Author: Kent Thiry
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Turn blueprint into action with the Outdoors Opportunities Act | OPINION
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Nearly a year has passed since Gov. Jared Polis, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Colorado’s Outdoor Recreation Industry Office and other key partners finalized the visionary Colorado Outdoor Strategy, establishing the framework to ensure Colorado’s outdoor recreation and conservation legacy for generations to come. Now it’s time for action. Action…
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As Colorado’s soon-to-be majority, independent voters will determine state’s political future | PODIUM
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Colorado, and Coloradans, value independence. Now that we’ve flipped the page on a new election year calendar, we will soon discover just how much we value our Independents as well. Unaffiliated or, as they prefer to be known, “independent” voters already outnumber Democrats and Republicans combined in Colorado. Soon they will cross the 50% threshold…
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Voters, democracy suffer from ugly mid-decade gerrymandering | OPINION
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As Republicans’ mid-decade gerrymandering efforts push our increasingly fraught democracy through its latest stress test, it raises the very real question: do desperate times require desperate measures in response — as California voters decided by passing a gerrymandering ballot proposal this November? Although exceptions to the long-established tradition of post-census redistricting are exceedingly rare, the…