Last week, at an election night party, a few folks who know me primarily from my work as a journalist asked if I was attending the event in hopes of writing a story about it. When I told them no, that I was just there as a friend and supporter of the candidate, one or two of them expressed surprise. Pleasant surprise, but surprise nonetheless.
As the Trump regime attacks the foundations of our democracy, Americans are fighting back.
Alarm bells have rung in the halls of power as vibrant, progressive candidates have swept Democratic primaries in recent weeks. Now, members of the center-left political establishment, desperate to cling to the sclerotic approach which has driven the Democratic Party to its electoral nadir, are joining hands with Republicans to decry the upstart winners as an existential threat.
Costs are rising. Instead of confronting those problems, some GOP officials turned June into a culture-war campaign.
Editor’s Note: In a Denver 7 interview this week, U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO) stated that “part of me gets a little bit frustrated” when people ask about his grandfather.
A domestic terrorist plot was disrupted two weeks ago, and virtually nobody in the media or government is describing it for what it was: a work of Christian extremism. The plot is another datapoint indicating the nation’s growing problem with Christian nationalist violence, a phenomenon which has been mostly obscured by the mainstream media’s unwillingness to describe it accurately.
The Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) is an irrational, far-right, arguably unconstitutional handicap on Colorado’s ability to thrive and self-govern. And those detriments recently became more apparent as the state Legislature faced massive budget shortfalls.
KATRINA BLAIR … If you lived in Durango, you knew Katrina. Her family was prominent. Her dad a geomorphologist at the Fort. He founded the Mountain Studies Institute originally to be a Silverton-based repository for all the extant scientific papers about the San Juan Mountains. As a county commissioner, I joined an early board. Her dad and I and Katrina loved Dolores LaChapelle. Helped scatter her ashes into the waterfalls of South Fork Mineral Creek …
