What do you get when you mix drag queens, charity bingo games, booze, and self-described psychonauts? You get Colorado’s official welcome party for the Psychedelic Science 2023 convention.
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Eastman Once Defended Jan. 6 Mob, Saying Some Were ‘Paid by News Organizations To Get Video of Violence’ To ‘Build a False Narrative’
Over two years after the Jan. 6, insurrection, former Trump lawyer John Eastman — who’s facing disbarment in California — defended the mob, telling a right-wing podcaster in Colorado that some Jan. 6 insurrectionists were “people paid by news organizations to get video of violence so that that could build a false narrative” and that anti-Trump operatives manipulated the protesters by hiding barricades at the U.S. Capitol. Both claims are baseless. Here is the Colorado Times Recorder’s story published in 2022.
42 States Are More Affordable to Live in Than Colorado; Decent Housing More Challenging to Find, Study Shows
In a recently released study, Colorado was ranked the eighth least affordable state to live in, further complicating low-income workers’ access to affordable housing.
Colo GOP Chair Threatens Previous Republican Congressional Candidate With Libertarian Spoiler if She Runs Again
Republican Party chairs aren’t supposed to show a preference for candidates within their own party. Yesterday, however, Colorado Chair Dave Williams flat-out warned state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, who lost a nailbiter in last year’s race for Colorado’s new 8th Congressional District (CD8), that if she runs again, she’ll face not only incumbent Democrat Yadira Caraveo but a Libertarian Party candidate as well. That could lead to a repeat of the scenario from 2022 in which Libertarian Richard Ward earned several thousand more votes than the 1,500 vote difference between Caraveo and Kirkmeyer.
Slimy, Scaly, or Obscene: It’s Time to Love (and Maybe Eat) the Mushrooms in Your Yard
If you’ve got something long and stinky growing in your yard, don’t be scared. It’s probably a mushroom, and you may be able to eat it. And with all the rain in Colorado lately, all kinds of fungus are waiting for you on grass, mulch, and stumps.
Focus on the Family Partner Leads National Campaign Restricting Transgender Rights
Three decades after Focus on the Family battled the “gay agenda” in Colorado by promoting Amendment 2, it has a powerful partner that is waging a successful battle against “transgender ideology” with legislation already enacted in 21 states.
Bennet, Hickenlooper Introduce The Right to Contraception Act
Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO), alongside others, have introduced the Right to Contraception Act, which would codify and strengthen the legal right to contraceptives.
The Fight for Housing in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, like many cities along the Front Range, is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. Paradoxically, while the citizens of Colorado Springs want “something to be done” about the “homeless problem,” projects that attempt to address that problem — by building more houses — face concerted opposition from community members.
On Flag Day, a Veteran, Who’s Unhoused and Terminally ill, Is Honored
Daniel, an unhoused military veteran, received several commemorative gifts to thank him for his service in a small but intimate ceremony yesterday at a shelter for terminally ill unhoused people.
Colorado GOP Plans to Hire John Eastman for 2nd Try To Overturn Voter-Approved Open Primary Law
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Republicans are hiring conservative attorney John Eastman to attempt to overturn the will of the voters. Any déja vu you may be experiencing is understandable. The difference is instead of Trump hiring him to flip a presidential election, now the Colorado GOP wants Eastman to sue the state to overturn Proposition 108, the ballot initiative passed by a wide margin in 2016 that opened our major party primary elections to independent voters.