March 06, 2023 11:16 AM UTC

Farewell, Voyageur

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• by: Colorado Pols

As some readers of Colorado Pols are aware, we lost an active member of our community recently. Bob Ewegen, who commented here for years under the name “Voyageur,” died on February 21 at the age of 77 after a battle with cancer.

We waited to post something about Bob’s passing until his obituary was made public. Ewegen spent 36 years at The Denver Post; he retired in 2008 after serving as an assistant editorial page editor, where he wrote many of the newspaper’s political endorsements over the years.

Ewegen’s daughter, Misty Ewegen, asked that we pass along this note to the Colorado Pols community:

I am writing to inform your members of the death of my father, Bob Ewegen, who wrote here under the name Voyageur. He greatly enjoyed interacting with the members on this site and I have no way of interacting with them myself.

Thank you for the years of joy ColoradoPols brought my dad. He loved it here.

– Misty

You can read more about Bob at Caring Bridge or Legacy.com.

Colorado Pols began as a blog and a source of political news, and while it continues to serve these roles, the website has also become a community for many individuals. The “Pols Meetups” that have been organized from time to time have always been put together entirely by our readers — Bob included — so that they could meet each other in person. This is not something that we would have forseen, but we are proud to have provided a place for these interactions to take place.

We will miss Bob’s thoughtful commentary and wit at Colorado Pols. May he rest in peace.