The race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District (CD3), which includes most of the state’s mountainous Western Slope, looks dramatically different with last week’s sudden exit of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), but one thing remains the same no matter who’s running in 2024.
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Boebert Silent on Trump’s ‘Never Give Up’ Threat to Repeal Obamacare
Since bursting onto the political scene in the spring of 2020, Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has been asked early and often about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and whether she supports former President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to repeal the increasingly popular healthcare law.
Reproductive Rights Should Not Be a ‘Political Issue,’ Says ‘Office’ Actress Melora Hardin
VAIL, Colo. — Melora Hardin sees certain aspects of her five-decade Hollywood journey in Mabel Montgomery-Mayflower, the tragically fallen 60s starlet she plays in her new, one-woman film “Golden Vanity”. But let’s be clear, the film is in no way biographical: Hardin is a happy, hard-working and clearly quite gifted actress with a husband and two daughters.
This Isn’t ‘Conspiracy Theory Land,’ Says Grand Junction Mayor Who’s Challenging Boebert
Grand Junction Mayor Anna Stout doesn’t get angry when people paint her Western Slope Colorado city as a hotbed of conspiracy theorists, election deniers and Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
Eagle County GOP Won’t Abide by GOP Rule Allowing Officers To Oppose Fellow Republicans in Primary Elections
EAGLEVAIL, Colo. — If “all politics is local, as former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill was fond of saying, then it makes sense during these extremely divided and dangerous times to ask local party officials where they stand on political violence, election deniers and party primary neutrality.
Colorado Crypto Community Leery As Congress Sharpens Regulatory Knives Due to Failures, Terror Funding
Color Taylor Kendal “skeptically optimistic” when it comes to what Forbes Magazine describes as a “storm of crypto legislation” over the summer that’s currently mired in an exceptional level of congressional gridlock but enjoys support among Colorado lawmakers.
Anti-Trump Jimmy Carter, Who Turned 99 on Sunday, Is a Builder, Not a Destroyer
VAIL, Colo. — J.C. is the anti-Trump. No, not that J.C. I’m talking about Jimmy Carter – the 39th president of the United States, who turned 99 on Sunday.
Freedom Conference: Red Meat on the Table at Beaver Creek This Weekend
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. – Only today’s snarling cult-of-Trump Republican Party could make people feel warm, fuzzy, and nostalgic for the days of Dick Cheney at this posh, gated ski resort near Vail. Of course, the former vice president and Iraq War architect had more than his share of local detractors back in the day.
Selection of Eastman As Visiting Scholar at CU Was Flawed from the Get-Go, Says Chair of Metro Political Science Department
Political science professor Robert Preuhs, a CU alumnus, understands the intent of the University of Colorado’s conservative Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, but he says the program has been poorly executed and therefore is highly problematic for a number of reasons.
From Pence to Luttig to Ford, How Democracy Nearly Sailed Off a Cliff in Vail
VAIL, Colo. — Impeachment politics and the possibility of presidential prosecution surprisingly keep cropping up here in Vail, where new Jan. 6 revelations are about as unexpected as an affordable place to live, a free parking space, untrammeled powder on a Saturday or a decent burger for under $20.