Author: Kelly Sloan

Kelly Sloan Back in 2016 the City of Denver embarked on a grand endeavor called “Vision Zero,” a project with the laudable goal of reducing vehicular deaths to zero. A great deal of planning and micromanagement of roads and driving behavior went into the effort. Five years after commencing the enterprise, traffic fatalities in the…

Kelly Sloan Last week Taiwan’s ambassador to the United States, Bi-Khim Hsiao, made a trip to Denver. As amiable, well-educated, and well-informed as you would expect a diplomat of her stature to be, Ambassador Hsiao joined a delegation from Taiwan, led by the nation’s Political Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Mon-Chi Lio, attending the annual…

Kelly Sloan President Joe Biden is finally coming to the realization that the current inflation levels are not a temporary blip, as he tried telling everyone last summer, and are actually a serious and lingering problem. Enough so that the President took to the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal earlier this week with…

Kelly Sloan Any time an event occurs which ruptures the fabric of civilized life so grotesquely as what happened in Uvalde, Texas earlier this week, it is instinctive to seek answers. It seems that many in the public light are rather hoping that the dust settles exclusively on guns. I am not an absolutist on…

Kelly Sloan Chalk this one up to the geopolitical application of the aphorism “better late than never.” This Wednesday, both Finland and Sweden formally submitted their applications for NATO membership. It marks a rather stunning shift for the two Scandinavian nation’s which have long harbored a policy of official neutrality. Even throughout the Cold War,…

Kelly Sloan Few things can serve as a catalyst for changing a particular policy direction like an international crisis – except for a domestic economic crisis. A key part of President Joe Biden’s energy policy ran straight into the middle of both.  It didn’t take Biden very long, after setting up shop in the Oval Office,…

Kelly Sloan And just like that, nothing that may be happening in eastern Ukraine matters anymore. The fentanyl crisis is a sideshow. Even Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter no longer seems all that important. No, the only event of any gravity is the report, by way of a leak to Politico, that the Supreme Court…

Kelly Sloan I’m willing to wager that if 20 years ago you were to suggest two decades hence Disney World would be at the center of a controversy involving a law concerning inappropriate sexual instruction to kindergarteners, and the State of Florida was preparing to pull Disney’s special district status, you would be accused of…

Kelly Sloan It is not very often that word of a federal judge’s decision makes its way throughout the general populace with the speed of celebrity gossip. But Monday’s federal court decision striking down the mask mandate on all public transportation – most notably airplanes – certainly did just that. I’m not sure the last time a…

Kelly Sloan The most important bit of economic news this week is grim but not especially surprising – the release Tuesday of the consumer-price index, more colloquially known as the inflation report, was as gloomy as most had predicted. The index rose 1.2% in March, the highest since the current inflationary period set in; even…