“Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,” he said about our fallen soldiers…
Category: News/Politics
EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Budgeting Zero Property Tax Dollars for Roads, Part Two
“So, we’ve got enough money right now to start and finish a one-courtroom courthouse, but we will continue to seek grants until we get to a three-courtroom courthouse…”
CLIMATE INACTION: How Colorado’s ‘Clean Energy’ Push Fell Short, Part Four
I find myself with a sense of urgency that wants to push us to go faster,” agreed commissioner Elise Jones. “My understanding is that the gap we’re trying to make up is pretty significant….”
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Sixteen
“So, we’ve talked about property rights. We’ve talked about flexibility, and a program that allows for uses. We’ve talked about conditional water rights. One of the things that [the term] ‘speculation’ brings to mind for me, is “price” and ‘use’…”
HMPRESENTLY: Weekend Follies
But, all of a sudden on Saturday, there they were, on giant big rigs, in one of those military parades… in North Korea…
Habitat for Humanity Chooses ‘Legislators of the Year’
“As our country and state look at advancing racial equity, we need more policy makers like Representative Bird and Senator Coram to prioritize affordable homeownership to help decrease the wealth gap…”
LETTER: Are We Better Off?
The rich get richer… but we can vote them out…
EDITORIAL: County Commissioners Budgeting Zero Property Tax Dollars for Roads, Part One
But as Commissioner Maez makes very clear, the BOCC had warned us. If we didn’t approve the sales tax increase, the BOCC was going to build the justice center anyway, using Certificates of Participation…
CLIMATE INACTION: How Colorado’s ‘Clean Energy’ Push Fell Short, Part Three
Now they feared that the governor would choose to implement the new law slowly, in small pieces or not at all. And over the next year and a half, they would largely be proven right…
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Fifteen
“You know, we do see a lot — within the South Platte Basin — of entities buying up water rights with the intention of drying them up in the future… definitely something we’re working on, to come up with different options…”
HMPRESENTLY: Disconnects
But, the most troubling disconnect of all, would seem to be the growing disconnect between so-called ‘law and order’ and what has been described, through the ages, as “man’s inhumanity to man”…
CLIMATE INACTION: How Colorado’s ‘Clean Energy’ Push Fell Short, Part Two
There are communities that have already been bearing the burden of pollution, in addition to income inequality, racism, all of these things,” Gonzalez said…
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Fourteen
For more than 125 years, our Colorado courts have been granting water rights holders the privilege of making a profit selling the “right to use” publicly-owned water…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Considering the Magna Carta
In 2020, our economic liberty is being threatened by government mandated shutdowns. We are being subjected to regulation of private property, business, and commerce…
OPINION: Support for Amendment B
As the head of the National Federation of Business has said, without Amendment B, a real number of small businesses around Colorado will be pushed over the edge to insolvency…
CLIMATE INACTION: How Colorado’s ‘Clean Energy’ Push Fell Short, Part One
“The AQCC is getting stuck in conflict with the governor,” said Auden Schendler, vice president of sustainability for the Aspen Skiing Company and one of the commission’s recently departed members…
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Thirteen
The new Anti-Speculation Law Work Grooup will hold its first official meeting today, Wednesday October 7, at 12 noon MDT, via ZOOM. This public meeting is scheduled to last from noon until 2pm…
HMPRESENTLY: The Artistry of Journalists
What a kick that was, with your adrenaline going like crazy! There could be monsoons or volcanic eruptions, just outside, but you’re laser-focusing on the journalist’s questions…
ACLU of Colorado 2020 Voter Guide Focused on Civil Liberties at Stake
This year’s Voter Guide is part of ACLU of Colorado’s first-ever virtual Get Out the Vote campaign in collaboration with ACLU activists and supporters…