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Protecting Colorado from wildfire starts before fire arrives | PODIUM
Updated 6 days ago
By Rick Cables Colorado is once again being reminded of how significantly wildfires can affect the people and places we love. In southern Colorado, the...
The internet wasn’t built for kids — Colorado is starting to change that | PODIUM
Updated 2 weeks ago
By Joshua Ewing Picture a teenager, alone in her room at midnight, pouring her heart out to an AI chatbot instead of a parent or...
Overruling the voters before they even vote | PODIUM
Updated 3 weeks ago
By Chris Richardson There is something profoundly wrong with a legislature that sees a citizen-led constitutional amendment gaining momentum and responds not by making its...
If we lose our coverage, we lose our lives | PODIUM
Updated 4 weeks ago
By Thomas Buckley My oncologist asked: “Polycythemia Vera. Do you know what that means?” Earlier, I lived in blissful ignorance, unaware I potentially carried a...
Colorado lupus patients can’t afford ‘most favored nation’ drug pricing | PODIUM
Updated 2 months ago
Colorado modernized voting, but the ballot Is still closed for many | PODIUM
Updated 2 months ago
From secret huddles to Zebulon — the high cost of the Dougco BOCC’s shady governance | PODIUM
Updated 2 months ago
Colorado’s prisons are underfunded, not overcrowded | PODIUM
Updated 2 months ago
Colorado’s health care cuts are painful — what comes next could be worse | PODIUM
Updated 3 months ago
Don’t break what works — leave Colorado’s ‘float but don’t touch’ intact | PODIUM
Updated 3 months ago
Drug-induced abortions open a can of worms on campus | PODIUM
Updated 3 months ago
Colorado’s childcare contribution tax credit bolsters our economy by keeping programs afloat | PODIUM
Updated 3 months ago
Update, safeguard Colorado’s mail ballot with voter ID | PODIUM
Updated 4 months ago
‘Steel for fuel’ — but bill consumers for both | PODIUM
Updated 4 months ago
Congress needs to protect 340B for rural Colorado | PODIUM
Updated 4 months ago
By Rod Pelton A lot of politicians talk about understanding what life is like for our rural communities, but not many really do. I’m a...
Colorado’s clean-energy future must be affordable for older adults | PODIUM
Updated 4 months ago
By Jason DeaBueno Last winter, one of the older adults we serve at Silver Key shared something that has stayed with me. She begun turning...
Senate Bill 22 critical to keeping energy costs affordable, power reliable | PODIUM
Updated 5 months ago
By Brian Wortinger I love Colorado’s outdoors. I’m an avid skier and hiker and my happiest days are spent deep in the mountains with no...
The public health hazards in sports betting | PODIUM
Updated 5 months ago
By Brandon Zelasko As Colorado lawmakers revisit sports betting policy this session, the state has an opportunity to widen the lens. Beyond revenue projections and...
Colorado is turning its back on agriculture | PODIUM
Updated 5 months ago
Colorado lawmakers must stem our health care cost crisis | PODIUM
Updated 5 months ago
Freight rail is Pueblo County’s competitive advantage | PODIUM
Updated 6 months ago
Colorado needs to modernize mental health treatment | PODIUM
Updated 6 months ago
Rebuilding Colorado’s talent pipeline system | PODIUM
Updated 6 months ago
Comprehensive energy permitting reform benefits Colorado, the mountain west | PODIUM
Updated 6 months ago
Big Marijuana in Colorado is all about spin, denial | PODIUM
Updated 6 months ago
Colorado chose politics over public safety and now our communities pay the price | PODIUM
Updated 7 months ago
Bringing a local community approach to Colorado health policy | PODIUM
Updated 7 months ago
As Colorado’s soon-to-be majority, independent voters will determine state’s political future | PODIUM
Updated 7 months ago
Regular Coloradans went up against our state’s utility giant— and won | PODIUM
Updated 7 months ago
By Tricia Canonico Last week, democracy won in Colorado — the kind of feel-good democracy where a bunch of regular people show up and make...
What the Minnesota fraud case teaches Colorado about grant oversight | PODIUM
Updated 8 months ago
By Erik Clarke State and local governments across the country rely heavily on nonprofit partners to deliver social-service programs. When these partnerships work well, they...
We can build a better path forward for Colorado health care | PODIUM
Updated 8 months ago
By Jeff Tieman and Julie Reiskin Colorado is careening toward a health care disaster, and unless we change course now, too many of our neighbors...
Rural Colorado health care receives the attention it deserves | PODIUM
Updated 8 months ago
By Marc Catlin A $50 billion investment to fund rural health care was in jeopardy in mid-October, when members of the U.S. Senate attempted to...
Financial tech should serve Colorado families — not sell their data | PODIUM
Updated 8 months ago
From chronically absent to exploring the culinary world | PODIUM
Updated 9 months ago
As Polis pacifies, RTD uses loophole that lets taxes pay political consultants | PODIUM
Updated 9 months ago
