opinion
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Hunting is a privilege, not a constitutional right | PODIUM
By Roland Halpern Colorado voters may soon be asked to place hunting and fishing in the state constitution. Proposition 302 would establish the right to hunt, fish and take wildlife using “traditional methods,” while declaring hunting and fishing are the state’s preferred means of managing wildlife. But though hunting and fishing are an important management…
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DEA’s Miguel Chino describes Colorado’s place on the ‘fentanyl pill superhighway’ | The OpEdge Podcast
Miguel Chino, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division, joins The OpEdge to paint the picture of Colorado’s place on America’s “fentanyl pill superhighways.” Chino updates Gazette and Colorado Politics Deputy Opinion Editor Antonio Olivero on the latest in the DEA’s fight in the Rocky Mountain region against…
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A right to buy a product? | Hal Bidlack
A recent story in Colorado Politics caught my eye, as I learned of a “citizen initiative” that has qualified for the November ballot. It seems supporters of Initiative 177 have collected enough signatures, 146,165 legitimate ones out of a total of 189,508 collected, to clear the hurdle needed for a proposal to appear on the…
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Fourteen years after Aurora — we can’t afford to go backward | GUEST COLUMN
By John Hickenlooper and Gabby Giffords Two Saturdays ago, a gunman shot and killed three people and wounded several others in Twin Falls, Idaho. This latest deadly shooting comes only days after we remembered the lives we lost 14 years ago in Colorado. On July 20, 2012, Colorado faced one of the worst nights in…
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A daring and fearless rescuer — is afraid of a debate | Dick Wadhams
Victor Marx, the Republican nominee for governor who says he can exorcize demons and who claimed he has fearlessly rescued 45,000 women and children during 150 “high-risk” missions around the world, appears to be intimidated by the notion of debating his Democratic opponent. Colorado has a long history of major-party candidates engaging in general election…
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Colorado’s ballot-initiative process again a battleground for deep pockets, special interests — not the people | Miller Hudson
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a constitution as, “The set of fundamental principles according to which a state is constituted and governed, a body of rules prescribing the major elements of the structure and activities of any organization.” Somewhere in Colorado’s governing history this notion of confining a constitution to basic precepts and then leaving…
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Proposed EPA changes could save truckers billions | Rachel Gabel
Agriculture is in distress across nearly every segment across much of the nation, and certainly to a more dire degree in the western United States. If it were not a historic drought, some pressures could be eased. Others can be eased through common sense and a rollback of regulations. And, perhaps, the passage of a…
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Colorado Democrats, your time is coming | Jon Caldara
Hey, Colorado Democrats! All the fun you’ve had watching Republican dysfunction in Colorado for the last 20 years was just a preview of what is about to happen to you. The Colorado Republican Party no longer exists as a competitive institution. Republicans did it to themselves. They built a culture around purity tests, with no…
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Colorado must continue finding common ground on wildfire policy | GUEST COLUMN
By John Herrick Colorado has never lacked for opinions about wildfire policy. We debate forest management, climate change, prescribed burns, land use, air quality and budgets. Those debates are familiar territory, but a new discussion is beginning to happen around the use of chemical retardant in aerial firefighting. Before I became an attorney and served…
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Proposition NN is the best investment for Colorado’s students and schools | GUEST COLUMN
By Justin Ogden Colorado families know what it means to make difficult budget decisions. Inflation has driven up the cost of groceries, housing, utilities and just about everything else. Families like mine work hard to stretch every dollar while still trying to give our children every opportunity to learn, grow and succeed. Our state faces…