Leo Grassens

Leo Grassens is a retired engineer, a resident of Colorado since 1984 and a 25 year subscriber of the Reporter-Herald.

Leo Grassens: The war between Lilliput and Blefuscu offers lessons for Americans today (guest opinion)

May 5, 2026 at 6:32 a.m.

In "Gulliver’s Travels," Jonathan Swift used the absurd war between Lilliput and Blefuscu — fought over which end of an egg to crack — as a way to expose how...

Leo Grassens: Why America must uphold the Geneva Conventions — and what we risk by abandoning them (guest opinion)

April 8, 2026 at 6:35 a.m.

How can one person alone, Donald Trump, be allowed “to blow up and obliterate the energy and drinking water structures for 92 million people,” the current population of Iran? These...

Leo Grassens: Focus on current officials, not relics of the past (guest opinion)

March 11, 2026 at 6:38 a.m.

Cal Thomas’ latest column attacking Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton raises serious issues about accountability, honesty, and sexual misconduct. Those topics deserve scrutiny — of everyone in public life. But...

Leo Grassens: Facing the inevitable — What are we waiting for? (guest opinion)

February 14, 2026 at 6:24 a.m.

Donald J. Trump’s rise from New York real estate heir to U.S. president is one of the most disruptive political stories in modern American history. Yet beyond elections and scandals...

(Guest opinion) Leo Grassens: Those quoting the Bible must hold our leadership accountable

January 14, 2026 at 6:24 a.m.

This guest opinion responds to Don Overcash’s article, “Why Arrogance Destroys Trust, Influence.” Overcash stops where the conversation should begin. Quoting Scripture without applying it to real-world leadership is not...

(Guest opinion) Leo Grassens: When can we get back to normal?

December 30, 2025 at 6:23 a.m.

At what point does personal branding cross the line into something fundamentally unrecognizable as normal civic life? Today, the public sphere is saturated with the Trump name to an extent...

(Guest opinion) Leo Grassens: Platte River’s Integrated Resource Plan is the best compromise to reach goals

December 13, 2025 at 6:45 a.m.

I appreciate the League of Women Voters of Larimer County for their concern about the environment. As a climate activist with an engineering background — and with no professional or...

Leo Grassens: We need more on board for Loveland’s sustainability efforts

January 27, 2024 at 6:00 a.m.

I wrote about this topic more than a month ago, and since then, many have asked about progress. On Jan. 2, City Councilmember Laura Light-Kovacs asked to generate a “scorecard”...

Leo Grassens: Loveland needs more emphasis on sustainability, climate change

December 20, 2023 at 6:30 a.m.

I would like the city of Loveland to become more active when it comes to sustainability and climate change. Loveland does a lot of things well: We have one of...

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