Author: Laura Carno
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Perspective: ‘Our educators need protection’
Last year, then-state Sen. Paul Lundeen of Monument recommended me for a state-level Colorado Educator Safety Task Force. As executive director of FASTER Colorado, a 501©(3) that provides training for armed school security teams as a protection against school shootings, I saw it as a natural fit. I expected the task force would focus on…
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PERSPECTIVE: Armed heroes on campus
Would it surprise you to know that schools in 37 of Colorado’s 178 school districts have armed school employees to protect the children? Would it surprise you to know that those employees are not School Resource Officers (SROs) or full-time security guards? Instead, they are principals, coaches, janitors, teachers, school nurses and secretaries. The policy…
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Why schools are safer with the teachers armed
With all of the coverage of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., there has been a lot of discussion about whether schools in Colorado should have armed staff. Not only should they have armed staff, but several dozen school districts in Colorado do have armed staff. It has been the…
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Point/Counterpoint: Does Colorado Springs need a dedicated stormwater fee?
John Suthers Colorado Springs will be 150 years old in 2021. Eighty percent of our population growth occurred in the past 50 years. Unfortunately, our stormwater infrastructure has not kept pace. The inadequacy of our system became painfully apparent in flooding incidents in the 1990s, including one that caused 68 million gallons of raw sewage…
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GUEST COLUMN: Are you really pro-choice?
Democrats seem intent on making this election about choice. What else explains the barrage of ads in the Colorado U.S. Senate race with the false narrative that a woman’s right to get a legal abortion is in jeopardy? Since the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade has “survived” the pro-life presidencies of Ronald…
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GUEST COLUMN: With Sen. Udall actions speak louder than words
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Mark Udall was one of the “Obamacare 12”: senators who cast the 60th and decisive vote for Obamacare. His constituents were against Obamacare. Had he simply done his job and represented them, the entire nation would have been spared the miseries of Obamacare. Like President Barack Obama, Sen.…
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Supposed ‘good thing’, Obamacare, has ranged from inconvenient to devastating
Nearly 250,000 health care policies in Colorado were canceled as of Nov. 6, according to the Colorado Department of Insurance. I guarantee: These families do not consider Obamacare a “good thing.” Sen. Mark Udall, facing re-election next year, tried to soften the blow: he sponsored a bill that would “allow” people to keep their current…
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Morse’s lack of accountability, overreaching
There are two key reasons why State Sen. John Morse should be recalled and why I am supporting this effort. First, Sen. Morse ran for office pledging to focus on jobs and the economy but, when New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” (MAIG) started pouring money into Colorado, he instead shifted his…