Author: Paul Lundeen
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State Senate GOPers will fight for relief for Coloradans in 2024 | OPINION
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Paul Lundeen The people of Colorado are crying out for relief: Relief from burdensome taxes. Relief from overwhelming regulations choking small businesses and chasing big employers out of the state. Relief from a growing reality that state government is telling people how to live and what to believe. Since the Democrats took complete control several…
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The facade of Prop HH is slipping — vote no! | OPINION
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Paul Lundeen Every other week for the past five years, Senate Republican leadership has had a standing meeting with Gov. Jared Polis and his staff. This has ensured an open line of communication we have always appreciated and one that has hopefully given the governor insight into how our senators and our constituents feel about…
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COUNTERPOINT | Focus on jobs and students
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Paul Lundeen The state legislature has the opportunity to turn the page on a troubled time and lead Colorado into better days when it reconvenes Tuesday. To do so while remaining vigilant about public health, it must focus on jobs and students. Also read: POINT | Pass legislation that stops the bleeding At the start…
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Paul Lundeen: What will the pandemic teach us?
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Paul Lundeen There are few things like a life-threatening crisis to clarify your perspective. The pandemic, the choices politicians made on our behalf, and the consequences of that combination give us a chance at near 20/20 vision. We just need to put on our pandemic glasses and see if we are willing to learn. None…
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Sex-ed bill goes way beyond biology — and gives parents no choice in the matter
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Paul Lundeen As school choice week wrapped up, a controversial education bill passed out of a House committee. The bill is called the Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education Act (HB19-1032). Legislators and our constituents are lining up predictably on either side of the bill, mostly along party lines. There are differences of opinion about what curriculum…
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BETTER SCHOOLS: PAUL LUNDEEN | Are we making the best use of our education dollars?
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Paul Lundeen Editor’s note: Colorado Politics presents “Which way to better Colorado schools?” We’re offering seven perspectives on improving education in the state. They are hurtling forward as the speed accelerates. The road has unpredictable twists, hills and turns. Our children, the hope of society, are strapped tightly in this flying vehicle. Yet its driver’s…
