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Gov. Polis Rejects Multiple Bills, Brings Veto Total To A Dozen
Season 3 Episode 87
DENVER–Gov. Jared Polis last week rejected another handful of bills passed by the Democrat-controlled Colorado legislature, bringing his veto total f…
3 months ago
Moderates are Not Our Salvation
Season 3 Episode 86
The word “moderate” is a fashionable term these days as the remedy to the nation’s sharply divided politics, but it’s highly overrated and largely in…
3 months, 1 week ago
Public School Teacher Strikes are Intolerable
Season 3 Episode 85
The recent strike by unionized public school teachers in the Sheridan School District finally ended after 28 days, Colorado’s longest teacher strike …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Colorado’s one-party rulers steadily chip away at democracy
Season 3 Episode 84
Another week, another column about Colorado’s ruling class treating democracy like a state trooper treats the speed limit. It’s for other people.
I sw…
4 months ago
The True Danger to Democracy isn't Trump, its Democrats
Season 3 Episode 83
Alexander Fraser Tytler was a judge, historian and professor of history in Scotland, born in 1747, who observed that, “A democracy cannot exist as a …
4 months ago
Flipping the script: Coloradans no longer run their government
Season 3 Episode 82
We the people of Colorado no longer control our own state constitution. I found this out the hard way.
In Colorado, a government for, by, and of the p…
4 months, 1 week ago
Big changes to Front Range Rail Taxing Boundaries Proposed
Season 3 Episode 81
DENVER–A Democrat-sponsored Senate bill changing the boundaries of the Front Range Passenger Rail special taxing district passed through its first co…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Senate Committee Rejects Gov. Polis’ CPW Commission Appointees
Season 3 Episode 82
DENVER—The Colorado Senate Agriculture Committee on April 22 rejected two of the three appointments made by Governor Polis to the Colorado Parks and …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Such Hubris Never Before Seen in Colorado
Season 3 Episode 80
The great 20th-century historian Lord Acton said it best: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Acton was building on the …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Senate Bill 135: Colorado Lawmakers Take Aim at Taxpayer Refunds
Season 3 Episode 78
I know this will shock you, but the system is rigged.
Maybe not in the conspiracy-theory, tinfoil-hat way. In the simple, obvious, right-in-front-of-y…
4 months, 3 weeks ago