Author: The Aurora Sentinel

Republican victory speeches after a barely successful health care vote in the House this week were grandiose, but what President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders said was actually delusional, deceptive or  outright lies. Like most of America, we were desperately hoping Congress would offer something that did what Obamacare isn’t doing: making health care…

Republican victory speeches after a barely successful health care vote in the House this week were grandiose, but what President Donald Trump and other GOP leaders said was actually delusional, deceptive or outright lies. Like most of America, we were desperately hoping Congress would offer something that did what Obamacare isn’t doing: making health care…

The healthcare fight in Washington D.C. continues as a prolonged saga with little clarity as to when progress will be made. Meanwhile, Coloradans are facing the realities of rapidly rising health care costs with little relief in sight. At the end of the month, however, our representatives in Congress do have the option to make…

Everyone seems to agree — even politicians who almost never do — that Rene Lima-Marin shouldn’t be in prison, get him out of there. A huge group of often combative and polarized Colorado legislators, who barely agree on what day of the week it is, have unanimously decided that wrongly imprisoned Lima-Marin should be freed.…

Despite the damage done to Colorado by spiteful partisan politics and obstinacy from the state’s far-right conservatives, it’s time to take any port in this endless and dangerous political storm. A bipartisan effort to end the state’s inane argument over its hospital provider fee is far from being a good solution, but it’s the only…

This is where the reality hits the road, Colorado. We must raise taxes to fix the state’s failing and overwhelmed transportation infrastructure or suffer in ways we haven’t even imagined. Sound dire? It is. Actually, the lack of lanes, crumbling bridges and dilapidated roads were dire about 10 years ago across the state, and especially…