Kelly Sloan: "It oughtn’t tie up a great deal of empirical resourcefulness to figure out that the recent policy attacks on the institutions of law enforcement – from de-funding, to officious arm-chair quarterbacking by oblivious city councils, to policies gravely limiting the cop’s ability to defend themselves – are taking a toll on an already dangerous and necessarily violent profession, resulting in alarming reductions in police ranks as both veteran and would-be officers decide the risk is simply not worth it."

Kelly Sloan: "In effect, the bill classifies a police officer's words as a physical use of force, equivalent to utilizing physical restraints, using a baton, deploying a taser, or discharging a sidearm."

Kelly Sloan: "The primary concern on the foreign policy front of a Biden administration was that it adumbrated a return to the chronically feckless foreign policy meandering of the Obama administration. That fear is on the verge of being realized in the current conflict between Israel and Hamas."

Paula Noonan: "With the state legislature winding up its work, our attention will move to redistricting Colorado’s Congressional and state House and Senate districts. A recent essay by GOP Rep. Colin Larson, HD-22 in south Jeffco, stated that the 2011 redistricting resulted in gerrymandered districts and that Democrats were responsible. This is revisionist history."

Paula Noonan: "After the 2022 session, when new districts are in play, it’s unknowable now as to which legislators will return to the Capitol. In other words, this is the second to the last session for this batch of legislators based on these districts to work these problems."

Peggy Noonan: "Colorado has over 200 nursing homes and about 700 assisted living facilities. They provide daily living and medical support for thousands of Colorado’s seniors. The COVID crisis hit these institutions hard."

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Hal Bidlack: Aurora, Colo. "is a delightful place to live. Unless, of course, you are a former felon that wants to serve in city government."

Hal Bidlack: "While I often differed with Warner on some, but not all, specific policies, I had great respect for him as the kind of honorable and trustworthy Republican with whom one could genuinely work."

Jimmy Sengenberger: "Make no mistake: While investigations must be completed, these allegations are serious.  Anderson isn’t just an 'activist.'  He is a member of the board of the state’s largest school district.  He is in a position of power and trust over the biggest part of DPS students’ lives: school."

Jimmy Sengenberger: "While these orders were intended to help struggling tenants during COVID-19 and thereby ensure fewer people living on the streets during a deadly pandemic, the government failed to account for two major consequences."

Jimmy Sengenberger: "While I concede I’m somewhat pleasantly surprised that Polis followed through on his pledge to let local communities take charge for the first time in over a year, and even more so that local counties and the Tri-County Health Department are loosening their grips, I’m not impressed."

Miller Hudson: "After 30 years of failed funding attempts, Rube Goldberg acolytes have conjured up another end run around TABOR spending restrictions. Or have they?"

Miller Hudson: "After decades of insistence on the value of tests, we should pause and ask why higher education institutions have so quickly concurred with their elimination. Could it be that in a world of student loans, higher education really isn’t concerned whether its students succeed? Both conservative and liberal observers have noted the reduction in legislative support for our public colleges and universities, successfully transferring the economic burden onto tuition."

Miller Hudson: "It pays to step back periodically and critically appraise who is saying what about whom in heated political debates."

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