Author: Wil Armstrong
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GUEST OPINION: Time to sunset some zombies
Every Halloween we see people dressed as zombies, imitating the catatonic and clumsy evildoers in nearly 600 bad movies. In Haitian folklore, a zombie is a dead body reanimated through Vodou magic, but in the movies they all have one thing in common: no matter how many times they are killed, they keep coming back.…
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GUEST OPINION: Colorado needs new leadership with a better vision
In 1866, a New York lawyer and local politician named Gideon Tucker famously wrote that “no man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.” Often misattributed to Mark Twain, the expression has far outlasted Tucker’s fame — because there is so much truth in it. Colorado’s constitution limits the state…
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GUEST OPINION: Colorado’s votes could have been irrelevant
If Gov. Jared Polis had his way, Donald Trump would have won Colorado’s electoral votes even though Coloradans in 2024 voted against Donald Trump by a 350,000-vote margin, an 11-point spread. Under the “National Popular Vote” scheme enacted into law in Colorado in 2020, the state’s 10 electoral votes would have gone to President Trump.…
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GUEST OPINION: Jump starting jobs in Colorado
In Louisville, you can have a maximum of six hens, but no roosters. At charity fundraisers, churches that hold silent auctions cannot include gift baskets containing a bottle of wine without a state permit. Beer drinkers can get a DUI not only while driving, but also while rowing a canoe or riding a horse. In…
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GUEST OPINION: Last-minute government is bad government
President Joe Biden created a brief stir on Dec. 12 by signing 1,539 pardons and commutations, including one for his own son. Aside from the eye-opening number, an all-time one-day record, the brazen attitude of a president ignoring public sentiment and flaunting justice shocked even Biden’s supporters, or at least it should have. My dad,…