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Sanderson: The president’s costly power plan is a stealth energy tax for Colorado
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This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is coming to Denver to drum up state support for a federal effort to implement the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. Announced by the White House with great fanfare this past summer, it is the president’s response to climate change. For Colorado, it will be a costly response.…
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Ours: Unlocking access to palliative care spells better cancer outcomes
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This year more than 24,000 Coloradans will hear the dreaded words, “You have cancer.” Thousands of individuals and families will cope with not only the physical symptoms of cancer, but will likely ride an emotional roller coaster as well. How is it possible to provide for and treat all of these symptoms simultaneously and successfully?…
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Brown: Building a Better Colorado engaging state in discussions on challenges, solutions
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You don’t have to be paying close attention to our national political conversation to know that we are increasingly dividing ourselves by sides, networks, and extremes. But if you haven’t been paying close attention, you may not be aware of a remarkable exception taking place in Colorado. This past summer, a nonpartisan group of Republicans…
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Lockwood: Coffman’s EPA suit healthy for Colorado
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Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman rightfully joined a multi-state suit challenging the toxic-waste dumping Environmental “Protection” Agency’s Clean Power Plan. Shortly thereafter, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper sought an opinion from the Colorado Supreme Court about her power to file suit against the wishes of our state’s top elected official. The new, controversial and questionable Clean…
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Hartley: Jeffco vote was a rejection of partisan gridlock
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This past Tuesday, the voters of Jefferson County delivered a loud and clear message against the divisive and hardline posture of their school board majority. By nearly a two-to-one margin, they recalled the board majority of Ken Witt, Julie Williams, and John Newkirk and refused to vote in their allies running for the two open…
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Ganahl: Carly Fiorina, the accomplished candidate
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Back in 2008, as the owner of Camp Bow Wow, a fast-growing national franchise business, I was riding a tide of success. When the market took a downturn, I went from riding a tide of success to not knowing if we were going to make it. We, as a company, were forced to make very…
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Fields: TABOR, the hospital provider fee and protecting taxpayers
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As the legislative session ended earlier this year, Senate President Bill Cadman went on the radio and called a bill to exempt the hospital provider fee from the limits provided under the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, the No. 1 bad idea of the session. Yesterday, Gov. Hickenlooper unveiled his proposed 2017 state budget.…
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The Gazette: Why we published the name of the gunman
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[Ed. Note: Below is a column penned by The Gazette‘s editor Joanna Bean about why the Colorado Springs paper decided to publish the name of the person identified as the shooter in this weekend’s murders. It’s reprinted with permission via the Colorado Press Association.] Within hours of the first shots fired near downtown Colorado Springs…
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Littwin: On the Colorado Springs open-carry killing
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What do you do if you see a neighbor walking down the street carrying a rifle, looking, well, distraught? You don’t know his name, but you’ve seen him more than a few times and he looks somehow different. Plus, he’s carrying a rifle in broad daylight and you think you ought to report that to…
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Blake: Attorney General Coffman’s greatest ally is 2003-era Ken Salazar
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Former Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar is no fan of current AG Cynthia Coffman’s participation in a multi-state suit against President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan.” The suit is “out of step with the role and responsibilities of an attorney general,” Salazar told The Denver Post. But what Salazar did as AG a dozen years ago,…
