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Graduated income tax proposal is a flat tax in disguise | Jon Caldara
Jon Caldara
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Updated 3 days ago
“Youth is wasted on all the wrong people.” That’s one of my favorite lines from “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The older I get, the less it sounds like a joke. Every generation inherits victories it did not win. Young Americans...
AI optimism vs. anxiety — podcasters debate this every night | Tom Cronin
Tom Cronin
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Updated 1 day ago
President Donald Trump, CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer and entrepreneurial “accelerationists” celebrate the AI revolution and the infrastructure data-center build-out. Cramer recently gushed, “I like data centers so much that I wish I lived in one.” Trump criticized any community...
Parenting from prison: Inmates hope to be present in their children’s lives, while physically absent
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 5 hours ago
The room was decorated with balloons, the tables sparking bright with colors as the smell of pizza and cake wafted through the air. As did music. This was, after all, a father-daughter dance. Except this was not a typical father-daughter...
The dissonance of an American Jew thinking about Israel | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
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Updated 3 days ago
The Jewish High Holidays will soon be upon us. The third anniversary of Oct. 7 will then quickly follow. Three weeks later, Israeli voters will head to the polls to elect all 120 members of its parliament, the Knesset and...
Blue-collar support trends highlighted GOP gains among rank‑and‑file workers | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 4 days ago
Forty-five years ago this week: Kathy Oatis of the Colorado AFL-CIO’s Committee on Political Education said that organized labor had a negative image with the American voter. “I don’t think the country is against us,” said Oatis. “I think the...
Colorado Politics Calendar Sept. 7-13
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 4 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,...
Colorado House ethics committee issues ‘stern letter’ to Democrat over caucus funds mismanagement
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 10 hours ago
The Colorado House ethics committee on Friday voted unanimously to issue a “stern letter” to Rep. Mandy Lindsay, D-Aurora, regarding her mismanagement of House Democratic caucus funds. The committee further voted to request that Lindsay resign as Democratic Caucus co-chair...
Manny Rutinel resigns from Colorado legislature to focus on congressional race
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 2 days ago
The Democrat running for a key congressional race — whose outcome could decide the balance of power in the U.S. House — on Friday resigned from the Colorado legislature. State Rep. Manny Rutinel is turning his attention to his campaign...
Appeals court confirms Colorado judges can compel electronic records from out of state
Michael Karlik
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Updated 10 hours ago
Colorado’s second-highest court clarified on Thursday that judges are empowered to compel out-of-state companies to produce electronic records under state law. El Paso County jurors convicted Mischa Jargowsky on three counts of money laundering and one violation of Colorado’s organized...
Federal judge extends block on Trump executive order seeking to limit mail voting in the midterms
The Associated Press
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Updated 2 days ago
A federal judge on Friday extended her prohibition against the U.S. Postal Service implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail voting during the midterms, putting another major obstacle in the way of the administration as the first...