The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Stop taking a knee
It’s time for professional football players to stop taking a knee during the national anthem.
Not because it’s unpatriotic. The Founding Fathers created a constitutional framework that explicitly allowed for tensions arising from the exercise of individual rights to contribute to a “more prefect union.”
The U.S. Constitution guarantees all Americans the right of free speech and peaceful protest. Civil disobedience has been a powerful tool for change in this country. For every veteran who claims that kneeling players dishonor the military who protect our flag, there’s another who says he or she served to protect the personal liberties enshrined in the Constitution.
The relevance of Watergate more than a half-century later | SONDERMANN
By Eric Sondermann
by-eric-sondermann@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 days ago
It was the scandal for which all other scandals are now named. In June 1972, a small group of Cuban burglars with high-level connections broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Those headquarters were located in the Watergate...
Wirth downplays Social Security disaster talk | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Forty-five years ago this week: “As time goes on,” said Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Wirth, of the 2nd Congressional District, “we are finding that the safety net, which was proposed earlier this year, has some very large holes in it,”...
Colorado Politics Calendar Aug. 10-16
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances,...
Democratic group aims Spanish-language TV ad at Gabe Evans in Colorado’s battleground 8th CD
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 hours ago
A national group tied to House Democratic leadership launched a six-figure Spanish-language TV ad in Colorado this week targeting Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans and the GOP’s signature budget legislation. The 30-second spot is part of $15 million in new...
Colorado School of Mines lands major share in Trump’s $100M mining-education plan
Thelma Grimes
thelma.grimes@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 13 hours ago
President Donald Trump on Friday named the Colorado School of Mines among roughly a dozen institutions that will share in a $100 million commitment “to train the next generation of American miners.” Paul Johnson, the university’s president, said he is...
Local party leaders, incoming judge among members of judicial performance commission that violated law
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 13 hours ago
A local Democratic leader and 2024 presidential elector. A legislative aide and leader in the Young Republicans. An incoming county court judge freshly appointed by the governor. They are among the eight members of the northeastern Colorado judicial performance commission...
Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking records from Colorado Democratic group
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 14 hours ago
A lawsuit seeking to obtain records from Democratic lawmakers affiliated with a caucus has been thrown out by a Denver District Court judge. On July 17, Judge Ericka Englert dismissed the April lawsuit filed by progressive activist Derrick Blanton, who...
DOJ official decries ‘nonsense’ in Jeffco schools at fundraising gala
Matt Kyle
matt.kyle@denvergazette.com
Updated 18 hours ago
Amid a legal battle between Jeffco Public Schools and the federal government, a Department of Justice official spoke at a fundraising gala and decried “crazy stuff” and “nonsense” in the school district. The gala was for Jeffco Kids First, an...
Colorado Springs mother Deborah Nicholls’ murder conviction overturned
Nick Smith
nick-smith@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
A Colorado Springs mother convicted in 2008 of murdering her three children in a house fire might get a new trial after a judge ruled that prosecutors withheld key evidence that could have impacted the jury’s verdict. Deborah Nicholls, whose...
Aurora Community College student journalist accuses college of ‘unconstitutional gag order’
Kyla Pearce
kyla.pearce@gazette.com
Updated 21 hours ago
An Aurora Community College student is accusing the college of putting an “unconstitutional gag order” on his student-run publication, saying the college banned it from publishing until students jumped through “countless bureaucratic hoops.” A college spokesperson said the college is...