Krannawitter: From Decoration Day to Memorial Day, the history of honoring those who gave all
What is now officially Memorial Day used to be called Decoration Day, a uniquely American holiday born from the ashes of the America War.
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Moriarty: Democrats’ Colorado Energy story has a bad ending
Colorado Governor Jared Polis and the Colorado democrats tell us a story about fossil fuels. This story has three parts: fossil fuels are bad, the democrats have a plan to eliminate fossil fuels, and their plan is working.
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Applegate: Possible solutions for El Paso County’s immigration problem
El Paso County recently saw two busloads of immigrants here illegally come down from Denver. Since Denver’s sanctuary city policies create their own fiscal burden, they now claim they cannot afford to keep taking care of lawbreakers they attracted in the first place.
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Cooper: Colorado May Have A Problem with 12,000+ Disappearing Undeliverable Ballots
The Colorado Open Record Act (CORA) allows citizens to examine public records of payments via invoices as well as a long list of election records for every election.
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Gaines: Imagine if journalists covered guns like they do abortion
I think you can take Democrat House Majority Leader Duran at her word when she recently told CPR News, that she and her colleagues made passing gun control legislation “…routine, just as anything else that we run.” Since taking over all levers of power at the state level, and suffering no negative consequences, majority Democrats have indeed made gun control legislation “routine” in Colorado.
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Caldara: Looming gas price hike entirely Jared Polis’ doing
The Hayman fire in 2002 was one of the worst in Colorado’s history. What’s more appalling is it was started by one person whose responsibility it was to make sure forest fires don’t happen in the first place.
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Walcher: The importance of Jim Evans in the battle for PILT
I did a double-take when I saw the headline: “Meeker County to call on Congress to pay up for federal lands.”
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Southern Utes accuse Durango of secret efforts to annex tribal lands, following CORA requests
The Southern Ute Indian Tribe has often faced attacks on its jurisdiction since that time in an effort by non-tribal members to undermine the Tribe’s sovereignty and economically benefit non-Natives. Few of those have been as brazen as that of Brunot. However, this year the Tribe experienced another attack with the actions of the City of Durango (City) in attempting to annex Reservation land, which Tribal Council swiftly addressed.
Sloan: The DEI facade is showing cracks
Last week, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s board of trustees did what only a short time ago would have been considered an unthinkable act of social regression: they voted, unanimously, to not only cut the $2.3 million funding of the institution’s DEI program, but to reroute that money into public safety – yes, meaning campus police.
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Hillman: Jokes about our legislature used to be funny
We used to joke that “no man’s life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” That’s no laughing matter in today’s Colorado.
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