Commentary

Applegate: Possible solutions for El Paso County’s immigration problem

El Paso County recently saw two busloads of immigrants here illegally come down from Denver. Since Denver’s sanctuary city policies create their own fiscal burden, they now claim they cannot afford to keep taking care of lawbreakers they attracted in the first place.

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Gaines: Imagine if journalists covered guns like they do abortion

I think you can take Democrat House Majority Leader Duran at her word when she recently told CPR News, that she and her colleagues made passing gun control legislation “…routine, just as anything else that we run.”  Since taking over all levers of power at the state level, and suffering no negative consequences, majority Democrats have indeed made gun control legislation “routine” in Colorado.

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Southern Utes accuse Durango of secret efforts to annex tribal lands, following CORA requests

The Southern Ute Indian Tribe has often faced attacks on its jurisdiction since that time in an effort by non-tribal members to undermine the Tribe’s sovereignty and economically benefit non-Natives. Few of those have been as brazen as that of Brunot. However, this year the Tribe experienced another attack with the actions of the City of Durango (City) in attempting to annex Reservation land, which Tribal Council swiftly addressed. 

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Sloan: The DEI facade is showing cracks

Last week, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s board of trustees did what only a short time ago would have been considered an unthinkable act of social regression: they voted, unanimously, to not only cut the $2.3 million funding of the institution’s DEI program, but to reroute that money into public safety – yes, meaning campus police. 

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