Tag: columnists
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Perspective: Colorado’s competency crisis
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Children on the playground at Black Forest Hills Elementary School in Aurora yelled “stranger danger!” as they ran away from a man who allegedly tried to kidnap an 11-year old child. The man accused of that crime, Soloman Galligan, was a registered sex offender. At…
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GUEST OPINION: Time to restore order, opportunity in downtown Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As a business leader who staffs people downtown, I believe in the values that built Colorado Springs: free enterprise, personal responsibility, property rights and a limited but effective government. Today, those values are being tested…
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GUEST OPINION: Coloradans deserve more options in higher education
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Which better prepares students for success in the workforce — a four-year degree in a field such as sociology or anthropology and tens of thousands of dollars of student debt, or a more targeted degree…
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DPS’ immigration game exposed — again | Jimmy Sengenberger
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Denver Public Schools tried to block the Trump administration’s policy on enforcing immigration laws near schools, they got clobbered in court. The district claimed victory anyway. But on Monday, The Denver Gazette exposed even…
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COLUMN: New book details why Democrats have become dangerous
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sadly, many Democratic voters don’t understand how dangerous their leadership has become, getting their news exclusively from left-leaning sources — The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, social media, etc. — and interacting only with liberal friends and co-workers, they live in a…
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COLUMN: Pathway to happiness: Live the Broadmoor Way
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Not everybody can afford to vacation at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs’ premier 5-star resort, but there’s nothing stopping you from living everyday like you’re there. In founding the hotel at the foot of the Rockies…
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GUEST OPINION: Here’s why Coloradans can’t have good roads
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ’Tis the season when Colorado highways are teeming with summer travelers, all confronted with the inescapable reality that the state government has absolutely failed in its responsibility to maintain our highways. Last month, the American…
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COLUMN: Cruelty as a political feature, not a bug
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save By most standards and for most Americans, these are times of relative comfort. We live in air-conditioned homes; relax in front of enormous television screens; partake of cutting-edge medical technology; access obscure information in seconds;…
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CU regents ‘proud’ of their Wanda James censure | Jimmy Sengenberger
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save University of Colorado Regent Wanda James got caught in a glaring conflict of interest — and instead of owning up, she’s still blaming colleagues who called her out. A bipartisan 7-1 majority of her fellow…
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Governor and DougCo go a bridge too far | Dick Wadhams
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I wonder if the all-Republican Board of Douglas County Commissioners sent Democratic Gov. Jared Polis a thank you note last week. Polis accomplished what looked impossible only a few weeks ago after the Douglas County “home rule” proposal, unilaterally placed on the ballot by the…