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Friednash: Jason Crow’s mission to save American allies in Afghanistan
Congressman Jason Crow is the kind of person you want in your foxhole when things get rough.

Friednash: We’re not just divided on vaccines. We’re in different realities.
The unvarnished truth is that America is made up of warring tribes that are both manipulating facts and worshiping at the altar of their own curated set of truths, and...

Friednash: Asking Coloradans to keep their TABOR refunds may be dead on arrival
If lawmakers are serious about keeping $3 billion in TABOR refunds, it will take every bit of the intervening months to craft a plan that is not dead on arrival.

Friednash: Trump’s shady Space Command move was a political slight to Colorado
Shady. Thatap the best word to describe the Trump administration’s decision to move the Space Command from its home in Colorado Springs to Huntsville, Alabama.

Friednash: New York’s election disaster should scare anyone looking at ranked-choice voting
Ranked-choice voting in Denver? New York City’s Democratic Mayoral primary gives us a front-row seat for why that's not a good idea.

Friednash: With Polis’ signature, Colorado will finally compete with Utah on infrastructure
Utah was the gold standard, spending billions on their transportation infrastructure, while Colorado’s roads and bridges were dangerously crumbling with frustrated drivers stewing while sitting in traffic with no relief...

Friednash: Anti-Semitism flares in the U.S., even among some Democrats in Congress
To say that we must condemn Israel’s acts of self-defense as a sovereign country against indiscriminate attacks by a terrorist organization is to ignore the facts on the ground.

Friednash: Donald Trump’s Supreme Court is prepping to dismantle abortion rights
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court is preparing to dismantle the constitutional right to a safe and legal abortion.

Friednash: A bipartisan appointment may help bridge Colorado’s urban-rural divide
As far as anyone I've spoken to remembers, every committee chair and vice-chair have been members of the majority party. This is also true in other states and in Congress....

Friednash: Establishing shantytowns in Denver would be like abandoning all hope for the city’s homeless
In the absence of either the collective willpower or a national strategy to meaningfully address homelessness and its root causes, some neighborhoods in American cities -- urban, suburban and rural...