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The Shomer: Why Gina Carano’s Career Died On That Hill
It’s an unending cycle today, now that the general public has the same access to soapboxes as their celebrity counterparts. And it’s always the same: Celebrity says something that upsets others. Others clap back. Celebrity loses endorsement or gig. Celebrity decries “cancel-culture” and the supposed infringement upon their “First Amendment rights.” Rinse and repeat.
End the Subminimum Tipped Wage
If it’s passed by Congress, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief proposal would do a lot more than fund relief payments and vaccine rollouts. It would also raise the wage floor for all U.S. workers — and give a particularly long overdue raise to restaurant servers, taxi drivers, manicurists, and other tipped workers.
Let’s You and I Talk
I’ve always been befuddled by the way politicians choose to ignore the concerns of the constituents of theirs who do not belong to their base.
Essential Workers Take the Risk, CEOs Take the Reward
Every week, millions of us walk into a Walgreens drugstore without giving it a second thought.
Candidate To Lead CO Republican Party Wants to Debate His Opponents About QAnon, Greene, Sedition
Jonathan Lockwood, once considered a right-wing GOP activist, wants Colorado Republicans to have a “robust conversation about whether we will be the party of Lincoln or loonies.”
CTR Readers Respond: Oil and Gas Pollution Putting Coloradans at Higher COVID Risk
Public Spaces are Important to our Wellbeing and for the Fight Against Climate Change