Just hours after a gunman walked into a Boulder supermarket and killed ten innocent people on Monday, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) responded by sending a fundraising email and her “thoughts and prayers” to those affected.
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Fact Check: Would Colorado Violate Federal Law by Limiting Prescription Drug Prices?
In a discussion at the state Capitol last Wednesday, a national pharmaceutical lobbying group claimed that upper price limits set by a prescription drug affordability board (or a PDAB) in Colorado could violate federal law and leave Colorado open to lawsuits.
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‘We Are Boulder:’ How To Deal With Tragedy and Trauma Related To Mass Shootings
Coloradans know all too well what it’s like to deal with tragedy and trauma related to mass shootings.
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McCallister, Parchment Share Meme Alleging Mothers Use Kids as “Pawns” Against Deadbeat Dads
Mark McCallister, candidate for Grand Junction City Council, and former Republican state Senate candidate Rupert Parchment, have shared a meme criticizing single mothers for using their children as “pawns” against fathers who don’t pay child support.
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“A Handmaid’s Tale Fever Dream”: Dem Lawmakers Again Block GOP’s Attempts to Ban Abortion in CO
It’s more or less the same story every year in Colorado’s General Assembly. Republicans introduce ill-fated bills to restrict abortion, lawmakers are forced to spend hours hotly debating the topic, Democrats block said bills, and we all get to move on with our lives.
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A Response to Mark McCallister
Today in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, city council candidate Mark McCallister called a year-old report of ours on his Facebook activity “baseless.”
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Republicans’ Public Registry of Abortions Should Also Include Vasectomies, Erectile Dysfunction
The following is a testimony against Colorado House Bill 1183, which would force abortion providers to collect personal and sensitive information from patients, including one’s reasons for getting an abortion, to be compiled in a public report. The bill failed to advance yesterday following a legislative hearing that ran late into the evening.
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Weld Sheriff Tells Anti-Govt Activists Not to Revolt, Then Calls CO Lawmaker a ‘Terrorist’
Monday evening’s meeting of Keep Colorado Free & Open, a group opposing public-health restrictions, was a tough room for any elected official, but especially a law enforcement officer, even one as conservative as Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams.
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Colorado’s Top Political Media Stuntmasters (e.g., Boebert, Tancredo) and Their Victims in Boulder
You might have thought Tom Tancredo would never be dethroned as Colorado’s king of political media spectacles, but he’s been surpassed by Lauren Boebert.