Author: By Jon Caldara
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COLUMN: Why your favorite Colorado restaurant closed | Jon Caldara
The bad policy chickens are coming home to roost. At least you can eat chickens. We are seeing the first domino tumble in the economic ruin that will hit Colorado in a few short years. Small businesses, like locally owned restaurants, are shuttering. I don’t know if you remember dining out in Colorado before it…
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COLUMN: Colorado’s left-captured legislature at its best with bizarre bills | Jon Caldara
While Colorado’s governmental core functions are going unattended, as witnessed by crime, traffic and crumbling roads, the Legislature is busying itself with the most critical work of all — coming up with wing-bat crazy bills to promote the trans agenda by disempowering parents, crushing needed industries and torturing puppies. By far my favorite is House…
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COLUMN: Democracy dies in centralized social engineering at the state Capitol | CALDARA
The people making the most noise about former President Donald Trump being a threat to democracy are working to take away democracy right here in Colorado. It would be comical if it weren’t so ugly. The Regional Transportation District (RTD) has a 15-member, directly elected, nonpartisan board of directors. I was elected to that board…
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COLUMN: It’s good to be king of Colorado — just ask the Dems | Jon Caldara
Have you ever played, “If I were king”? If I were king … I would outlaw the designated hitter rule in Major League Baseball. If I were king … I would require all oatmeal-raisin cookies be made with hunter-safety orange food dye. How many times have you walked across the room for what seemed a…
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COLUMN: Podcasts killed the radio star | Jon Caldara
I must have hit that age. Nostalgia keeps overtaking me. I remember a Colorado that had thriving, competitive newspapers in every city, along with equally thriving local radio to keep them in check. There was a time when local radio was big. Colorado, and the Front Range in particular, had some of the most competitive…
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COLUMN: Bring back the old TABOR | Jon Caldara
The former head of the leftist ProgressNow Colorado, who is married to a U.S. congresswoman living in Jefferson County, has donated to the election campaigns of all three of the current Jefferson County commissioners. So, what a coincidence those same Jefferson County commissioners, all Democrats, are now going to pay him $180,000 to help dupe…
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COLUMN: The ‘Colorado Rebound’ nears | Jon Caldara
Never since the passage of our Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in 1992 have I been more optimistic about the possibility of Coloradans winning back the lost personal and economic freedoms stolen by the government leviathan. And no, I have not been ingesting the state’s newly deregulated psychedelic mushrooms. I make this observation after taking an…
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COLUMN: Colorado GOP is determined to lose | Jon Caldara
Politics is the art of addition, not subtraction. The job of electing someone is all about getting people who aren’t all that crazy for you to vote for you. Proving to voters you despise them oddly doesn’t win them over. Just like government cannot tax a people into prosperity, a political party cannot divide and…
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COLUMN: Thiry’s half-right voting idea | Jon Caldara
Colorado has the possibility to become the nation’s first post-partisan state. As the number of unaffiliated voters swell and registered Republicans and Democrats shrink to all-time lows, we see a growing movement of people who have just had it with both parties. And why not? The extremes of both parties are becoming more distasteful by…
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COLUMN: Polis, Colorado Dems refuse to rein in petulant alt-left reps | Jon Caldara
Yep, the Colorado Republican Party can be completely dysfunctional and embarrassing. It has elements many call “ultra-right wing”, or “alt-right.” And you shouldn’t care because it just doesn’t matter. There is no bigger non-story in Colorado than Republican infighting. How could there be? They have no political relevance. None. They are the super-minority. Democrats control…