Author: Janelle Dam

America’s anti-vaccination movement may have moved to pets. The Brooklyn Paper website reported this week that veterinarians in the New York City borough have been seeing an increase in pet owners who don’t want to vaccinate their pets against diseases. Although the fact-checking website Snopes points out the original story is vague, based on “speculative…

When Colorado officials drafted a water plan for the state’s future, it contemplated that this state will continue to experience heavy population growth – especially on the northern Front Range – for several decades. Clearly, under current levels of water storage and usage, there won’t be enough available water for all users when the state’s…

Both parties have proved Congress and the president cannot give us a health care system that works. Let’s try fixing it among the states. We have nothing to lose. No one has to convince Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat who has been working with Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich to form a bipartisan group…

How bad was Fremont County Sheriff Jim Beicker’s news conference last week? Well, it’s not a good sign when the best news you have to offer is that the latest group of your employees to face disciplinary action didn’t actually break any laws. That’s a pretty low hurdle for a law enforcement agency to clear.…

John McCain is the toast of sane America this weekend, and rightfully so. Without McCain’s thumbs down on the U.S. Senate floor early Friday morning, a piece of legislation Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham called “a fraud” just hours earlier could have become law. It is important to note that this is not a partisan analysis.…

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke visited Rocky Mountain National Park last weekend with what he heralded as help for the national parks. He announced he wants to allocate $53 million toward maintenance needs in national parks, including $200,000 for the alluvial fan trail in Rocky, destroyed in the 2013 flood. But in 2016, Rocky Mountain National…

In nearly 4,000 words, left-leaning Politico tried to reignite the tired old media mantra that Colorado Springs represents failures of “right-wing” politics and running government like a business. It even dredged up the “Evangelical Vatican” label, which went out with the passé “People’s Republic of Boulder” slight. Politico’s “The Short, Unhappy Life of a Libertarian Paradise” essay…

Peter Suderman, an editor at Reason Magazine, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times last week imagining what a Republican health-care plan might look like if Republicans ever got serious about designing one. Reason defines itself as a Libertarian magazine, so its prescriptions are unlikely to match up well with the goal of universal coverage advocated…

The City Council and City Manager Sam Azad will hire a new police chief soon to replace retiring Chief Luis Velez. And the city has declared that the next chief will have to live within the city limits – as do all city department heads now. Frankly, we think that requirement is parochial and unnecessary.…