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Letters from readers: Exorbitant fees, a moose on the buffet, and raise a flag for Trump
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Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Letters from readers: Exorbitant fees, a moose on the buffet, and raise a flag for Trump

Today, I'm having moose bone pudding with curried squash sauce, probably one of only a few hundred thousand humans partaking of such a pleasure on this fine winter afternoon.  If you think about it, there were 7,000 moose killed in Alaska, 21,000 in Canada and 32,000 in Russia, and with a decent body size of 700 pound it's enough poundage for family and friendly experimenting.  Colorado has a total moose population of around 3,000, with a few hundred being taken by hunters each year. With a total human population of about six million, not everyone gets a chance to try my particular piece de resistance.  The Centennial State has more than one head of cattle for every two people, so the hamburgers do make the rounds. Not everyone craves rattlesnake beans or pan-broiled r...
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Hillman: We don’t need lawyers to solve every dispute
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Commentary, Mark Hillman

Hillman: We don’t need lawyers to solve every dispute

By Mark Hillman | Guest Commentary, Capitol Review Everywhere we turn, there’s an ad for a lawyer — on television, streaming services, radio, podcasts, public transportation and, of course, billboards. Not so long ago, the legal profession observed a self-imposed ban on advertising by law firms, considering such self-promotion unprofessional. In 1977, the Supreme Court ruled such bans to be an unconstitutional restriction on freedom of speech. What began as a trickle of unremarkable professional services ads is now a deluge. Lawyers in the U.S. spend an estimated $2.4 billion annually on advertising. One survey finds that in 2023 law firms spent more than $40 million on advertising just in Colorado. Billboard lawyers don’t spend that kind of money because they ar...
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Eckman: Dolores Canyon monument designation seeks to solve nonexistent problem
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coloradopolitics.com, Commentary

Eckman: Dolores Canyon monument designation seeks to solve nonexistent problem

By Adam Eckman | Commentary, Colorado Politics The recent proposal to designate lands in the Dolores River region as a national monument is a flawed initiative that directly conflicts with the interests of both Colorado and the nation. It also faces strong opposition from local communities. Though framed as a means to protect the natural beauty and biodiversity of the Dolores Canyons in Western Colorado, this move to invoke expansive federal authority to designate more than 400,000 acres as a national monument would jeopardize national security, undermine our energy independence, hinder technological progress, prevent Colorado from contributing to its carbon-free energy objectives, and — paradoxically — damage the very land it seeks to preserve. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY ...
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Gaines: Legislative Democrats do their business in darkness
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Commentary, completecolorado.com

Gaines: Legislative Democrats do their business in darkness

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Complete Colorado On Dec. 30, 2024, right prior to the legally-mandated deadline, the Executive Committee of the Colorado legislature held a hearing on Senate Bill 24-157.  If you don’t know it by number, this is the bill that, among other things, allows the legislature to avoid certain provisions of the Colorado Open Meetings Law, which privileges them in ways that almost no other governmental entity in this state enjoys.  This privilege extends beyond just legislative business, too.  Majority Democrats have already made use of the law to hold two closed caucus meetings. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT COMPLETE COLORADO Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessaril...
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Vespa: With Biden out and Trump in, America is back
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Commentary, TownHall.com

Vespa: With Biden out and Trump in, America is back

By Matt Vespa | Commentary, TownHall.com You've made it. You’ve survived Joe Biden's failed presidency. This joke of an administration has done nothing but set the world ablaze and make everyone poorer. But now, the work to rebuild our country begins on January 20 when Donald J. Trump is inaugurated once again as the 47th president of the United States. Unlike the past four years of misery, Townhall will cover our great revival under President Trump, but it won't be easy. Democrats in Congress and the mainstream media are going to do everything they can to disrupt and block Trump's America First and Make America Great Again agendas. They prefer the status quo and ignore the will of the American people, who, on November 5, 2024, gave Trump a mandate to restore American greatness an...
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Goodwin: Perpetual screwup Joe Biden spins and stumbles on his way out of the White House
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Commentary, New York Post

Goodwin: Perpetual screwup Joe Biden spins and stumbles on his way out of the White House

By Michael Goodwin | Commentary, New York Post In his last week in office, Joe Biden is making a farewell tour of speeches to try to put a shine on his legacy.  It would be a tall order in any event, but because the president is a perpetual screwup, his effort is going off the rails.  Instead of polishing his record, he’s inadvertently highlighting what a total failure he’s been and why voters were right to elect Donald Trump.  Even as Biden paints himself as a big success, a Gallup survey captures the truth: Large majorities say America has gone backward in key areas during his watch. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE NEW YORK POST Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the ...
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York: Jack Smith, the prosecutor who would never admit what he was doing
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Commentary, Washington Examiner

York: Jack Smith, the prosecutor who would never admit what he was doing

By Byron York | Commentary, Washington Examiner JACK SMITH, THE PROSECUTOR WHO WOULD NEVER ADMIT WHAT HE WAS DOING. Just before 1 a.m. Tuesday, the Biden Justice Department’s hand-picked Trump prosecutor, Jack Smith, released a report on the investigation that resulted in the indictment of Donald Trump on four counts involving the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The report did not have a lot of new information in it — Smith has poured out his evidence in filing after filing for more than a year — but it did contain Smith’s assessment that he could have convicted Trump had Trump not won the presidency and is thus no longer subject to federal prosecution. What else could Smith say? That he had spent all that time and money, and stirred up the country so m...
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Azani: Hostage deal shows Hamas took Trump’s ‘hell to pay’ threat seriously
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Commentary, Fox News

Azani: Hostage deal shows Hamas took Trump’s ‘hell to pay’ threat seriously

By Shahar Azani  | Commentary, Fox News Incoming President Donald Trump has repeatedly issued stern warnings to Hamas in the past few weeks, saying that there will be "hell to pay" if Israeli hostages are not released by the time he returns to office on Jan. 20. Wednesday's announcement that an agreement between Israel and Hamas was near, providing for a temporary cease-fire and the release of 33 Israeli hostages, made clear that the "Trump Factor" played a pivotal role in pushing this deal forward. These 33 Israeli hostages lates to be freed under the deal, along with 65 others still held by Hamas in Gaza in sub-human conditions for the past 466 days, were snatched from their homes and their beds on a Saturday morning of the Jewish holiday of Simchat on October 7, 202...
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Gaines: You paid about $24.5 million in tax dollars to Denver to address the city’s homelessness
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Colorado Accountability Project, Commentary

Gaines: You paid about $24.5 million in tax dollars to Denver to address the city’s homelessness

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project A CORA request came back recently (part of digging into a reader question) that illustrates the importance of paying attention to what your legislature is doing — in particular, paying attention to those seemingly-unimportant, unsexy bills. The reader had asked how much money Denver has spent on homelessness. I'm not even going to pretend that I can find or relate a full accounting to you. Not only are there different streams of money, how you do the counting matters. I've seen headlines that put the number at $155 million spent by Denver. Okay. Personal experience, making repeated requests to Denver officials for information on the topic have gone unanswered. Let's go with that number, though I wonder whether the lack o...
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Walcher: The unproud Western legacy of Jimmy Carter
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Commentary, Greg Walcher

Walcher: The unproud Western legacy of Jimmy Carter

By Greg Walcher | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Alaska comprises nearly 20 percent of the entire U.S. at more than 665,000 square-miles, and is the richest state in natural resources. Yet it remains the most sparsely populated state, partly because of its isolation and weather, but largely because the federal government owns most of it: 406,000 square-miles. The U.S. purchased Alaska in 1867 specifically because of its vast resources, especially energy, which benefited the state and country for decades. But in the late 1970s, just after completion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act was passed, with the goal of preventing further development of those resources. It set aside 245,312.5 square-miles (157 million acres) for specia...
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