Author: Jiimmy Sengenberger
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Peters did the crime; let her do some time | Jimmy Sengenberger
If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime – unless you have the right political connections? Democratic Gov. Jared Polis reportedly is considering a Trump administration request to transfer convicted felon Tina Peters – the Republican former Mesa County clerk – to federal custody. Peters is serving a nine-year state sentence for breaching…
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School board races showed unions’ outsized clout | Jimmy Sengenberger
The big story from Tuesday’s school board elections is regrettable yet unsurprising: Teachers ’unions still reign in and around Denver. But they’re not impervious. Union-endorsed candidates win 70% of the time, as The Denver Gazette reported — even though fewer than a third of district teachers are often union members. Talk about a massively outsized…
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Unions on full spin in school board races | Jimmy Sengenberger
Today is Election Day. In Colorado, it’s all about local elections — the ones that matter most because they hit closest to home. Nowhere more than in education, where school boards hire the superintendent and set the district’s direction. Honesty and integrity should command these races. Instead, teacher’s unions skew the field. In Jefferson County,…
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DPS pillories a board member to elude scrutiny | Jimmy Sengenberger
In May 2022, Denver school board members Scott Esserman and Auon’tai Anderson publicly humiliated a Manual High JROTC instructor at a meeting of parents and students. They falsely blamed him for a district decision to move the program and accused him of racism. When the principal tried to take the blame, Anderson wouldn’t allow it:…
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COLUMN: ‘Fees,’ ‘tariffs’ — taxes by another name | Jimmy Sengenberger
Last week, when U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked why President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “not taxes on imported goods,” he said something so absurd, it would be hilarious if he weren’t trying to be serious. “That’s easy,” Bessent said. “Because tariffs are a surcharge, not a tax. They could be paid by the…
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Jeffco teachers’ union failed to vet its ‘Cleanup Crew’ | Jimmy Sengenberger
In August, the Jefferson County Education Association endorsed Peter Gibbins, Tina Moeinian and Michael Yocum for Jeffco’s school board in this fall’s election, proudly branding them the “Cleanup Crew.” It was a curious label. All but one member of the current board are already union-backed. Cleaning up whose mess, exactly? It turns out they have…
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Another free-speech case Colorado deserves to lose | Jimmy Sengenberger
Colorado is back before the U.S. Supreme Court — defending yet another law trampling free speech over gender identity and sexual orientation. And once again, the state looks headed for defeat. On Tuesday, the justices heard Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge brought by licensed counselor Kaley Chiles against Colorado’s ban on any counseling of minors…