Amendment 84 would create a risk to our private info
Re: “Voter fraud is rare, but we can make it rarer with Amendment 84,” Sept. 13 opinion column
Krista Kafer thinks that compromising the private information of over three million Colorado voters because of three fraudulent votes is going to restore confidence in our election system? Do the math and decide if you think the system needs to be fixed. Also, consider the more than two million dollars in dark money coming in from out of state to support the measure.
Ask yourself who? You can’t find out. And why whoever it is wants this passed.
Jim Alexander, Englewood
Natural gas is under attack; Vote yes on Amendment 82
Re: “Why put natural gas in the Constitution?” Sept. 20 editorial
We shouldn’t need a constitutional amendment to ensure access to clean, affordable and reliable energy. But we do need it since state regulators are effectively trying to ban natural gas by 2035. 75% of Colorado homes use natural gas for heat. Electrification of a home can easily cost $10,000 to $20,000 or more if you need upgraded service. Think rebates will help? Those will be funded through rate increases, so you pay that too. Even with an efficient heat pump, heating bills will nearly double. If Weld County’s $1.67 billion Chalk Bluffs wind and solar project concerns you, consider how many of those facilities in Colorado it would take to replace the energy content of the natural gas used for heating and cooking, even with heat pumps. Vote yes on Amendment 82 – The right to natural gas.
Alan Frohbieter, Superior
Save the bears. CPW should feed them in the wild.
Re: “Nearly 300 bears euthanized as sightings spike,” Sept. 5 news story
Colorado’s black bears are facing a severe food shortage this year, and they are starving. The lack of natural food is pushing them into areas they would normally avoid, including places with heavy human activity. They end up moving through neighborhoods at night, lurking in the shadows as though they are doing something wrong, when they are simply trying to find enough food to survive.
In all of 2025, CPW killed 78 bears because of human conflict. By August 31, 2026, 294 bears had already been killed. That is nearly four times as many, with fall feeding season still underway.
This is not a normal year. Extreme drought has wiped out much of the bears’ natural food, forcing them into neighborhoods desperate for calories. During hyperphagia, bears need roughly 20,000 calories a day to bulk up enough to survive the winter. A bear looking for food is not the same thing as a bear looking for trouble.
We have developed and degraded their habitat, watched their natural food disappear, and then act surprised when they come to our trash cans for something to eat. A hungry bear should not get a death sentence for simply trying to survive.
CPW should consider a professionally managed emergency feeding or diversionary-feeding program in carefully selected remote areas, far from homes and roads, with high-energy pellets and strict monitoring.
We cannot eradicate their habitat, leave them starving, tell them to stay out of our neighborhoods, and then kill them when they do not have anywhere else to go.
Give them another option.
Regina Hopkins, Lakewood
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