Rocky Mountain Voice

‘When you are at that podium, the last thing on your mind is this’: Sen. Cory Gardner, who Trump rallied for in 2019

Some 43 years ago a small child in Yuma, Colo., on the far Eastern Plains of the state would end his days in prayer for President Ronald Reagan’s health after a would-be assassin’s bullet hospitalized him.

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Ganahl: Is Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’s emergency declaration a public health measure or political maneuver for the White House?

When Gov. Jared Polis declared a state of disaster in Colorado because of a surge in Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), known commonly as bird flu, it ignited both a mix of public concern and political debate.

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Ashbaugh: How a Latino Democrat and a Black Republican opened a white, middle-aged woman’s eyes 

The Republican friend of mine who I so quickly judged, as we reconnected after years of not seeing each other, was Lavelle Lewis, a football and basketball player who I’d cheered for during our years at IHS in Rochester, N. Y. After a couple of cups of coffee, I realized that as liberal as I was, Lavelle and I weren’t so different.

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Tooker: Why am I opposed to the 400,000-acre proposed Dolores River National Monument?

The proposed Dolores River National Monument will stonewall all economic processes that our community has worked toward. We deserve the opportunity to see those locally-led and locally-developed processes through. We do not want to be force-fed a single recreation industry, nor do we want to be wiped off the map like other national monument communities.

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Wood: Gov. Polis’ ‘Roadmap 2.0’ is not economically sustainable, equitable, environmentally balanced or fact-based

This past February, Gov. Jared Polis introduced his “Roadmap 2.0” that aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and achieve net-zero emissions in Colorado by 2050.

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