Kelly Sloan: "It’s becoming difficult to keep track of all of the bad ideas being tossed about this year, but among the worst would have to be the ill-conceived decision by the Denver Public Schools board to do away with school resource officers."

Kelly Sloan: "The cumulative effect of all these bills is rather like a tornado coming along and tearing down the house you were just starting to rebuild after getting hit by a hurricane."

Kelly Sloan: "It is all but universally recognized that the death of George Floyd at the knee of a (now fired and arrested) policeman in Minneapolis last week was a travesty."

Paula Noonan: "The 2020 General Assembly ended with a bang, not a whimper.  Legislators followed voting trends from previous years, in that Democrats from both chambers voted mostly in synch and Republicans, especially in the Senate, hit a full range of conservative to moderate targets."

Paula Noonan: "Air quality along the Front Range is affected now by smoke from wild fires to our west. Southwest Colorado is under alert due to lightning-caused fires near Durango."

Paula Noonan: "What a mess this nation is in. Except for the coronavirus, it’s a result of struggles of our own making. Shouldn’t 2020, the very beginning of a new millennium, become the time when we vow to change how we treat each other?"

Hal Bidlack: "The Gardner campaign is no doubt keeping a careful record of all the negative things being flung back and forth for use in their own fall campaign. Expect to see ads coming soon from the Republicans attacking whomever wins the nomination on the 30th that include the words of these attack ads. That’s both a shame and a mistake. We have two very good men running; we don’t need the negative attacks."

Hal Bidlack: "Back in 1918, a midterm congressional election took place during a flu pandemic that swept the nation and the world."

Hal Bidlack: "Way back in the founding days of our great nation, the men constructing a new nation out of whole cloth were faced with a number of challenges about the proper role of government."

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Jimmy Sengenberger: "All eyes, ears and passions have turned to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis — killed at the knee of a police officer, aided and abetted by three colleagues who watched him extinguish life from an unarmed black man.  Attention is focused on the peaceful protests and the violent riots that erupted nationwide, including in Denver."

Jimmy Sengenberger: "I am the rare Colorado conservative who has given Gov. Jared Polis some credit for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.  I’ve said for several weeks that his performance has been superior to other Democrat governors, most notably Gretchen the Terrible of Michigan."

Miller Hudson: "If white Americans’ daily experience with police approximated the violence familiar to communities of color, I suspect their response would weigh heavily toward revenge."

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Miller Hudson: "The public admiration for whistleblowers and those who tilt with windmills proves fleeting and offers small solace for the broken lances and ruptured friendships."

Jon Caldara: "The late, great football coach Bum Philips said, 'There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.'"

Jon Caldara: "The issue of reparations for the sin of American slavery will work its way into the national debate this election year."

Jon Caldara: "The police should be held to the same laws they enforce upon us. They are not."