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From Colfax to City Hall, the high cost of Referendum 310 | PODIUM
By Phil Guerin For more than 30 years, I’ve owned and operated Myxed Up Creations on East Colfax Avenue. My family’s small business has seen it all — recessions, COVID shutdowns, endless construction, and the rising costs of living that makes it harder every year…
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It’s always in the details | BIDLACK
09/29/2025 | 0
One of the many things I enjoy about writing for Colorado Politics is the near-total freedom my kindly editors give me (Ed: what’s that now?). As a result, I have kind of settled into a comfortable niche, wherein I can comment on big things happening,…
A voice trying to pull us back from the brink | Vince Bzdek
09/29/2025 | 0
By Vince Bzdek Two weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah, it’s worth noting what didn’t happen, especially in Utah. “I want you to look at how Utahans reacted,” Republican Gov. Spencer Cox said after the suspect was caught. “There was no rioting. There…
Important decisions made but long way to go for Front Range passenger rail | LOEVY
09/27/2025 | 0
We already have a good idea of what proposed future passenger train service up and down the Front Range corridor of Colorado might be like. Fast trains could run from Pueblo to Colorado Springs to Castle Rock to Littleton to downtown Denver to Boulder to…
Op Ed
Taiwan, Colorado are economic, strategic partners | OPINION
09/23/2025 | 0
By Debbie Huang In an increasingly unstable world free democracies are faced with growing challenges, not the least of which are “grey zone” tactics employed by authoritarian regimes which seek to undermine the economies and institutions of free nations and erode the rules-based international order. …
Legislature set renters up to fail with misguided change to income requirements | OPINION
09/05/2025 | 0
By Erica Sanchez It is no secret families across Colorado are struggling to pay rent. While anti-growth policies have continued to drive up the costs of all housing across the state, our elected leaders have desperately tried to pursue new policies to keep people in…
From pause to possibility — Colorado can lead on AI | OPINION
09/05/2025 | 0
By Loren Furman and Brittany Morris Saunders The recent delay of Colorado’s AI Act (Senate Bill 205) is not a setback. It is an opportunity to get AI right in Colorado. Rather than starting over, this pause gives lawmakers, businesses and consumer advocates a chance…
Feedback
Lawyers must stop weaponizing the courts | FEEDBACK
09/30/2025 | 0
When Colorado Supreme Court Justice William W. Hood III told lawyers last week they have a duty to intervene if they see a colleague struggling, he was right. Too often, attorneys hesitate to act when they notice cognitive decline, intoxication or untreated stress among their…
Faceoff
Autonomous, ailing individuals deserve freedom to choose death terms | POINT
04/05/2024 | 0
Lisa LaBriola As a society, we pride ourselves on championing individual autonomy, upholding human dignity and advocating for compassion in times of suffering. Yet, when it comes to end-of-life decisions, we often fall short of those ideals. The debate surrounding medical aid in dying (MAID)…
Assisted suicide should give us pause | COUNTERPOINT
04/05/2024 | 0
Sage Naumann In multiple states, and across Europe, we are witnessing an abandonment of a culture of life. Assisted suicide is only the latest indicator of this shift, and its wide adoption should give us serious pause. Admittedly, the libertarian portion of my brain is…
The Podium
From Colfax to City Hall, the high cost of Referendum 310 | PODIUM
09/30/2025 | 0
By Phil Guerin For more than 30 years, I’ve owned and operated Myxed Up Creations on East Colfax Avenue. My family’s small business has seen it all — recessions, COVID shutdowns, endless construction, and the rising costs of living that makes it harder every year…
State oil-and-gas regulators need better data | PODIUM
09/23/2025 | 0
By Renee Millard Chacon Commerce City unnecessarily suffers under what we call “cumulative impacts” from many sources of polluted air, water and climate pollution. What is choking my community today harms us all because of immoral decisions from unsustainable industries. Sandwiched between highways, surrounded by…
Polis should take a page out of Alaska’s playbook | PODIUM
09/12/2025 | 0
One of the objectives of the recently concluded special session of the Colorado General Assembly was to address an estimated $800 million budget shortfall. Toward accomplishing this, the legislature passed a series of measures including the removal of some business tax credits, elimination of certain…
Roundtable
COVER STORY: ROUND TABLE | Toward a post-pandemic session — but not yet
01/10/2021 | 0
While progress is well underway in the battle against COVID-19 in Colorado, the legislative session that convenes Wednesday is still very much in the thick of it. Even the session itself is kicking off only in truncated form to attend to some basics before taking…
Greg Brophy: A double-dare to legislative Dems
01/10/2021 | 0
Greg Brophy With complete control of the building (and all of its extensions), the Democrats on both the first and second floors of the State Capitol might find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Never in modern times have there been so many…
Tracy Kraft-Tharp: ‘Balance will be required’
01/10/2021 | 0
Tracy Kraft-Tharp The 2021 legislative session is going to be overshadowed by COVID again this year. Within this shadow lies the opportunity to demonstrate the positive role of government during such times requiring stern and invasive public health policies and those policies’ direct impacts on…
Daneya Esgar: ‘No one gets left behind’
01/10/2021 | 0
Daneya Esgar The word of the year for 2020 could very well have been “unprecedented.” While I’m sure many Coloradans could think of some more choice words to describe the year, that’s the one that comes to mind most often for me. So much of…
Matt Soper: ‘What ought to happen…but won’t’
01/10/2021 | 0
Matt Soper The 2021 legislative session will begin in unprecedented waters. After the swearing in of members, the legislature will then recess until Feb. 16 in an effort to avoid members contracting COVID-19. There appears to be more politics than science surrounding this delay decision….
Kerry Donovan: Work together, emerge stronger
01/10/2021 | 0
Kerry Donovan For many families, the last nine months have been about just getting by; it’s time for legislators to start thinking about what comes next. Looking ahead, I’m eager to expand on some of our most recent legislative accomplishments, and to tackle the challenges…
Paul Lundeen: What will the pandemic teach us?
01/10/2021 | 0
Paul Lundeen There are few things like a life-threatening crisis to clarify your perspective. The pandemic, the choices politicians made on our behalf, and the consequences of that combination give us a chance at near 20/20 vision. We just need to put on our pandemic…
Yadira Caraveo: We cannot go ‘back to normal’
01/10/2021 | 0
Yadira Caraveo As our state continues to struggle with rising cases, the COVID-19 pandemic has only highlighted the deep structural issues that impact our ability to respond to public health emergencies. While many of the problems we faced last year stem from the Trump administration’s…
SHELTER AMID COVID | Do more to stem evictions
08/23/2020 | 0
Carmen Medrano For most families, their single largest living expense is housing. In Colorado, rents continue to rise as wages have remained mostly stagnant. Many of our elected officials in Colorado have been working diligently to ensure that a portion of new housing built in…
SHELTER AMID COVID | There’s no eviction ‘tsunami’
08/23/2020 | 0
Drew Hamrick The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on Colorado’s housing challenges, with many good people coming up with bad ideas. It’s important that the policy prescriptions we adopt in Colorado aren’t knee-jerk reactions. In the short term, the best way to help renters…
SHELTER AMID COVID | Address housing inequality
08/23/2020 | 0
Peter Wall At the start of March, the metro-Denver residential real estate spring market was showing signs of being one of the strongest on record. When COVID-19 hit and ensuing shutdowns took effect, the market halted for a brief window of time but almost immediately…
SHELTER AMID COVID | A Colorado Politics Roundtable on the current housing challenge
08/23/2020 | 0
Did you “shelter in place” this spring? Probably not for long if the threat of eviction was looming. And not at all if there was no place to call home to begin with. It was one of the troubling ironies of the pandemic of 2020:…