Author: Ken Toltz
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Toltz: Nothing progressive about letting giant chains sell full-strength beer, wine
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My friend Laura Chapin wrote recently of her support as a progressive for changing Colorado’s law to allow the sale of full-strength beer and wine in grocery stores. Unfortunately, there is nothing in the least bit progressive in allowing some of America’s largest companies, including Walmart, Safeway and Kroger, to stock wine and beer after…
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Toltz: Stop Buck’s ‘Guns for Felons’ legislation
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Nearly everyone would agree that convicted, violent criminals should not be able to purchase guns. Everyone, that is, except for first-term U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, who is now advancing NRA-supported legislation to reinstate a federal “guns for felons” program that has been shut down for decades. Congressman Buck, a former Weld County district attorney, recently…
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Question: Will we let bullies with guns intimidate us into acquiescence or silence?
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What will Coloradans do now? On this appropriately gray, rainy day political leaders and public safety citizen activists are pondering what to do in the wake of last week’s recalls of two Democratic state senators, solely due to their votes to make Colorado safer from gun violence. Will bullies with guns intimidate us into acquiescence…