Columns
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Will Colorado’s Trump-and-Polis-approved education grift-gift continue? | Paula Noonan
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If President Donald Trump says it’s free money and Gov. Jared Polis says it’s free money, is it really free money? Both the president and governor claim the Great Big Beautiful Bill’s voucher for education scholarships is “free money.” The rest of us know there’s no such thing as “free money” in government programs. The…
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Trump joins Dems’ assault on rural Colorado | Dick Wadhams
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Ruling Colorado Democrats have assaulted rural Colorado for the past seven years under Gov. Jared Polis and the Democratic socialists who drive their massive legislative majorities. They are destroying mining and oil-and-gas jobs while imposing wolves on Colorado ranchers and communities. The First Gentleman tried to appoint a blatantly anti-livestock production activist onto the state veterinary…
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Thinking through what to expect in the world in 2026 | SLOAN
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It being something of a tradition of mine (and I am ever bound by tradition) to pen my inaugural column of the new year as a tour of sorts of the world scene, let’s begin: We begin in Europe, by which of course we mean Ukraine. It’s fair to say we seem closer to a…
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Are we all post-liberals now? | Luige del Puerto
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Three decades after the end of World War II, a Japanese soldier finally returned to his home country after holding out in the jungles of the Philippines. Cut off from his unit, Hiroo Onoda had no way of knowing that Japan had surrendered. He did what he was trained to do – he kept fighting.…
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They don’t make ’em like Ben Nighthorse Campbell anymore | GABEL
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There are many things to appreciate about the late Ben Nighthorse Campbell, but one of the items at the top of the list is his belief that it’s more important to kill bad bills than to sign onto a mediocre bill in the name of visibility. His time in the statehouse was the era of…
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Colorado’s ski bums on strike vs. ‘Big Ski’ | CALDARA
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Hopefully, by the time you read this, the strike up at Telluride Ski Resort is over, ski patrollers are again joyfully sliding down mountains and getting paid for it, and tourists are once again being overcharged for… well, everything. But there are some lessons buried in this story of ski bums going all Norma Rae…
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Rounding up a year that mostly won’t be missed | BIDLACK
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As I sat down to write this, my last column of 2025, I reflected back on a year that was, well, interesting from an old political science professor’s perspective, but which contained a lot of pain for a lot of people. And as is pretty much always the case, I found Colorado Politics to be…
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Colorado’s next governor should make kids in foster care a priority | OPINION
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By Shari F. Shink The next governor of Colorado has the chance to improve the lives of thousands of children in foster care and we’re not talking about new legislation. It’s a matter of making these invisible kids a priority and having the willpower to make the system more transparent and accountable. It might not…
