Northeast Denver is booming. The airport has grown to one of the busiest in the world. Fertile fields are now subdivisions full of single-family houses. While several Denver schools have
For a project that kicked off with $2.5 million seven years ago, there is little evidence along Interstate 25 of progress on a fast, frequent train system running from Pueblo
This legislative session, Colorado missed a unique and important opportunity to lead the nation in helping its military veterans access the benefits they earned in the course of serving their
Continue readingOpinion: Why couldn’t we protect veterans from unscrupulous actors?
Tracking Trump’s power trip Re: “It’s about ideology, not oligarchy,” March 30 commentary Ross Douthat states that the misuse of “oligarchy” by Sen. Bernie Sanders creates a vision of Trumpism
Continue readingLetters: Trump isn’t running an “oligarchy.” It’s a “kleptocracy.”
“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” – Mark Twain The same is true for vacancy committees. Vacancy committees are small groups of party insiders who
This past Saturday, Colorado Republicans held their biennial reorganization meeting where our party decided to go in a new direction and selected me as their next chair. This new direction
Continue readingBrita Horn: As the new chair of Colorado’s GOP, I will reopen the big tent
Speaker Johnson on wrong side of proxy voting Re: “Speaker’s effort to block proxy voting rejected,” April 2 news story I find it painfully ironic that the Speaker of the House,
Continue readingLetters: As a leader for “family values” surely Johnson supports proxy voting?
Colorado laws restrict youth access to gambling, pornographic magazines, cigarettes and chewing tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, and firearms, but not to pornographic websites. This week, lawmakers began the process of remedying
Continue readingOpinion: Children should not be able to access pornography online
It’s a pricey snack for the elite, while others are food insecure Re: “$148 caviar-stuffed crepe,” March 28 feature story I think this is the first time a story in
Continue readingLetters: The caviar-filled crepes in Aspen represent a rich indifference
The vast majority of parents in Colorado don’t have to stay up at night worrying about the single measles case in Pueblo sparking a statewide outbreak because their children have
Continue readingEditorial: Vaccine hesitant? Pueblo measles case is reason to revisit MMR risks