More than two dozen buses dropped hundreds of immigrants off in the parking lot of the Sam’s Club near Denver’s Central Park one December morning, and the only person there to greet them was Greg Lenora, a security guard hired by Sam’s Club to protect the parking area.

In order to save the planet, you must switch to driving an electric car. And in order to drive your electric car, you must rely on diesel.

Minnesota has a better-than-average unemployment rate and per capita GDP. It also has a top-tier employment-to-population ratio and the third-lowest rate of poverty.

We don’t know how to talk to each other these days, and that includes those who are paid to do the talking. The current generation of late-night talk show hosts, supposedly professional conversationalists, fail miserably at the job. Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show is awkward, giggly, and forced in his enthusiasms, while Stephen Colbert on The Late Show is stern, plodding, and ponderous. Credit Jimmy Kimmel for at least having a sense of joie de vivre, but his joie is strictly from the Jackass school of extroversion: The man is no great communicator but merely a back-slapping post-post-adolescent.