Rocky Mountain Voice

Menu

Approved

Drive less, bike more? Polis’ transportation vision faces public backlash in one city
No Comments
Approved, Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Drive less, bike more? Polis’ transportation vision faces public backlash in one city

By Jen Schumann | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice Gov. Jared Polis' Administration plans to build 3,540 miles of new bicycle lanes, an 81% increase from the current reality. This goal is one of many outlined in his Administration’s “Colorado Transportation Vision 2035.” The plan is aimed to play a role in helping meet the state’s climate goals. An underlying agenda, or one sub-goal, is explicitly stated in the plan: “Doubling Colorado’s non-auto mode share from today’s level of 9.6% to 19.2% by 2035.” But what does this administrative jargon mean exactly? No speculation is needed. The answer is provided in the plan. “This means that the percentage of trips where people choose to take transit, walk, bike or roll (instead of driving alone) would slightly more than doubl...
Read More
Lee and Lundberg: A call to get involved with Protect Kids Colorado
No Comments
Approved, Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice

Lee and Lundberg: A call to get involved with Protect Kids Colorado

By Erin Lee and Kevin Lundberg | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Protect Kids Colorado (PKC) first launched earlier this year with two citizen initiatives to address the harm being caused by gender ideology in our public schools. Along with several other strong community leaders, we worked overtime to stand up a permanent organization that will protect kids in Colorado from the dangers of transgender ideology through education, citizen initiatives and aggressive oversight of state and local legislation. Our two initiatives that would have simply kept biological males out of girls sports and informed parents when their child has been transitioned in public schools did not make the ballot – not this year anyway. However, hundreds of Coloradans have stepped up to work wit...
Read More
Raleigh: By pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden gave himself a pass
No Comments
Approved, Commentary, National

Raleigh: By pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden gave himself a pass

By Helen Raleigh | Commentary, Helen Raleigh Substack By pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden gave himself a pass for being a failed parent and a corrupt politician. My dad always tells me he loves me unconditionally, but that doesn't mean he will co-sign all my behaviors. One of the fundamental responsibilities of a parent is to teach your child right from wrong, and sometimes such teaching involves discipline, which we commonly refer to as tough love. Hebrews 12:11 reminds all parents, "No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those trained by it." Where Biden failed as a parent is that he either didn't understand or was unwilling to practice tough love. Instead, he equated co-signing H...
Read More
Colorado GOP petitioning Trump to ‘revoke and rescind illegal pardon’
No Comments
Approved, Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Colorado GOP petitioning Trump to ‘revoke and rescind illegal pardon’

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice The Colorado Republican Party is petitioning President-elect Donald J. Trump to revoke and rescind the pardon of Hunter Biden, issued Sunday by his father, President Joe Biden. In a link shared through Twitter on the party's official account, Republicans are asked to sign the petition requesting Trump "revoke and rescind the portions of this pardon that are illegal and unconstitutional after he is sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025." The webpage includes an image of the pardon with Joe Biden's signature. "Joe Biden issued a far sweeping and, quite frankly, illegal pardon for his criminal son Hunter Biden," the webpage begins. "This is not only a clear and corrupt conflict of interest that highlights the double standards of radical Democrats and the...
Read More
‘Is it January yet?,’ new Colorado House Minority Whip Ryan Armagost asks
No Comments
Approved, Rocky Mountain Voice, State

‘Is it January yet?,’ new Colorado House Minority Whip Ryan Armagost asks

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice In four words, Colorado House Minority Whip Ryan Armagost may have summed up his anticipation toward a new leadership role and the sentiment for Republicans in Colorado and throughout America. "Is it January yet???," the District 64 member of the Colorado House of Representatives wrote Monday on Twitter/X, as he opined on the Hunter Biden pardon in Washington. The reference to January, of course, alludes to the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump and the Colorado Republicans having added three seats in the state House. "The morally bankrupt Democrats continue to fizzle into the darkness and show no boundaries of their hypocrisy and blatant disregard for the crimes/criminals that they all support, the victims left behind, and the over...
Read More
Law requiring all eggs sold in Colorado to be cage-free to go into effect as 2025 begins
No Comments
Approved, kdvr.com, State

Law requiring all eggs sold in Colorado to be cage-free to go into effect as 2025 begins

By Samantha Jarpe | Fox 31 News All eggs sold in the state of Colorado will be cage-free starting Jan. 1, 2025. This is because of a law that was passed and signed into law in 2020. The first part of the law already went into effect in 2023. That portion of the law required hens to be given more usable space in order for their eggs to be sold in the state. The portion of the law going into effect in 2025 requires hens to be in a cage-free housing system. There are a few specific requirements farmers have to meet for this to be the case, including giving hens a certain amount of usable floor space. READ THE FULL STORY AT FOX 31 NEWS
Read More
Colorado’s minimum wage is increasing again in 2025 by 2.7%, tipped wage also increasing
No Comments
Approved, State, The Pueblo Chieftain

Colorado’s minimum wage is increasing again in 2025 by 2.7%, tipped wage also increasing

By Justin Reutter | Pueblo Chieftain The Colorado minimum wage will increase by 39 cents in 2025, according to the Colorado Division of Labor Standards and Statistics. Colorado's minimum wage will increase from $14.42 to $14.81, which represents a 2.7% increase. Meanwhile, the tipped minimum wage will increase from $11.40 to $11.79, as the tipped minimum wage can be $3.02 less than the standard minimum, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. read the full story at the Pueblo Cheiftain
Read More
West: ‘No one is above the law,’ unless…
No Comments
Approved, Commentary, National

West: ‘No one is above the law,’ unless…

By Lt. Col. Allen West (ret.) | Commentary, American Constitutional Rights Union Yea, without a doubt, this is the topic de jour, perhaps for the week. In the waning days of the Biden administration, Joe Biden went against his very own words and pardoned his son, Hunter. How many times did we have to hear Biden and his White House mouthpiece, Karinne Jean-Pierre, state that “no one is above the law?” Well, that is true unless you are aligned with the progressive socialist left. And what is even more disconcerting is the comprehensive nature of this pardon…it covers anything over the past 10 years. And to witness Joe Biden doing this and then hopping on a plane to Angola. Just to remind everyone, Hunter Biden, who thought he would get some sugar plea deal, was found guilty of federal ...
Read More
Aurora councilmembers press 3 candidates for council seat about economy, health, public safety
No Comments
Approved, denvergazette.com, Local

Aurora councilmembers press 3 candidates for council seat about economy, health, public safety

By Kyla Pearce | Denver Gazette Aurora councilmembers interviewed three top candidates for a council vacancy Monday night, pressing them about health, policing and public safety. The three candidates are Danielle Lammon, a business owner and chair of the Citizens Advisory Budget Committee; Jonathan McMillan, director of Firearm-Related Harm and Violence Prevention Program Office at the Trailhead Institute; and, Amsalu Kassaw, a lieutenant at Aurora's Immigration and Customs Enforcement  processing center.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE DENVER GAZETTE
Read More
Denver auditor: City’s college scholarship program failed to implement almost all recommendations
No Comments
Approved, coloradopolitics.com, Local

Denver auditor: City’s college scholarship program failed to implement almost all recommendations

By Deborah Grigsby | Denver Gazette via Colorado Politics More than a year after Denver auditors raised concerns about oversight, data management, and quality assurance with the city’s tax-funded college affordability program, a follow-up audit found that the Office of Children’s Affairs has failed to implement the bulk of recommended changes made in the original report. Of the original eight recommendations, auditors noted that Children's Affairs, which oversees the Prosperity Denver Fund program, had only partially implemented two but had not taken steps to address the risks the other six sought to resolve. Back in 2018, Denver voters approved a ballot measure known as Prosperity Denver, which called for a 0.08% sales tax — less than one cent on $10 — and would be distributed in...
Read More