The U.S. Senate race between Colorado state Rep. Ron Hanks (R-Cañon City) and businessman Joe O’Dea is highlighting a growing divide amongst Republicans on the subject of abortion. The debate over how extreme GOP politicians should be on abortion has not just affected Colorado’s Senate race, but was also front and center in Louisiana, where earlier this month House Bill 813, a near duplicate of Rep. Dave Williams’s (R-CO Springs) failed personhood bill, was blocked not by pro-abortion Democrats, but by Republicans and anti-abortion groups that felt it went too far.

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0CO Enviro Groups Ask State to Widen Scope When Evaluating Harmful Impacts of Oil and Gas Industry
Last week a coalition of 33 environmental groups in Colorado wrote a letter asking the state to include analyses of already existing ozone, air pollution, and climate change impacts when evaluating the effects of pollution from oil and gas operations.
Our National Pathology Over Guns Is No Longer Insane. It’s Inhuman.
This commentary originally appeared in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star and Colorado Newsline.
To Protect Our Climate, Colorado Needs to Phase Out Fracking, Transition Away From Fossil Fuels Now
Earlier this month, The Guardian published an article entitled: US Fracking Boom Could Tip World to Edge of Climate Disaster. The article opens: “The fate of the vast quantities of oil and gas lodged under the shale, mud, and sandstone of American drilling fields will in large part determine whether the world retains a liveable climate. And the US, the world’s largest extractor of oil, is poised to unleash these fossil fuels in spectacular volumes.”
Capitol Gains: What You Were Supposed To Know About Two State Senators
A promising political career unraveled this spring when New York’s lieutenant governor Brian Benjamin was arrested. Benjamin, only 45 years-old, was an up and comer in state Democratic politics, having served four years in the state Senate before rising to the position of lieutenant governor in the wake of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s downfall.
Boebert Blasts O’Rourke, AOC, Argues Against Gun Laws in Wake of Mass Shootings
Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert on Wednesday tweeted lawmakers are powerless to stop mass shootings like Tuesday’s slaughter of 19 elementary school students in Uvalde, Texas, writing, “You cannot legislate away evil.”
If You Get COVID-19 Now, What Are the Newest Treatments and Medications?
COVID-19 infections are surging again, so if you are feeling sick, it’s important to get tested as quickly as possible.
El Paso County Leaders Address Recent Controversies at ‘Hold the Line’
Last Friday’s Hold the Line conference at The Road Church in Colorado Springs featured not just national evangelical thought leaders Sean Feucht and Eric Metaxas and federal legislators Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), but a slate of local elected officials as well. El Paso County Commissioner Stan VanderWerf, Colorado Springs City Councilor Dave Donelson, and Academy School District 20 and Pikes Peak Library District board member Aaron Salt spoke with Steve Holt, pastor of The Road Church, during a brief panel discussion.
Yet Another Colorado Republican Fundraiser Giving Away an AR-15 Rifle
To encourage citizens to attend its June 11 “Big Tent” candidate debate, Teller Country Republican Party will be once again giving away a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle to the winner of its “Awesome Silent Auction.”