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High-profile chefs join opposition to meat processing ban on Denver’s November ballot
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High-profile chefs join opposition to meat processing ban on Denver’s November ballot

By Sherrie Peif | Complete Colorado Several high profile Denver chefs have joined forces with a group who work closely with the Colorado livestock industry to oppose an anti-agriculture initiative that will go before Denver voters in November. La Diabla Pozole y Mezcal Chef Jose Avila and II Posto Chef Andrea Frizzi are teaming up with president and CEO of the National Western Stock Show and Complex Paul Andrews, operations manager/employee owner of Superior Farms Isabel Bautista, president of the Colorado Livestock Association Kenny Rogers along with other Superior Farms employee/owners to oppose a citizen-initiated measure to ban meat processing facilities within the city limits of Denver. READ THE FULL STORY AT COMPLETE COLORADO
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Caldara: Learning to live without a functional Colorado GOP
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Caldara: Learning to live without a functional Colorado GOP

By Jon Caldara | Complete Colorado I’m trying to come up with the right analogy. I’m sure you can do much better. I’m thinking of a bunch of little kids playing king of the hill. In their minds, they think the pile of dirt is Mount Everest, when, in fact, it’s the size of a pitching mound. Or maybe one of those Japanese soldiers who was left on a small, isolated island for decades not knowing World War II had ended and his side lost. He’s still fighting. Or, perhaps, corporate shareholders fighting for control of a company they think is the size of IBM when in fact it’s a broken hot dog cart. READ THE FULL STORY AT COMPLETE COLORADO Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the managem...
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Caldara: Denver’s record high homeless entirely predictable
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Caldara: Denver’s record high homeless entirely predictable

By Jon Caldara | Commentary, Complete Colorado Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a famed British naval historian (I mean really, just try to make up a snootier British name) who died in 1993. He is most noted for predicting, with complete accuracy, that in 2024 the Denver metro area would have more homeless than ever. Well, he might have used slightly different words, but lo and behold, the latest data release proved him right. In 1955, after a career of watching governmental inefficiency, he published a satirical essay in The Economist magazine and introduced the world to “Parkinson’s Law.” You instinctively know and understand it. READ THE FULL STORY AT COMPLETE COLORADO Editor’s note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessaril...
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Caldara: Even out-of-favor political minorities need protecting
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Caldara: Even out-of-favor political minorities need protecting

By John Caldara | Commentary, Complete Colorado Hunters are deviant perverts. Men convinced they’re women are to be celebrated. The left works hard to make the bizarre mainstream. The transgender movement is a shining example of just how good they are at it. Ya know, if only you’d learn about all 64 genders and the associated newspeak, you’d understand. You’d learn transsexuals, cross-dressers and transgendered re-creating “The Last Supper” is loving artistic interpretation. Men punching the hell out of women, once called domestic abuse, is now an Olympic boxing event. Celebrate it or be canceled. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT COMPLETE COLORADO Editor's note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of t...
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Caldara: Raise a glass to the Coors Foundation
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Caldara: Raise a glass to the Coors Foundation

By Jon Caldara | Complete Colorado When I was a kid, I’d collect old tin cans and the newfangled aluminum beer cans. My father would drive me down to the Coors distribution warehouse in Littleton. They’d weigh them and they gave me cash, real cash in my hand for recycling. This was my first interaction with “Coors.” Coors invented the completely recyclable aluminum beverage container. Now the marketplace standard, it saved more waste and pollution than an army of greenies banning shopping bags, and without any governmental mandates. Later in life, my interactions with Coors included sneaking into my parents’ garage to sneak cans of Coors Light. READ THE FULL STORY AT COMPLETE COLORADO Editor's note: Opinions expressed in commentary pieces are those of the author ...
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Caldara: At CU you can get a domestic terrorist scholarship
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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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Initiatives to open primaries, bring ranked choice voting challenged in Colorado Supreme Court
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Initiatives to open primaries, bring ranked choice voting challenged in Colorado Supreme Court

By Sherrie Peif | Complete Colorado DENVER — While two ballot initiatives dealing with Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) are already either gathering signatures or in the petition approval phase with the secretary of state, two more citizen-initiated measures that would completely upend Colorado elections are going through an appeals process with the Colorado Supreme Court. Ballot initiatives 188 and 310 “Concerning the Conduct of Elections,” would drastically change the way primary elections are held in Colorado. Only one of the two initiatives would actually go to voters, as they are near mirror images of each other, but either one would make Colorado’s primaries fully open and mandate use of RCV to conduct the elections. According to the final app...
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Gaines: Imagine if journalists covered guns like they do abortion
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Gaines: Imagine if journalists covered guns like they do abortion

By Cory Gaines | Complete Colorado 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. In that same CPR article, Duran is also quoted as saying, “I know the bills we passed this year will make a big difference in making our community safer.”  Regardless of where you put the balance point between individual liberties and tradeoffs made in the name of safety, I hope that we could agree that we should be careful putting restrictions on any kin...
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Caldara: Looming gas price hike entirely Jared Polis’ doing
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Caldara: Looming gas price hike entirely Jared Polis’ doing

By Jon Caldara | Complete Colorado (You can listen to this column, read by the author, here). 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. That’s what is going on today with the one person who should have prevented our gasoline prices from spiking $0.50 to $1 per gallon, but instead made it happen. In that remarkably dry year of 2002, there was a burn ban in the area northwest of Colorado Springs. A park ranger with the U.S. Forest Service, Terry Barton, a forestry technician, set a piece of paper on fire in an area she knew was prone to ignite. Why? Some say it was so she could put out the fire and look like...
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Gaines: Getting back from the state what we’re owed under TABOR
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Gaines: Getting back from the state what we’re owed under TABOR

By Cory Gaines | Complete Colorado (via Colorado Accountability Project) Pretend that your employer accidentally overpaid you, say $20 extra a month for a couple years.  Neither of you notice until one day you get an email telling you about the mistake.  The mistake has been fixed and your pay will be $20 less going forward.  Also, you now owe your employer $240.  Not a pleasant thing to consider. Fresh on the heels of Governor Polis signing the state budget, we got similar bad news.  Due to an accounting error there’s a $67 million “oops” in the budget. The mistake stretches all the way back to the hurried 2020 legislative session and a bill rushed through for Polis’ signature.  SB20-215 created the Health Insurance Affordability Enter...
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