Author: Ty Winter
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Family-owned funeral homes shouldn’t pay for Return to Nature’s failures | OPINION
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Ty Winter When I am not in Denver at the Capitol advocating for Colorado’s House District 47 I’m together with my wife and mother operating a third-generation family funeral establishment. My grandfather started by washing cars and working his way up, licensed by the state of Colorado in 1943. He retired at the age of…
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Prop. HH drafted in secret — deserves a ‘no’ vote | OPINION
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Ty Winter In a press conference last spring, Gov. Jared Polis pitched Proposition HH as a long-term solution reducing property taxes for commercial and residential property, allowing people to stay in their homes and funding public services, like education. The language in the speech sounded familiar; he had alluded to this bill during his State…
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Polis turns his back on Colorado agriculture | OPINION
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Ty Winter Last week, Gov. Jared Polis gave his State of the State address before a joint session of the General Assembly and to all Coloradans around the state. As I and other rural legislators listened to his speech, we couldn’t help but notice something so significant to our state barely received more than a…