columns
Colorado’s Michael Bennet rode outrage over last government shutdown to presidential bid | TRAIL MIX
Updated 5 minutes ago
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
Updated 2 days ago
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
Updated 3 days ago
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
Updated 3 days ago
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
Updated 4 days ago
Communities across Colorado voted on ballot issues | Cronin and Loevy
Updated 4 days ago
Mid-decade redistricting and the race to the bottom | SONDERMANN
Updated 4 days ago
Communities across Colorado voted on ballot issues | CRONIN & LOEVY
Updated 5 days ago
Hold DPS accountable — and they’ll come for you | Jimmy Sengenberger
Updated 1 week ago
Colorado deserves a budget that protects families, not bureaucrats | OPINION
Updated 1 week ago
Squabbles, drill baby drill, and rare GOP integrity | BIDLACK
Updated 1 week ago
Bennet won’t blame Polis for Medicaid cuts | WADHAMS
Updated 1 week ago
The advantage of Medicare Advantage | HUDSON
Updated 1 week ago
The significance of the State Land Board siding with the San Luis Valley | GABEL
Updated 1 week ago
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
Updated 2 weeks ago
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
Updated 2 weeks ago
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
Updated 2 weeks ago
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...
The message cost-conscious Coloradans should take from Mamdani’s mayoral win | NOONAN
Updated 2 weeks ago
Dick Cheney, R.I.P. | SLOAN
Updated 2 weeks ago
When science illiteracy proves dangerous | BIDLACK
Updated 2 weeks ago
How to get America’s kids to the ag table | GABEL
Updated 2 weeks ago
Colorado’s commie election | CALDARA
Updated 3 weeks ago
The affordability election redux | CRONIN & LOEVY
Updated 3 weeks ago
Colorado’s 2025 election hints at future of state’s public education | NOONAN
Updated 3 weeks ago
Super PAC propels Bennet without his fingerprints | WADHAMS
Updated 3 weeks ago
Has the danger of AI already arrived? | HUDSON
Updated 3 weeks ago
While senators stall, Colorado farmers continue to sweat federal shutdowns | GABEL
Updated 3 weeks ago
Rocky Mountain west gets high grades for passenger train services | CRONIN & LOEVY
Updated 3 weeks ago
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
Updated 4 weeks ago
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
Updated 4 weeks ago
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
Updated 4 weeks ago
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
Updated 1 month ago
Colorado’s changing role as policy lab | CALDARA
Updated 1 month ago
Thank the Broncos’ owners, and curse them | CALDARA
Updated 2 months ago
On boulders and bollards – and a “vibrant” Denver | SONDERMANN
Updated 3 months ago
