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Kelly Sloan
This special session, lead us not into temptation… | SLOAN
The special legislative session is now underway, the assigned task list for which includes measures to deal with the roughly (another) $1 billion hole in the budget. The reasons offered for the 11-digit deficit depend a great deal on one’s political affiliation: Democrats, rather conveniently,…
Paula Noonan
What does it mean to be a man, and to be a woman, today? | NOONAN
Richard Reeves, a Brit expert on masculinity, investigates what it means to be a man today. He is commenting on the number of men under 40 who are scrambling to find their masculinity and humanity in the face of women’s advances into the world of…
Deep dives on the records of gubernatorial front-runners Bennet, Weiser | NOONAN
Updated 1 month ago
Hal Bidlack
Western water worries | BIDLACK
Way back in 1998, when I was on a temporary assignment to the National Security Council at the White House, I was asked to write the first draft of a statement on the effect of climate change on national defense. I could bore you with…
Jimmy Sengenberger
SENGENBERGER | Polis parody captures Hollywood’s nostalgia play
Jimmy Sengenberger These days, Hollywood seems to take every opportunity for throwbacks to all those “oldies but goodies,” playing into nostalgia. It’s super easy, maybe even lazy — but it works brilliantly. At Disney’s D23 Expo, the entertainment giant released a teaser bound to excite Peyton…
Miller Hudson
Trump’s EPA edict illustrates why he can’t convince Coloradans | HUDSON
Miller Hudson You only have to look at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent edict to Colorado forbidding us from proceeding with the scheduled closure of coal-fired electric generation plants to understand why the MAGA mindset fails to win support here at the ballot box….
Can Dem guv aspirants avert crisis, find realistic remedy to TABOR trouble? | HUDSON
Updated 2 months ago
Jon Caldara
Bare thighs and double standards under the Gold Dome | CALDARA
Fashion sense? Oh, I got it. After all, 98% of my wardrobe was proudly purchased at Costco. And the ladies dig a man who’s dripping in Kirkland-labeled couture. They sense the money, the power. Another man who knows fashion is former state Rep. Ryan Armagost….
Rachel Gabel
Catch-a-Calf stories illustrate the dignity of hard work in Colorado | GABEL
I’m currently researching and writing a history of the National Western Stock Show’s Catch-a-Calf program to mark its 90th year. The program began in 1935 with a group of boys who entered the fat steer show that year. Among them were Joe Beauprez of Boulder,…
Sean Duffy
‘Let’s make 2025 the Year of the American Man’ | DUFFY
Sean Duffy American society needs to man up. In the election just concluded, the yawning chasm between the candidate choices of men and women — particularly younger Americans — received overdue attention. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); Polls taken this fall showed a 53% gap between young…
Dennis Maes
So much potential — and such a tragic loss | MAES
Dennis Maes During my 40-year legal career as an attorney and judge I was privy to numerous violent and negligent acts that often resulted in death or maiming. The victims included the most vulnerable children, including infants, and the elderly who were robbed of the…
Dick Wadhams
Denver’s shameful smear of the salvation army | WADHAMS
No good deed should go unpunished. Or at least that seems to be the mantra of the City of Denver. Despite all the rosy declarations of statistical victory, Denver is still mired in crime and homelessness. Just ask the tens of thousands of people who will no…
George Brauchler
The ballot is our only path to law and order in Colorado | BRAUCHLER
George Brauchler Criminal justice was on the ballot this past Tuesday. Coloradans showed strong support for public safety-related matters and rejected our legislature’s decade-long move to prioritize criminals over public safety and law enforcement. The 2024 legislative session has again proven there is a disconnect…
Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy
Our suggestions on the 2024 Colorado state ballot issues | CRONIN & LOEVY
Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Here are our views for the 2024 Colorado state issues. We summarize each proposed measure, then indicate our personal vote and finally offer our prediction of what the public vote will be: Amendment G: Modify Property Tax Exemption for Veterans…