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What’s behind Wheat Ridge’s 26% crime drop since 2021? Start with police staffing, mayor says.
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What’s behind Wheat Ridge’s 26% crime drop since 2021? Start with police staffing, mayor says.

By Mayor Bud Starker | Wheat Ridge Neighborhood Gazette Wheat Ridge has seen a significant drop in crime rates, returning to levels last observed before the pandemic. The Wheat Ridge Police Department reports a 26% overall decrease in crime since 2021, marking a substantial improvement from the spike experienced during the pandemic. A major factor in this reduction is the department’s success in recruiting high-quality candidates, even as law enforcement agencies nationwide struggle with recruitment and retention. After staffing levels dipped in 2021, WRPD is on track to add a dozen officers this year. Seven rookies graduated from the academy last December and completed over three months of field training before beginning independent patrols. Additionally, five more recruits are curr...
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Stratford: What does human trafficking look like in Colorado?
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Stratford: What does human trafficking look like in Colorado?

By Sabrina Stratford | Guest Columnist There are more than 49.6 million people in modern slavery today. What does that look like in Colorado? Human trafficking is the exploitation of another person involving force, fraud, or coercion for labor or sex. Human trafficking is a crime against a person, not a border. Anyone can become a victim, no matter a person’s background or identity, but the more vulnerable a person is the more likely they are to become a victim. At risk individuals include those living on the streets or homeless, individuals with addictions, sex workers, the LGBTQIA+ community, runaways and immigrants. At risk people are trafficked more frequently than safe and stable community members. Sex trafficking Involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provis...
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Antoni: Washington ate your lunch, then blamed business
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Commentary, Heritage Foundation

Antoni: Washington ate your lunch, then blamed business

By EJ Antoni | The Heritage Foundation You’re paying more for food because Congress refuses to control its spending. That was the testimony I recently gave before a Senate committee, but the committee chair, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, refused to believe the evidence presented. Her plan is not to reduce government spending, but to drive your food prices even higher. Ms. Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, and many other politicians are to blame for the inflation that has ravaged the American people over the last three years. Our representatives in Congress, along with President Biden in the White House, spent trillions of dollars we didn’t have—and that money had to come from somewhere. It’s coming out of your wallet right now, through the hidden tax of inflation. To finance the stratos...
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Zorn: Colorado’s passenger rail romance vs. reality
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Zorn: Colorado’s passenger rail romance vs. reality

By Ryan Zorn | Guest Columnist Have you noticed that the expansion of passenger rail is beginning to permeate agendas of state and local governments?  The romance of big rail projects and access to other people’s money have always been hard for career politicians to resist.  Gov. Jared Polis is no different.  The Biden administration is dangling billions of federal taxpayer dollars out for grabs.  Here at home, the governor just secured a legislated $3 per-day rental car fee worth $58 million per year and a privately-negotiated political ransom worth $175 million per year from Colorado oil and gas producers in the form of new production fees that will be funneled toward new passenger rail initiatives.  His message to our local governments seems to be “all ...
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Devotional: What type of dog are you?
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Devotional: What type of dog are you?

By DRAKE HUNTER | Special Contributor Using your imagination and curiosity is one of life’s greatest joys when used in a healthy way. I invite you to think about something fun: "What type of dog are you most like?" It's interesting how our behavior and personality often reflect those of our furry friends. This exploration might help you learn something new about yourself and make you more faithful and trusting in life as we "Watch Them Dogs!" Over the nearly four decades I’ve been a believer and follower of Christ, I've heard and delivered countless impactful and meaningful sermons. But one stands out more than others, and I want to share it with you. In August 1988, when I became a Christian, I heard a message that made a lasting impression. It was called "Watch Them Dogs!" and w...
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Sloan: The unhinged morality of the international community
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Commentary, National, Rocky Mountain Voice

Sloan: The unhinged morality of the international community

By Kelly Sloan | Contributing Columnist, Rocky Mountain Voice If anyone still harbored any illusions that the International Criminal Court at The Hague was a serious institution with a shred of legitimacy and a moral mandate, those illusions have surely been put to rest. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan issued arrest warrants in late May for Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, in what may be the finest demonstration of absurdity in international affairs so far this century. And given the continued omnipresence of the UN, that’s saying a lot. Granted, Khan and his team of charlatans also issued warrants for a handful of Hamas bosses, but the ludicrous equivalence only seems to lend an even greater sense of incredulity to the episode; it...
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Overbeck: How to stop biological boys from dominating girls’ sports in Colorado 
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Overbeck: How to stop biological boys from dominating girls’ sports in Colorado 

By Joy Overbeck  | Guest Columnist With the Colorado legislature’s huge Democrat majority passing a flood of bills pushing radical gender-switching dogma for children, the only way to fight back is with ballot initiatives. Let’s let the electorate vote on the legislature’s wacky woke agenda. Should boys who think they are girls be allowed on girls’ sports teams, where their stronger male physiques make injuring girls a real danger, and those same male advantages win them trophies and scholarships that should rightfully go to females? Should schools be required to tell parents if their child tells the teacher that she now “identifies” as the opposite sex and wants to be called Bill, and not Jill? These are two of the issues voters should have an opportunity to decide. If yo...
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Stossel: You can flip burgers in California for $20 an hour
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Commentary, The Daily Signal

Stossel: You can flip burgers in California for $20 an hour

By John Stossel  | The Daily Signal California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws. The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20. Gov. Gavin Newsom said, “We saw the inequities … we had a responsibility to do more.” Unions pushed for the higher minimum, and in Democrat-run states, unions usually get what they want. CNN announced, “Half a million California fast food workers will now earn $20 per hour!” Gullible leftists at the Center for American Progress claim, “A higher minimum wage would boost millions of families out of poverty and further stimulate the economy.”   READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL Editor's note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the autho...
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Caldara: At CU you can get a domestic terrorist scholarship
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Commentary, completecolorado.com

Caldara: At CU you can get a domestic terrorist scholarship

By Jon Caldara | Complete Colorado Canceling college loan debt isn’t enough! You heard me. Confiscating money from people who never went to college, as well as those who foolishly paid off their own college loans, to give the booty to those who knowingly agreed to pay back their loans isn’t enough. Why? Well, duh — it doesn’t memorialize acts of violence perpetrated in the name of social justice! If you had a modern college education, you’d understand that. Colleges and universities around the country should follow the lead of the University of Colorado and give out scholarships in the name of domestic terrorists. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT COMPLETE COLORADO Editor's note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily refle...
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Burack: China’s land purchases in U.S. spark outcry for federal solution
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Commentary, The Daily Signal

Burack: China’s land purchases in U.S. spark outcry for federal solution

By Bryan Burack  | The Daily Signal Over the past two years, nearly half the states in America acted to scrutinize purchases of land linked to China and other foreign adversaries. Concerns focus primarily on national security threats from China, and they’re well-founded. The federal government has no idea how much real estate Chinese entities own in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture legally is required to track foreign ownership of agricultural land, but underestimates Chinese ownership by at least 50%. And even though Chinese investments in the U.S. are decreasing overall, China’s purchases of American real estate have grown. What’s more, federal national security capabilities intended to scrutinize these purchases ...
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