columbus day
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Colorado could replace Columbus Day with Election Day as a holiday
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The Colorado General Assembly’s annual bill to cancel the state’s observance of Columbus Day took on a twist on the House floor Tuesday. House Bill 1231 was amended by its sponsor, Rep. Adrienne Benavidez, D-Commerce City, to replace it with Election Day as one of state government’s 10 official days off each year. Opponents contend…
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Columbus Day repeal narrowly passes committee, aims for future compromises
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The annually doomed bill to repeal Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado has a twist this year: It would create a commission to forge mutual understanding about heritage between Coloradans of Italian and American Indian descent. The same approach was used to settle disputes over American Indian sports mascots at schools in Colorado in…
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Are Hispanics wasting Columbus Day?
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Columbus Day has become an awkward occasion, either politely ignored or loudly denounced. As is often forgotten, the official holiday, which Colorado was the first state to codify in 1907, grew out of turn-of-the-century celebrations of Italian pride in Pueblo- a steel-mill town then known as “the melting pot of the west.” But the successful…
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Knights of Columbus warn that Joe Salazar’s Columbus Day ban would fulfill Klan’s plan
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The world’s largest Catholic fraternal organization is coming out swinging against a bill sponsored by state Rep. Joe Salazar to cancel Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado. The Knights of Columbus — named in honor of explorer Christopher Columbus — is opposing House Bill 1327, saying the legislation is based on “fake history”…
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Joe Salazar introduces legislation to repeal Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado
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State Rep. Joe Salazar, a Thornton Democrat, on Friday introduced a bill to cancel Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado and instead offer state employees a floating day off in October. The legislation, House Bill 1327, includes a lengthy section that declares, “The Columbus voyage triggered one of history’s greatest slave trades, the pillaging…
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Lawmakers, right and left, vote to retain Columbus Day
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After an emotional hearing that continued for hours, the House State Affairs committee on Monday voted down a bill that would have removed Columbus Day from the state’s holiday calendar. Long-shot House Bill 1135, sponsored by Rep. Joe Salazar, D-Thornton, brought testimony by Native Americans and others opposed to celebrating Christopher Columbus. Witnesses cited atrocities…
