The Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) heard from stakeholders yesterday as part of the legislative implementation process for recently passed Senate Bill 190, which targets “deceptive trade practices” of anti-abortion centers, particularly their marketing of abortion pill reversal, a practice the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists argues is “not supported by science.”
With the end of the legislative session, Republicans in Colorado are giving an accounting of their performance to constituents at town hall events across the state. In the House, Republicans only hold 19 seats, compared to the 46 held by Democrats. In town halls in Douglas and El Paso Counties, Republican representatives expressed frustration at their inability to override Democratic priorities like abortion and gun control.
UFO enthusiasts, ghost hunters, and bigfoot researchers gathered in Cripple Creek this weekend for the first Pikes Peak Paranormal Conference. Founded by cryptozoologist and monster hunter David Eller and paranormal author Jeanne Gripp, the Pikes Peak Paranormal Conference brought together representatives from a wide array of paranormal disciplines, including experts like Chuck Zukowski and Katie Paige, the director of Colorado’s chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Pundits and politicos across the country have heralded the victory of Yemi Mobolade over Republican Wayne Williams in the Colorado Springs mayoral race as a great win for progressive Democrats in Colorado Springs, despite the fact that Mobolade is not a Democrat and has a history of union-busting and wage theft as a business owner.
El Paso County Commissioner Longinos Gonzalez and Colorado Springs City Councilor Dave Donelson appeared Monday on the Richard Randall Show (KVOR-AM) to discuss their commitment to keeping immigrants out of southern Colorado.
Academy School District 20 in Colorado Springs has removed three books from school libraries after receiving a letter from members of a conservative activist group that claims the books meet the legal definition of obscenity, according to emails obtained by a Colorado Open Records Act Request.
The National Day of Prayer has been a part of American politics since 1952, when U.S. Sen. Absalom Robertson (D-VA), father of televangelist Pat Robertson, introduced a bill, supported by famed evangelist Billy Graham, establishing the holiday for the purpose of fighting “the corrosive forces of communism which seek simultaneously to destroy our democratic way of life and the faith in an almighty God on which it is based.”
Since its inception in the 1970s, punk rock has always been an explicitly political genre of music. Seminal British punks The Clash wrote songs inspired by radical left-wing ideology — opposition to police repression, support for militant groups like the Sandinistas and the Red Brigades, and a rejection of capitalism, consumerism and Margaret Thatcher. In American in the 1980s, hardcore punk emerged in response to the new conservatism of Ronald Reagan. Bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains, the Circle Jerks, and others mixed the political messages of traditional punk with a faster, harder, more aggressive musicality. Presaging the political polarization and violence of our modern era, punk shows in the 1980s became battlegrounds between punks and racist skinheads, establishing punk’s reputation as a safe space for minorities, women, and LGBTQ people.
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) celebrated its 25th anniversary and the recent passage of the Colorado Democrats’ “Safe Access to Protected Health Care” package of legislation during a Thursday event in Denver’s Santa Fe Art District.
