Tag: Opinion
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Colorado’s ski bums on strike vs. ‘Big Ski’ | CALDARA
Hopefully, by the time you read this, the strike up at Telluride Ski Resort is over, ski patrollers are again joyfully sliding down mountains and getting paid for it, and tourists are once again being overcharged for… well, everything. But there are some lessons buried in this story of ski bums going all Norma Rae…
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Colorado’s unaffiliated vote is up for grabs in 2026 | Dick Wadhams
Leaders of both parties often dismiss the stunning increase in “unaffiliated” voters as just a result of automatic registration when getting a driver license or some other government process. It must make them feel better about the plummeting number of registered Democrats and Republicans in the past 10 years. As of Dec. 1, 2025, there…
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The men and women of meatpacking on my mind | Rachel Gabel
The meatpacking industry employees and their families are on my mind as the closure of the Lexington, Nebraska, Tyson plant nears its closure date in January. More than 3,200 employees will lose their jobs, realistically affecting half of the 11,000 people in Lexington. Meat packing has never been an easy way to make a living.…
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COLUMN: Trust, partnerships powered FBI’s field work in 2025
By Mark Michalek As the year comes to a close, Coloradans are reflecting on what has changed, what has endured and what still demands our attention. Public safety remains among the most important responsibilities of government. Violent crime, drug trafficking, child exploitation, fraud and cybercrime continue to threaten communities across our state. Meeting those challenges…
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COLUMN: Now is not the time to stop giving | Pius Kamau
I recall the 1983 to 1985 Ethiopian famine that affected 8 million people and killed between half a million to a million people. It was such a dramatic and tragic loss of life, it propelled Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to organize a very successful benefits concert, Live Aid. The two-venue benefit concert and music based…
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Democracy is under attack, right here in Colorado | Jon Caldara
Remember during COVID, when the people screaming the loudest for government-mandated jabs were the very same people chanting “my body, my choice” when it came to abortion — I mean, “women’s health care”? They’re also the folks who insist a 12-year-old is far too young to get a tattoo, but perfectly mature enough to make…
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At Metro State, standard English is racist | Jimmy Sengenberger
Every so often in this media business, you read something that makes you do a double take — because you feel dumber for having read it. That happened to me when I came across a report by Complete Colorado about how Metropolitan State University of Denver’s writing center expressly rejects the use of Standard American…
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GUEST COLUMN: Let’s be grateful for the gift of tax indexing
By Wil Armstrong Your biggest Christmas present of the year may be one you won’t even notice! The legendary 1981 Reagan tax cut — which ushered in a decade of prosperity — included a little-known provision called tax indexing. It put an end to inflation pushing Americans into higher tax brackets. Though it did not…
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Aurora — a city still becoming | Michael A. Hancock
Christmas is not a holiday for illusions. It does not ask us to pretend the world — or our city — is whole, harmonious, or complete. It asks something more complicated: that we acknowledge what is broken without surrendering to it, and that we understand renewal as a responsibility rather than a feeling. As this…
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COLUMN: The best Christmas gifts aren’t under the tree
One of the most memorable and meaningful Christmas Eve’s for me was the year I was abandoned at the public library. It was Monday, December 24, 1979. I was seven. The Baldwin Public Library is in the middle of my small hometown on the south shore of Long Island. One sign of a good town…