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Why does Garry Kaufman still have a job?
Denver has long been famous for dirty air. In recent years air pollution throughout the Front Range has warranted increasing concern as regulation of toxic emissions proved persistently inadequate. The fouled state of the air presents an immediate risk to public health and is a manifestation of the regulatory breakdown behind the far more dangerous […]
Move the Bureau of Land Management back to Washington where it belongs
It’s great news for Grand Junction that the Bureau of Land Management headquarters moved there. But is it good for the agency, or the federal lands that the agency oversees, or the public functions it carries out? No. And everyone knows it. That’s why federal officials should rescind the cynical Trump administration decision to relocate […]
Boebert would have been a model member of the America First Caucus
The leaked draft of a policy platform for a new congressional caucus earned opprobrium last week from both Democrats and Republicans who were aghast at the document’s unconstrained nativism and unconcealed racism. The America First Caucus document, first reported by Punchbowl News, was said to have come out of the office of hyper-right Georgia Rep. […]
How will history judge Buck’s immigration stance?
On Feb. 19, 1942, just over two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which is now understood as a moment of national shame. The document authorized the creation of incarceration centers to which Japanese immigrants and their children living in the United States, especially along the […]
Democrats are failing the Boulder massacre test
During a virtual community meeting on March 24 — two days after a gunman armed with an assault weapon slaughtered 10 people at a Boulder grocery store — Colorado Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg of Boulder said it was “a time to act.” Also at the meeting were state Reps. Judy Amabile and Edie Hooton, […]
Conspiracy theorist can’t hide from Colorado public
“The election of 2020 will go down as the most questioned election in our country’s history,” wrote Danny Moore, the new chair of the new Colorado Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission, on Facebook. That’s just one example of this conspiracy theorist’s habit of spreading misinformation about the election, COVID-19 and other topics. In other words, one […]
Blame for Boulder
Less than two weeks ago, a district judge in Boulder struck down the city’s ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. The ban, adopted by the City Council in 2018, was a rare point of optimism for Coloradans who believe American gun laws express a form of civic insanity and who live in a state […]
Stop the government from keeping finalist lists secret
When the University of Colorado regents in 2019 announced Mark Kennedy as the sole finalist in their search for a new president, it was clear to many people who read the relevant Colorado statutes that, to avoid transparency, they broke the law. The Daily Camera sued the regents for information about other candidates for the […]
Don’t let government curb free speech to stop its abuse
One of the most alarming bills so far introduced during the current session of the Colorado General Assembly is a proposed law known as “Digital Communications Regulation.” The law is audacious in its intent, hair-raising in its scope, and contemptible in its implications. It should never have made it into official circulation, and no lawmaker […]
Colorado GOP has no leaders left
The race for the chair of the Colorado Republican Party is further indication that the organization is out of competent leaders. Five people are running for the position, and not one of the viable candidates offers the kind of vision, or even sanity, that conservatives in the state need if they value political relevance. The […]
Aurora law enforcement is a danger to the people
A report from independent investigators released this week confirms what many observers of the Elijah McClain case intuited all along — that Aurora cops and paramedics behaved with mortal recklessness in handling the 23-year-old McClain, who was the suspect of no crime and posed no threat, and that, upon the young man’s death, their allies […]
The Colorado redistricting commissions need your help
The redistricting process in Colorado is a case of the Constitution versus the coronavirus. And recent news suggests the virus could be victorious. Coloradans can’t let that happen. The state is poised to undertake its once-every-decade process of drawing new boundaries of districts for members of Congress and the Colorado Legislature, a high-stakes activity that […]