Silverii: The best kept (bipartisan) secrets of the 2022 General Assembly
The Colorado General Assembly in 2022 saw a torrent of lawmaking: 514 bills were passed by the legislature, Gov. Jared Polis has signed 175 of them with no vetos (so...
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Silverii: Alito’s ruling targets the LGBTQ community for the next reversal of rights
After a draft of Justice Samuel Alito鈥檚 ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey became public, it appears that the United States Supreme Court is poised...
Silverii: Who is to blame for the GOP’s ballot of extremists?
The establishment has no one to blame but themselves. The GOP spent years coddling conspiracists, promoting cynical opportunism, and refusing to deal with the very real threats to democracy.
Silverii: Colorado Republicans gather and support the worst of the worst
Last weekend鈥檚 state assemblies showed that Republicans could squander their 2022 opportunities -- Biden's low approval rating, inflation, a pending war. So embarrassing were the assemblies, I almost feel bad...
Silverii: Big Oil profits when prices surge, and corporations will cash in on this crisis
Contrary to what Republicans and many of their allies in the fossil fuel industry would like you to believe, which party holds the White House, Congress, the Colorado Governor鈥檚 Office...
Silverii: Polis’ earnest plan to address crime
Our elected representatives in Denver are making earnest attempts to address the issue of crime prevention. Gov. Jared Polis has requested an historic investment of $113 million this year for...
Silverii: Don’t attack teachers for speaking up when the school board tears the district apart
Schools in Douglas County were closed earlier this week after at least 1,500 teachers called in sick to protest the illegal and unethical actions of the recently installed conservative school...
抖阴ap: Conservatives’ cycle — starve government, cut services, spark social crisis, blame government
First, conservatives tell you government doesn鈥檛 work, then they defund it at every opportunity, then they point at broken and underfunded systems and say, 鈥渟ee, government doesn鈥檛 work.鈥�
Silverii: Republicans are trying to scare you with exaggerations of crime
Colorado Republicans know they need a different strategy for 2022, so they鈥檙e dusting off an old idea: literally scare people into voting for them.
Silverii: It should be Republicans responding to Boebert抖阴ap bigoted punch lines
It was a stem-winder. Boebert made bigotry a bit, a stand-up routine in which she breaks for applause and laughs. She knows where the beats are.