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Minary: Conservatives could cause change if we would get involved, become informed, always vote and run for office
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Minary: Conservatives could cause change if we would get involved, become informed, always vote and run for office

By Russ Minary | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Americans, across the political spectrum, have become frustrated with the entire election process and feel that they are powerless. They feel their views and needs are ignored.  Consequently, they have unplugged from the very system which was designed as an effective way for them to manage their local governments, rather than vice versa.  It is a sad fact that the single largest voting bloc in Colorado and in many parts of the U.S. is unaffiliated.  That’s a clear indication that neither political party has engaged this group of voters. Republicans often use the word ‘conservative’, assuming the average person knows what it means.  They don’t.  Many Republicans don’t, either.  So, we on the polit...
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Disgraceful, discriminatory hiring — by CU
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Commentary, gazette.com

Disgraceful, discriminatory hiring — by CU

By The Gazette Editorial board, Commentary Colorado’s most prominent higher-ed institution, the University of Colorado system, has discreetly changed the name of the office that oversees its controversial “diversity, equity and inclusion” programs — i.e., institutionalized discrimination. It’s as if CU wanted the change to fly under the radar. The new name, the Office of Collaboration, is vague enough to escape notice. And it wasn’t publicized through an official announcement; it was outed on X by a user who presumably didn’t speak for the CU system. When The Gazette pressed CU’s front office for details, a spokesperson referred our news staffer to a page on the university’s website that the spokesperson said was “all the comment we’ll be making on this at this time.” The webpage ...
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Devotional: Vision is not just a cliché, but requires action
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Devotional: Vision is not just a cliché, but requires action

By DRAKE HUNTER | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Vision is not just a buzzword, it's a crucial aspect of effective leadership — here, there, and everywhere. Let’s examine its true meaning and how it can empower us to lead with purpose and meaning. Unfortunately, vision has lost its meaning and purpose today; it has become clichéd. Phrases like “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” “You can't see the forest for the trees,” and the ever-popular “Where there is no vision, the people perish” are overused. People frequently discuss vision, but few truly understand its significance and power. Let's not underestimate the power of vision. It's not just a passive idea or a fleeting dream; it's a force that can empower us to understand and reason our purpose and meaning in life. When a...
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Walcher: Throw off climate suffocation and ‘shovel, baby, shovel’
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Walcher: Throw off climate suffocation and ‘shovel, baby, shovel’

By Greg Walcher | Guest Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice, via GregWalcher.com My friend Amos Eno, one of the country’s leading conservation experts, spent a decade running the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and more recently the Land Conservation Assistance Network. His writing appears in all the right publications, and he is a popular speaker at conferences everywhere.  Writing about the old/new President’s endorsement of the almost-cliché adage, “Drill, baby, drill,” he added another related, but separate, concept: “Shovel, baby, shovel.” It is an apt way to describe what he calls an urgent need “to resurrect our mining of strategic and critical minerals and coal, throwing off the wet blanket of climate suffocation policies.” There is considerable attention and deb...
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Kittle: New York Magazine crops out truth with young conservative hit piece
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Commentary, National, The Federalist

Kittle: New York Magazine crops out truth with young conservative hit piece

By M.D. Kittle | Commentary, The Federalist Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A leftist “news” reporter walks into a conservative event and omits some key details in a hit piece attacking President Donald Trump and his supporters.  Even for New York Magazine, one of the bigger jokes in American journalism, the fact-fractured story headlined, “The Cruel Kids’ Table,” is a lesson in the excesses of the Pravda press.  The hit job, written by the mag’s feature reporter Brock Colyar, is supposed to be a first-person account of inauguration weekend parties filled with “young, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on America.” It’s the same tired — and false — screed portraying the MAGA movement as privil...
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Ganahl: The actions of Gov. Polis and Democrats speak louder than words — Colorado is a sanctuary state
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Ganahl: The actions of Gov. Polis and Democrats speak louder than words — Colorado is a sanctuary state

By Heidi Ganahl | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Despite Colorado Gov. Jared Polis' assertions to the contrary, the state has increasingly been adopting policies and laws that align with the characteristics of a sanctuary state, significantly limiting the enforcement capabilities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within its borders.  Discussions have been vibrant on the topic of whether Colorado should be considered a sanctuary state, given the state's legislative actions over the past few years. One of the most significant pieces of legislation is HB23-1100, which fundamentally restricts local governments' ability to contract with ICE for the detention of immigrants in local jails. This bill also bans the establishment of private immigration detention centers in...
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Gaines: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Trump directives vs. his Red Flag Law position
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Gaines: Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Trump directives vs. his Red Flag Law position

By Cory Gaines | Guest Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project I saw a recent CPR article about the conflict between Trump's directives on immigration and Colorado's sanctuary state laws. In that article, the reporter put up a statement by our own Colorado Attorney General (and gubernatorial candidate) Phil Weiser. That statement is in the screenshot linked above. I thought it would make an interesting contrast to compare what AG Weiser said re. Trump policy vs. Colorado sanctuary law to what AG Weiser said not too long after passage of Colorado's Red Flag Law. I found a couple of CPR articles with quotes from AG Weiser. Both date to 2019, the year of passage for the first iteration of the Red Flag Law. The second link below is to an April 1, 2019 article and the third is t...
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McKenna: Courts will likely decide birthright citizenship, but better route would be constitutional amendment
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

McKenna: Courts will likely decide birthright citizenship, but better route would be constitutional amendment

By Stephen C. McKenna | Guest Commentary, themckennaproject.com Colorado recently joined twenty-one other states in suing the federal government over President Trump’s Executive Order ending birthright citizenship. Setting aside for a moment the argument of whether the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship, I am wondering why so many claim to be so outraged by the idea. In Colorado’s case, it cannot be because gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Phil Weiser has a deep and abiding respect for the constitution. He and Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who is also eyeing the governor’s mansion, embarrassed Colorado by trying to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot, which the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled 9-0 was unconstitutional. These politicians appear...
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Sengenberger: Wannabe guv Jena Griswold stumbles into announcing
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Commentary, gazette.com

Sengenberger: Wannabe guv Jena Griswold stumbles into announcing

By Jimmy Sengenberger | Commentary, The Gazette Secretary of State Jena Griswold wants Colorado voters to make her governor. While the state’s top campaign finance cop hasn’t thrown a swanky launch party yet, she’s already announced her run — allegedly by breaking the very rules she’s supposed to enforce. As The Denver Gazette reported, the Public Trust Institute filed a complaint on Jan. 14, alleging Griswold “expended funds on a gubernatorial campaign and had a website dedicated to a gubernatorial run but has not registered a committee or filed a candidate affidavit for governor.” The domain — jenaforgovernor.com — was purchased on Aug. 8. A placeholder webpage went live the next day, copyrighted by “Jena for Governor,” declaring “Launching Soon” and asking visitors to...
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York: Trump’s first 100 hours was a shock to the system
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Commentary, Washington Examiner

York: Trump’s first 100 hours was a shock to the system

By Byron York | Commentary, Washington Examiner  It’s a long tradition in American politics to evaluate a president by what he has accomplished in his first 100 days in office. Like so many other traditions of the presidency, Donald Trump has changed that. In his second term, he has been moving so fast on so many policy fronts that it will take a while to digest what he has done in the first 100 hours. Trump’s arrival has been a shock to the system in Washington. With his barrage of executive actions, he has simply overwhelmed the ability of the media and the political opposition to keep up with him. Trump’s opponents have been forced to choose which actions to resist and which to let slide, or at least just nominally resist. They simply don’t have ...
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