medicare, co-signed by Lyndon Johnson on same day he signed Medicare bill at Truman Library, today 1965:

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Well hello!
Great Egret at Turtle Pond
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