Author: The Aurora Sentinel

I don’t blame Congressman Mike Coffman and dozens of Republicans just like him for wanting to avoid an unflattering spectacle by subjecting themselves to town meetings focusing on the fate of Obamacare. Coffman was unceremoniously sandbagged at just such a meeting in January at an Aurora Public Library. At what was supposed to be just…

With so many distressing things happening in the White House and Congress as an impetuous, President Donald Trump and a giddy Republican Party take complete control of the country, Trump’s nomination for the U.S. Supreme Court isn’t an issue. Trump has nominated Colorado appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch for the high court’s long-vacant ninth seat,…

With so much controversy in Washington, it’s difficult for the Senate and the public to settle on what’s important and what’s critical as the Trump administration comes on line. But preventing Betsy DeVos from becoming Secretary of Education is job one for the Senate tomorrow. DeVos has long had a huge role in pushing Michigan’s…

The Trump administration hadn’t even gotten a handle on “alternative facts” and lying, and now the nascent government is losing ground to sheer ineptitude and malfeasance creating real-life crises for people across the globe and right here in Aurora. President Donald Trump and his top staff started out his tenure being caught in a series…

Just days into President Donald Trump’s new administration after the customary peaceful transfer of power, the country finds itself in an unprecedented quandary: The president and at least some of his top staff are habitual liars. It has to end immediately. If Trump is unwilling to stop himself and his staff from lying, members of Congress,…

OK, Congressman Mike Coffman, we’re listening. Amidst the half-hearted and opportunistic criticism of Donald Trump and the proffered messages that you will support minorities, the middle class and all those scared to death that insurance companies will once again rule our health care unchecked, you made a long list of promises. Congressman, you promised to…

If your teen is looking pretty tan this winter and hasn’t been outside to account for it, your son or daughter doesn’t live in states like Texas, North Carolina and Louisiana. Those states, despite being bastions of places that shun government regulation in general, have sense enough to ban minors from using tanning beds. Colorado…