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Kelly Sloan
Honor Kirk by keeping free speech free | SLOAN
I met Charlie Kirk twice, the second time over dinner, several years ago as he was still just starting out on what would become a spectacularly ascendent career in the polemical arena. I found him to be an especially bright, articulate, and ambitious young man,…
Paula Noonan
Educate Denver’s ‘nuanced’ critique of Denver schools lacks just that, endangers district | NOONAN
Educate Denver, a self-appointed Denver Public Schools Debbie Downer group that rarely finds anything positive in public education in Denver’s schools, has produced a “nuanced” commentary on DPS’s 2025 academic performance. The authors, prominent Denverites, counter remarks from the school district that celebrate its hard-earned…
Hal Bidlack
Tinkering with the machinery of death | BIDLACK
Many years ago, I happened to cross paths with then-US Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. We were attending different conferences in Aspen. I was in the Music Tent, as part of John Denver’s regular annual environmental education meeting, while Justice Blackmun was speaking to a…
Jimmy Sengenberger
DPS’ celebration doesn’t match the data
Denver Public Schools is seeing green — literally. As Superintendent Alex Marrero hailed the district’s new “accredited (green)” rating as “a significant milestone” last week, he asked teachers to wear green and even changed the district’s website’s color scheme to match. But there are lies,…
Miller Hudson
Trump’s EPA edict illustrates why he can’t convince Coloradans | HUDSON
Miller Hudson You only have to look at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent edict to Colorado forbidding us from proceeding with the scheduled closure of coal-fired electric generation plants to understand why the MAGA mindset fails to win support here at the ballot box….
Can Dem guv aspirants avert crisis, find realistic remedy to TABOR trouble? | HUDSON
Updated 3 months ago
Jon Caldara
Thank the Broncos’ owners, and curse them | CALDARA
Only a month and a half ago on these pages I predicted the Denver Broncos will use the subtle threat of leaving Colorado to get taxpayers to build them a new stadium. In other words, I predicted history will repeat itself. Football stadiums are on…
Rachel Gabel
Agriculture the answer when security is the question | GABEL
A country that can feed itself is a country that can defend itself. Algeria is rich in oil and gas, but food security and producing enough food in dry conditions remains a challenge. The African country grows a great deal of dryland crops like wheat…
Misinformation behind millions spent in Denver’s asinine anti-meat campaign | GABEL
Updated 2 months ago
Sean Duffy
‘Let’s make 2025 the Year of the American Man’ | DUFFY
Sean Duffy American society needs to man up. In the election just concluded, the yawning chasm between the candidate choices of men and women — particularly younger Americans — received overdue attention. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); Polls taken this fall showed a 53% gap between young…
Dennis Maes
So much potential — and such a tragic loss | MAES
Dennis Maes During my 40-year legal career as an attorney and judge I was privy to numerous violent and negligent acts that often resulted in death or maiming. The victims included the most vulnerable children, including infants, and the elderly who were robbed of the…
Dick Wadhams
CO voters sour on Dems, snubbed by state GOP | Dick Wadhams
Since their total takeover of state government in 2018, Colorado Democrats have ridden high on the anti-Trump hog while driving the state into decline. Gov. Jared Polis and his massive legislative majorities are increasingly influenced by self-proclaimed Democratic Socialists. Colorado’s budget has exploded, creating a…
George Brauchler
The ballot is our only path to law and order in Colorado | BRAUCHLER
George Brauchler Criminal justice was on the ballot this past Tuesday. Coloradans showed strong support for public safety-related matters and rejected our legislature’s decade-long move to prioritize criminals over public safety and law enforcement. The 2024 legislative session has again proven there is a disconnect…
Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy
Our suggestions on the 2024 Colorado state ballot issues | CRONIN & LOEVY
Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Here are our views for the 2024 Colorado state issues. We summarize each proposed measure, then indicate our personal vote and finally offer our prediction of what the public vote will be: Amendment G: Modify Property Tax Exemption for Veterans…