Author: Sean Duffy
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Colorado nonprofits rise to our biggest challenges | Sean Duffy
Real, lasting answers to Colorado’s toughest problems aren’t found in bigger government programs. In fact, government — particularly when run by incompetent leaders — is making these problems far worse. It won’t shock anyone who lives or works along the Front Range that national numbers on homelessness are skyrocketing — and metropolitan Denver remains among…
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Strong national defense a boon to Colorado | Sean Duffy
Will Pete Hegseth be good for Colorado? The newly minted secretary of defense, who won U.S. Senate confirmation via a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance, has promised to lead a Pentagon refocused on its core mission: lethally defending America’s national security interests. This means a rejection of Biden-era woke silliness and its overarching,…
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Union bailout is a handout to organized labor | Sean Duffy
It’s not just on Colorado street corners and intersections where people are looking for handouts. Union leaders are panhandling big time for an infusion of cash they have not earned. One of the hottest, and totally unnecessary, controversies that is eating up legislative bandwidth at the Capitol is a proposal for a gift to union…
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Move out of the basement and get to work | Sean Duffy
Work is a verb. As the Colorado Legislature reconvenes for another 120-day session, there is a chance for bipartisan cooperation if members focus on the current trend lines showing a growing culture of dependence and embrace a strong, sustained economic opportunity agenda. This requires an intense and sustained focus on measures that open the door…
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COLUMN: A New Year’s diet for our state government | Sean Duffy
New year! New you? As 2025 dawns, that’s the mantra we are bombarded with throughout social media and in just about every television ad. Diet plans. Gym memberships. Easy-to-cook healthy meals. Maybe Colorado’s government will take the hint. The state needs to go on a fiscal and regulatory diet, and stop eating away at economic…
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Let’s all say, ‘God bless us. Every one’ | Sean Duffy
On this Christmas Day, whom better to focus on than Ebenezer Scrooge? In one form or another over 180 years, Charles Dickens’ miserly figure of Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” has cemented itself into our culture. From classic movies (the 1951 version is still the gold standard) to less laudatory renditions such as Bill Murray’s…
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Quantity tops quality for legislation at Capitol | Sean Duffy
If politicians pass an ever-expanding pile of bills, does Colorado become more prosperous? Apparently, the liberal-led Legislature believes it is being paid by volume, without having to examine the actual results of the record-setting reams of new laws enacted year after year. The Common Sense Institute just released a very interesting study of the output…
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The backbone of a Colorado political lion | Sean Duffy
In an age marked by cynics and charlatans, authentic leaders with backbone command attention. Let us take note, then, of former Colorado Senate President John Andrews, who has published a new memoir to mark his 80th year. “Front Row: Eight Grateful Decades at the Political Parade” would make a great stocking stuffer this Christmas for…
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Will Colorado Dems turn a tin ear to voters — again? | Sean Duffy
Ideology or reality? As December opens, that is the choice facing the returning Democrat majority in the Legislature. The early signs are that true to form, the House and Senate will continue on the same tired road where there are only left turns. What Colorado does not need is another 120-day session that will either…
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Wright will trump left in coming energy war | Sean Duffy
It’s a battle of left vs. Wright. The best news out of the Trump transition is the appointment of Colorado’s Chris Wright, CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy as U.S. secretary of Energy. Wright is a visionary iconoclast, eagerly — and winsomely — making the case that the “settled” conventional wisdom on climate change isn’t settled,…