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Why I voted for LL and MM — and you should too | BIDLACK
It is no great insight to suggest we are as divided today as we were in, say, 1860 or even scarier, 1933. I admit, I take some satisfaction out of the rapid slide in the popularity of a man who would be king, but it…
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Why I voted for LL and MM — and you should too | BIDLACK
10/21/2025 | 0
It is no great insight to suggest we are as divided today as we were in, say, 1860 or even scarier, 1933. I admit, I take some satisfaction out of the rapid slide in the popularity of a man who would be king, but it…
Peace in our time? SLOAN
10/21/2025 | 0
The images emerging from Israel this past week were heartwarming, the return of the 20 Israeli hostages who remained alive after just more than two brutal years in the clutches of Hamas. The ceasefire arrangement that effectuated the release was a remarkable accomplishment, and to…
Hickenlooper, Bennet give Polis a pass on Medicaid cuts | WADHAMS
10/20/2025 | 0
A day cannot go by without Colorado’s self-entitled U.S. senators loudly condemning President Donald Trump’s reforms of the Medicaid program that go into effect in 2027. But Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper seem oblivious to the very real and substantive Medicaid cuts that their fellow…
Op Ed
When politics threaten our classrooms, teachers must stand up | OPINION
10/02/2025 | 0
By Kevin Vick On Wednesday, Oct. 8, educators in Colorado Springs School District 11 will walk out of their classrooms for a one-day strike. This decision was not made lightly. I’ve been an educator in the Colorado Springs community for more than 20 years, and…
Colorado needs to take action on skyrocketing drug prices | OPINION
10/02/2025 | 0
By Sophia Hennessy The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most opaque industries in the country. Drugs are arbitrarily priced, profits are maximized, industry players point fingers at each other to deflect blame and patients suffer at the expense of corporate greed. In 2024, more…
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. …
Feedback
Lawyers must stop weaponizing the courts | FEEDBACK
09/30/2025 | 0
By Judi Atwood 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…
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:…