Experiencing the Colorado State Capitol for the first time can be overwhelming. When I walked into the building to advocate for better job opportunities for people like me who have returned from prison and saw what I imagined Wall Street was like: crowds of people in suits running to and from important meetings. I never experienced anything like it, and I certainly didn’t expect it to result in a job.
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Orange County Register: John Eastman Should Lose His Law License
By the Editorial Board of the Orange County Register
One of the Boldest Steps to Close the Racial Wealth Divide: a $3,200 Investment for Every Baby Born into Poverty
Juneteenth celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States. But over 150 years later, discriminatory public policies have prevented African Americans from closing the racial wealth divide in this country they helped build.
Being ‘Woke’ Is an American Value
As Scottish literary giant Robert Burns wrote, “The best-laid schemes of mice and men / Go oft awry.”
Extremism is Bad for Business
As Disney learned, supporting statehouse extremists will come back to haunt you. Consumers must teach more businesses that lesson — and fast.
DAVIS: The Small Colorado Town at the Center of Far-Right Plans for American Schools
Twenty miles northwest of Colorado Springs, nestled amongst the conifers behind the first upslopes of the Front Range, the vanguard of a shadowy, well-funded national movement has taken over a school district. Now, the district is being used as a base of operations from which to open a new front in the right wing’s decades-old war on public education.
The Shomer: First They Ban The Books. Then They Ban The People
“An unnatural sex act committed between persons of the male sex or by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed.”