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Colorado’s Michael Bennet rode outrage over last government shutdown to presidential bid | TRAIL MIX
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Only weeks after the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history ended with congressional Democrats’ demands to restore health care funding previously cut by Republicans...
Illegal means illegal | BIDLACK
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Before I get to the core of today’s column, my outrage at a president calling for the execution of sitting members of Congress, I’d like...
Stock Show’s Catch-a-Calf has cherished history | GABEL
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Bill Waneka, who was raised in Lafayette, is one of the original National Western Catch-a-Calf volunteers who remains a committee member today. The program began...
Adult supervision still needed for Colorado GOP as consequential 2026 nears | HUDSON
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Prior to the Reformation, the Catholic Church could safely franchise its Inquisition across Europe in pursuit of heretics with little worry there was anyplace non-believers...
Help grieving parents | CALDARA
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Communities across Colorado voted on ballot issues | Cronin and Loevy
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Mid-decade redistricting and the race to the bottom | SONDERMANN
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Communities across Colorado voted on ballot issues | CRONIN & LOEVY
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Hold DPS accountable — and they’ll come for you | Jimmy Sengenberger
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Colorado deserves a budget that protects families, not bureaucrats | OPINION
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Squabbles, drill baby drill, and rare GOP integrity | BIDLACK
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Bennet won’t blame Polis for Medicaid cuts | WADHAMS
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The advantage of Medicare Advantage | HUDSON
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The significance of the State Land Board siding with the San Luis Valley | GABEL
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Some members of the State Land Board don’t like the Trump administration and the decisions made about conservation, which they voiced in the monthly public...
Why Weiser has an advantage over Bennet to become Colorado’s next governor | CALDARA
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Our last election is in the rearview mirror by more than a week now, meaning we’re more than a week into the 2026 election cycle...
COLUMN: Significance of Democratic triumph still unknown
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Excuse the truism, but winning sure beats losing. Rarely has a political party needed a victory as badly as Democrats did in the off-year elections...
COLUMN: Government reopens — despite Colorado’s Dems | Jimmy Sengenberger
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Colorado’s congressional Democrats spent weeks pontificating about the disaster of a government shutdown. But when it came time to vote, every single one of them...
Dick Cheney, R.I.P. | SLOAN
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When science illiteracy proves dangerous | BIDLACK
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How to get America’s kids to the ag table | GABEL
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Colorado’s commie election | CALDARA
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The affordability election redux | CRONIN & LOEVY
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Colorado’s 2025 election hints at future of state’s public education | NOONAN
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Super PAC propels Bennet without his fingerprints | WADHAMS
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Has the danger of AI already arrived? | HUDSON
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Rocky Mountain west gets high grades for passenger train services | CRONIN & LOEVY
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Here are some additional facts and comments about the proposed Front Range passenger rail system planned to run from Pueblo on the south through Colorado...
Democrats don’t look for answers in Colorado | CALDARA
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Outside of Colorado, Democrats are still panicked about President Donald Trump’s victory, trying to figure out how Americans can be so stupid as to reject...
What did Trump achieve with China? | SLOAN
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Concerning President Donald Trump’s summit with China’s President Xi Jinping, a few observations: Trump, in his characteristically histrionic manner, declared triumphantly the summit was a...
Do Pueblo voters have strong-mayor buyer’s remorse? | MAES
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In 2019, Pueblo city voters opted to change its form of government from a city council-city manager form of government to that of a council-mayor...
How to build faith in Colorado’s mail-in ballots | CALDARA
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Colorado’s changing role as policy lab | CALDARA
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Thank the Broncos’ owners, and curse them | CALDARA
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On boulders and bollards – and a “vibrant” Denver | SONDERMANN
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