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Joswick: Perspective and the paradox of property rights

A truth: When the county goes to work on its land-use code, it is poking a stick into the hornets’ nest. So it is no surprise that this latest county effort is eliciting some pre...

DATE: Feb 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Pushkin: Colorado Checkoff - 40 years of taxpayers helping Colorado communities

Each year, Colorado’s nonprofit organizations work diligently to provide services to communities throughout the state. The need is great and fortunately for the state’s nonprofits, one of th...

DATE: Feb 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Parker: ‘You guys are the adults ...’ Time to act like it

WASHINGTON – It was a profoundly poignant image: Thirty teens huddled together in a small dark room, their faces illuminated by cellphones as they learned about an active shooter at their sc...

DATE: Feb 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Hoyt: The next generation - America’s future farmers and ranchers depend upon training and education today

America’s future farmers and ranchers depend upon training and education today

DATE: Feb 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Douthat: Let’s ban porn

In this weekend’s New York Times Magazine there is a long profile of a new kind of pedagogy unique to our particular stage of civilization. It’s called “porn literacy,” and it involves expla...

DATE: Feb 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Rankin: Common core standards, are we ready for a change?

Remember “Common Core”? That term first appeared in 2010. It referred, at that time, to the controversial Math and English Language Arts Standards that Colorado, along with 41 other states, ...

DATE: Feb 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: The end of the two-party system

In the first half of the 1990s, I worked in Europe for The Wall Street Journal. I covered nothing but good news: the reunification of Germany, the liberation of Central Europe, t...

DATE: Feb 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Allen: What pro-wolf introduction factions are telling you and what they are not

You’ve probably noticed there’s a group bent on introducing wolves into Colorado. Here are some of their most popular claims: The presence of wolves automatically leads to a he...

DATE: Feb 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Parker: At the White House - Governing with the enemy

When White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned Wednesday amid allegations that he abused his two ex-wives and a former girlfriend, he parted the curtains on a personnel and security di...

DATE: Feb 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

McQuade - Point of view: Depicting the president

In a thoughtful “Editorial Update” published on the Opinion page last month ( “Bravo!” I thought to myself. “Good for them; it’s about time!” That is, until I looked across the p...

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

O’Toole: Justice in the age of the Bundy family

What do we make of the latest twist in the saga of Cliven Bundy’s family? As a public-lands rancher, I am both appalled and cheered by the dismissal of charges – with prejudice a...

DATE: Feb 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Douthat: The taming of a demagogue

Recent political history has offered few spectacles more depressing than the acquiescence of leading Republican politicians to the rise of Donald Trump. The selection of a nominee for presid...

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman