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State fires back at Peters’ jurisdiction challenge, rejects pardon and supremacy claims
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State fires back at Peters’ jurisdiction challenge, rejects pardon and supremacy claims

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice Fifteen months after Tina Peters was taken into custody at sentencing, and as she marks a second New Year behind bars, Colorado’s Attorney General moved to answer her latest court filing, pushing back on a motion that asks the Court of Appeals to decide whether it even has jurisdiction to proceed. Filed Monday afternoon on Jan. 5, the 23-page brief from Senior Assistant Attorneys General Nora Passamaneck and Lisa K. Michaels argues that President Trump's pardon holds no sway over Peters' state convictions—and that the Colorado Court of Appeals should press forward with her appeal without missing a beat. This latest filing comes on the heels of Peters' Dec. 23 motion, which RMV covered in detail. Citing the pardon and Suprem...
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The Arkansas Valley Conduit debate: What headlines leave out
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The Arkansas Valley Conduit debate: What headlines leave out

By Bob Cooper | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice In the last week we have seen media all over the state cover Trump's veto of the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act. All the headlines point to Trump punishing Colorado and depriving people of having clean water. However, none of the media covered important details about the project. Nor have they asked key questions. Is the project viable and should federal funds be used to support the project?    Consider this background info from federal documents for the project: “The purpose of AVC is to deliver water for municipal and industrial water use within Southeastern’s boundaries. This water supply is needed to supplement or replace existing poor quality water and to help meet AVC participants’ proj...
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When outages become policy: Colorado’s energy accountability gap
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When outages become policy: Colorado’s energy accountability gap

By RMV Editorial Board The mid-December power shutoffs weren’t a weather anomaly or a one-off emergency. They were planned. And for tens of thousands of Coloradans, that fact changed everything. Families scrambled for generators. Hospitals shifted to contingency plans. Small businesses began calculating losses they may never recover. What followed stripped away the abstractions surrounding Colorado’s energy agenda. Policy decisions once discussed in targets, timelines and rulemakings showed up in daily life.  For readers who missed it, that concern was put on the record on Dec. 23, when Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Gov. Jared Polis, calling on him to reverse his electrification agenda and rein in the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). And th...
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New York’s Collectivist Experiment: A Cautionary Tale for Colorado Too
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New York’s Collectivist Experiment: A Cautionary Tale for Colorado Too

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice In his inaugural remarks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said New York should “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”  https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/2006823362182394125?s=20 It sounded philosophical. For many residents listening, though, it also sounded practical—a signal that the city was preparing to step in more forcefully as everyday costs continued to rise. This shift, driven by mounting financial pressures on families, risks long-term trade-offs in housing supply, job growth, public services, and safety—are issues explored below. The appeal of collectivism in a city like New York does not begin with theory. It begins with pressure. ...
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There is No Such Thing as “Non-Partisan” 
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There is No Such Thing as “Non-Partisan” 

By Michael J Badagliacco, “MJB” | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice I recently stumbled across yet another sanctimonious article whining that school boards, city councils, and other local bodies are supposed to be “non-partisan.” The author practically clutched their pearls at the thought of politics creeping into these sacred spaces. Absolute BUNK! There is no such thing as “non-partisan,” never has been, and pretending otherwise is intellectual dishonesty wrapped in a bow of naive wishful thinking. The “Non-Partisan” Myth Is a Dangerous Delusion This whole non-partisan charade is sold as some noble experiment: take the big, bad party labels off the ballot and, poof, suddenly everyone becomes a pure-hearted servant of the public good, free from ideology, bias, or...
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Serving Together — Mature Language of Love
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Serving Together — Mature Language of Love

By Pastor Drake Hunter | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. ~ Galatians 5:13 ~ If love is who we are, what does it look like when we put that love to work? Interesting question. There is a special kind of strength that emerges when God’s people connect, bond, and pray... they serve together, which is the language of love. It’s a strength that the world cannot produce or imitate. This strength of unity is created—not by power, preference, or personality—but by love in action. Service occurs when freedom intersects with humility, and grace aligns with responsibility and accountability to the greater good. Service is the...
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After the rhetoric, Colorado secures $200 million for rural health care
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After the rhetoric, Colorado secures $200 million for rural health care

By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice “People will die—tens of thousands, perhaps year after year after year—as a result of the Republican assault on the health care of the American people.” That’s what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said on July 3, during the longest speech in House history, in an effort to delay passage of H.R. 1—a.k.a. the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB)—before it was sent to President Trump for signature. The eight-hour-plus speech set a tone, framing the bill as “a crime scene.” The 43-day shutdown fight came with its own healthcare messaging. “Republicans have tried to stick us with a partisan CR that fails to protect Americans’ healthcare,” the Democrat leader said on the Senate floor. With the performative politicking now in the re...
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When caps don’t cap costs
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When caps don’t cap costs

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice A familiar promise, a familiar frustration Voters are often told that a policy includes a built-in safeguard — a cap, a limit, a hard stop designed to keep costs under control. In Colorado, that promise came with the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, approved by voters in 1992 as a constitutional amendment limiting how much revenue state and local governments can keep and spend without voter approval. Nationally, it appeared in the Affordable Care Act’s limits on how much of each insurance premium can be kept for administration and profit under the law’s medical loss ratio rules. The two systems regulate very different things. One governs government revenue, the other private insurance markets.  But cr...
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“Not a Land Grab”
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“Not a Land Grab”

By Aimee Tooker | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice The proposed Dolores River National Conservation Area is a total of 68,000 acres along the river in Montezuma, Dolores and San Miguel Counties and was the result of over 15 years of stakeholder engagement. Despite the remote and beautiful nature of the Dolores River, over a century of coordinated collaboration among stakeholders has determined its optimal usage and management, and those local conversations excluded the use of both Wild and Scenic status as well as a designation as a National Monument.  A “Land Grab” would have been a 500,000-acre National Monument signed over by one President. This NCA proposal does NOT include any land in Montrose and Mesa counties and the critical mineral resource known as the Ur...
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Rocky Mountain Voice’s Most Viral Moments of 2025
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Rocky Mountain Voice’s Most Viral Moments of 2025

By RMV Editorial Board 2025 was not a year that allowed anyone to stay on autopilot. It opened with President Donald Trump’s second inauguration and a sweeping federal reset that followed — more than 280 executive orders touching immigration, energy, enforcement, and regulatory authority. It was also a year marked by national tragedy, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk, an event that sent shockwaves through Colorado and reshaped the tone of public discourse. Against that backdrop, Rocky Mountain Voice didn’t just keep up with the news cycle — it documented it. And more importantly, readers stayed. What the work added up to Rocky Mountain Voice published more than 800 original articles in 2025, written by 98 independent writers across Color...
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