Author: Bob Beauprez
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POINT | Coloradans need property tax relief
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Bob Beauprez This year’s ballot not only has important school board and city council races on it, but it also has statewide ballot measures that could have a lasting impact on all of us. One of those measures is Proposition 120, which would cut property taxes across the state. Also read: COUNTERPOINT | Prop 120…
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THE PODIUM | Landmark conservation fund is vital to Colorado’s great outdoors
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Bob Beauprez Have Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C. lost the ability to work together for the good of the nation? It’s a fair question given the events of the past few weeks, when new levels of infighting and partisan gameplaying shut down much of the federal government over the holidays. Thankfully, amid the recent…
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THE PODIUM: Someone tell the president, ‘Silence is golden’
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Recently, Colorado Politics published my commentary lauding the many noteworthy achievements of the new Trump administration in only the president’s first year in office. That praise is justified and hopefully there is a great deal more good to come from our 45th president and the Republican majority in Congress. However, as we have repeatedly witnessed with…
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THE PODIUM: Donald Trump scored an impressive conservative record in 2017
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A great many, even among those who voted for Donald Trump, openly questioned his conservative bona fides during the 2016 campaign. Some of his most ardent supporters (see Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham) quickly migrated from being the self-appointed enforcers of “Principled Conservatism” within the Republican Party to an unqualified endorsement of the new “Trumpian…
