Tag: Polis
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Gov. Jared Polis is Rodney Dangerfield | Jon Caldara
Hang onto your wallet, it’s a Colorado legislative session. And the loneliest person under the Gold Dome is Jared Polis, a governor without a nation. This will be the last regular session of his limited two terms, and he has managed to become disliked by just about everyone. Of course, no matter how often he…
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Polis is a mixed bag on public ed | Jimmy Sengenberger
Gov. Jared Polis deserves real credit for being the first Democrat to opt his state into the Trump administration’s federal school choice program. Even as activists in his own party howled in protest, Polis ignored the noise and chose what’s best for Colorado kids. Beginning in 2027, the program — part of last year’s “One…
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EDITORIAL: Polis’ impaired judgment on pot
We’ve tried reasoning with Gov. Jared Polis about his almost-giddy infatuation with retail marijuana and its purported benefits to our state. So far, our efforts have been futile. Oblivious to the demonstrable harm high-potency THC products have done to Colorado — particularly its youth — Polis glibly continues to peddle utter nonsense on the subject.…
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EDITORIAL: Polis, too, misses the point on rescheduling pot
It wasn’t surprising but still was deeply troubling that the Trump administration decided this week to move toward “rescheduling” marijuana under federal law — i.e., downgrading the federal government’s assessment of pot’s peril to the country. Though the president had been signaling his intention to make the move for some time, it nevertheless came as…
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Ag industry can’t surrender the keys to the Kingdom
Animal agriculture, ranching, hunting, and farming are not dying ways of life. The cowboy is not about to ride off into the sunset and certain extinction. Beef is not going to be replaced by cultured meat, any variety of bugs, or salad (though we grow that, too). AI or niche small scale production methods are…
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Go. Polis’ silence deafening on Peters’ prison transfer | Dick Wadhams
Hed: Polis’ silence deafening on Peters’ prison transfer | Dick Wadhams Pull quote: As long as Colorado Republicans are defined by stolen election conspiracy theories as promulgated by Trump, Peters and a host of other Republican leaders, unaffiliated voters who make up half of Colorado’s electorate will be repelled from voting for Republicans despite their…
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Colorado rolls out plan to supercharge clean-energy jobs boom
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A new state analysis released Tuesday warns that Colorado will face significant shortages of skilled trades workers, threatening the state’s ability to meet Gov. Jared Polis’ greenhouse gas reduction goals unless it dramatically ramps up training. The report shows gaps in the trades, such as electricians, wind turbine technicians, EV automotive technicians and HVAC technicians,…
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Bennet won’t blame Polis for Medicaid cuts | Dick Wadhams
Gov. Jared Polis, with the acquiescence of U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet who is the presumptive Democratic frontrunner for governor in 2026, is proposing deep Medicaid cuts that will hurt Colorado’s most vulnerable families and endanger the state’s entire health care system. Meanwhile, Polis and Bennet rail against Medicaid reforms at the federal level that would…
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EDITORIAL: Governor’s land grab repudiated
Gov. Jared Polis has pushed a passel of laws through the legislature over the past couple of years that mandate sweeping revisions to local land-use rules. His attempt, essentially, to rezone Colorado’s metro areas micromanages matters ranging from the number of housing units per parcel to whether new housing can be required to have off-street…
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EDITORIAL: Hurdles to AI will cost Colorado
No sooner had Colorado’s legislature punted on AI, yet again, during this summer’s special session — than a Homer Simpson-worthy “Doh!” might as well have pealed out across the state. It would have been an acknowledgment lawmakers had blown it, for the time being, in making Colorado a more welcoming destination for the development of…