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Our View: Assembly should pass diaper relief bill

We must admit that at first glance a bill in the Colorado Assembly to provide funding for diapers due to COVID-19 impacts sounded, well, a little odd. The bill would provide $4 m...

DATE: Feb 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Support Neguse’s National Biodiversity Strategy bill

Watching this latest life-giving snowstorm falling outside my window, I’m reminded how tied we are to such gifts of nature. Yes, I’ll gladly shovel the snow. Far better than chok...

DATE: Feb 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Editorial cartoons

DATE: Feb 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Letter: 30x30 offers conservation for all users

Over the 40 years I have visited and lived in Colorado, it has become apparent to me that most of the people who have chosen to live here or have stayed in the state they were born in absolu...

DATE: Feb 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letter from Korla

Mitch McConnell condemns Trump, but refuses to convict

Editor’s note: Following is a transcript of Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s speech made after McConnell voted not to impeach former President Donald Trump. McConnell went on to say he...

DATE: Feb 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Our View: ‘Caste’ provides lesson in Black history

It’s likely that few Americans living today have been properly educated about African-American history. One of us remembers a college political science lecture on the Civil War i...

DATE: Feb 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letter: Biden order will undermine women’s sports

Imagine a world without Megan Rapinoe, Serena Williams and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. That is the world President Biden has initiated by signing Executive Order 13988, which states that “Children...

DATE: Feb 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: McConnell is a hypocrite for failing to vote to convict Trump

Well, it’s bad enough that the Republican members of Congress don’t have enough intestinal fortitude to do what they know is the right thing, and vote to make Trump accountable for his actio...

DATE: Feb 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: CORE Act deserves our support

We are so close. (Feb. 3, “Colorado lawmakers optimistic about CORE Act’s chances”). The CORE (Colorado Outdoor Recreation & Economy) Act is going through the Senate now after passing throug...

DATE: Feb 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Republicans’ acquittal of Trump is appalling

The Senate trial for Trump’s incitement of the riot on Jan. 6 is over and to no one’s surprise, 43 Republicans voted to acquit him. I think this is an appalling response to the t...

DATE: Feb 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letter: Calls to Boebert’s office met with demands, hangups

I called Rep. Lauren Boebert after the Marjorie Taylor Greene vote, concerned Greene’s violence wasn’t checked by Boebert. A female staffer replied sharply, “That is not what thi...

DATE: Feb 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Gail Collins: Do not, under any circumstances, Press 1

Lately, I’ve been having conversations with robocallers. I take this as a sign that the pandemic has gone on way too long. “My name is Eve with Discovery Health Care,” one call be...

DATE: Feb 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns