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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…
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What does it mean to be a man, and to be a woman, today? | NOONAN
09/04/2025 | 0
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…
Western water worries | BIDLACK
09/02/2025 | 0
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…
Catch-a-Calf stories illustrate the dignity of hard work in Colorado | GABEL
09/01/2025 | 0
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,…
Op Ed
Bipartisan PBM reform bill is major win for Colorado patients | OPINION
08/22/2025 | 0
By Victoria Vicory Managing a chronic health condition isn’t easy. For hundreds of thousands of Coloradans, it means daily medication, careful monitoring, regular appointments, and constant worry about how to afford it all. For too long, the high cost of prescription drugs has forced patients into…
Even in a deficit, Planned Parenthood gets special treatment | OPINION
08/21/2025 | 0
You know our Colorado legislators are beholden to a special-interest lobby when they may choose to forego federal dollars during a budget crunch to fund their client’s interests. Who might that be? The abortion lobby and Planned Parenthood. The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB) withdrew Medicaid…
Taking energy choice to the ballot | OPINION
08/21/2025 | 0
When the legislature doesn’t listen, people go to the ballot. And that’s exactly where energy choice is heading in Colorado. With a special session starting this week to address challenges to the state’s budget, it is odd energy policy is not part of the deliberations….
Feedback
Legislative Democrats deranged to disarm Colorado citizenry | FEEDBACK
03/12/2024 | 0
Removing the only thing that could stop a killer, an armed and trained person with a gun on the scene, again proves the huge-majority democrats in Colorado government are willing to sacrifice innocent children and staff at schools to injury and death just to further…
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
Colorado at a crossroads with climate idealism or pragmatic policy | PODIUM
09/04/2025 | 0
States are the laboratories of democracy, and California’s experiment in climate policymaking is producing results Colorado should avoid repeating. In California, political leaders are reckoning with the unintended, but predictable, consequences of unrealistic climate regulation. As energy demand grows at a record pace, the Golden…
Putting people first in farming | PODIUM
08/27/2025 | 0
By Joseph Petrocco Colorado family farms are resilient. They routinely survive droughts, floods, crushing hailstorms, pest infestations, price uncertainty and even low profit margins. Yet, there is another challenge that may hinder their survival. Policy creation by legislators who mean well but don’t understand farming…
Colorado’s AI law risks slowing state’s innovation economy | PODIUM
08/20/2025 | 0
By Jon Nordmark Colorado made national headlines last year as the first state in the country to pass a comprehensive artificial intelligence law: Senate Bill 24-205, the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act. It was framed as a consumer protection measure, introducing wide-ranging requirements for businesses that…
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:…