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Dems try to hijack Colorado’s congressional map | Dick Wadhams
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Colorado Democrats are hellbent to sideline the Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission in the 2026 election and ultimately steal three Republican congressional seats in 2028 and 2030. A hilariously named group that calls itself “Coloradans for a Level Playing Field” wants to bypass the Independent Commission and the competitive congressional districts it created in 2021 in…
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Like Trump nationally, incumbent Colorado Dems lose sight of what matters to everyday people | Miller Hudson
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My years as a high-level radioactive waste manager took me in and out of Washington, D.C. frequently during the 1990s. Following Newt Gingrich’s successful 1994 ouster of the Democratic majority in Congress, following their 40-year reign, I was surprised many Democratic lobbyists were willing to acknowledge privately Newt’s win was probably a good thing. There…
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Colorado farmers fight fires one day, stand in line for ashes the next | Rachel Gabel
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Fires on the plains are not the roaring, mosaic burns in the mountains that leap across canyons and leave the skeletons of trees behind as monuments of destruction. In this country, the first gust of wind hits like a left hook and gets the attention of everyone. The weatherman smiles and talks about precipitation chances…
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What Gallup polls teach us about presidents | Cronin & Loevy
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The Gallup organization, founded by George Gallup, announced Feb. 11 they will no longer conduct their well-known polls that rate whether the Americans approve or disapprove the way presidents handle the job. Gallup began these polls in the late 1930s but did not conduct them during World War II. The Gallup staff has said no…
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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…
