In 2013, I received a call from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asking me, as a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, to support a pilot program to allow farmers to grow hemp. Knowing Colorado farmers’ interest in the crop, I jumped at the chance and pushed to include the program in the 2014 Farm Bill.
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OPINION: Justifying My Stealth Squirrel War In Denver
The squirrel you see in your yard might be there thanks to me.
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OPINION: Let’s Start Thanking All Government Workers, Not Just The Military, For Their Service
It’s great that we recognize people who’ve served in the U.S. military with the simple acknowledgement of, “Thank you for your service.”
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OPINION: The GOP Tax Bill Is Creating Jobs — Just Not in the U.S.
We should have told them to be more specific. When President Trump and his fellow Republicans in Congress called their massive tax overhaul last year the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” most of us assumed the jobs would be in the United States.
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Is Pokemon Go An Alt-Right Recruiting Tool In Colorado?
As 2018 draws to a close and we begin to reflect on what we probably all agree was another strange year, I’d like to offer this as an emblem of where we’re at: progressive women along Colorado’s Front Range are going around destroying neo-Nazi propaganda that appears to have been strategically placed near — wait for it — Pokemon Go waypoints.
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OPINION: It’s Good To Argue About (And Criticize) Presidents (Like Bush) When They Die
Our death rituals for public figures are evolving.
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How Hanging A Trump Portrait At The Colo Capitol Could Mark The Enlightenment Of The Republican Party
You might think that, for the GOP, hanging a portrait of Trump at the Colorado Capitol, amid inevitable protests and hype, is like begging for another blue Tsunami, even though Colorado Republicans were just flattened then drowned by one, perhaps indefinitely.
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OPINION: Marijuana Legalization Is Coming To America’s Heartland
Marijuana legalization was among the big winners in this year’s elections.
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OPINION: Hickenlooper Says It’s The Republicans Who Are The Overreaching Pigs And/Or Hogs
In a recent Colorado Public Radio interview, host Ryan Warner told Gov. John Hickenlooper that Jeff Hays, Colorado’s Republican Party leader, likened Democrats to pigs who will over-indulge (pass unpopular legislation) and then become fat hogs who will get slaughtered (thrown out of office by voters).
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OPINION: Skip Cyber Monday — Support Real Local Business
“Cyber Monday” is coming up — get out there and buy stuff!