Ian Silverii

Former U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., announces his bid for a second term in the Senate at the Shattuck Superfund cleanup site in Denver Jan. 7, 2002. His wife Joan looks on in the background.

Silverii: Cory Gardner should revisit Wayne Allard’s Clinton impeachment diary for guidance

November 29, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.

Allard wrote an impeachment diary for the Rocky Mountain News throughout President Bill Clinton鈥檚 impeachment trial in the Senate from Jan. 9, 1999 through Feb. 13, 1999. It offers a...

Election judge Amanda Vigil, right, gathers ...

Silverii: Prop. CC fell victim to an electorate warped by low turnout

November 18, 2019 at 10:21 a.m.

The electorate that turns out to vote in odd-numbered years in Colorado has significant differences from the far greater numbers who vote in major elections.

Joseph Santoro, left, and Dave DeCenzo, ...

Silverii: Colorado’s GOP spent political capital and $300K for two almost-empty Budweiser boxes

November 4, 2019 at 10:46 a.m.

Here鈥檚 what really happened: Ken Buck and company started a fight they couldn鈥檛 finish. Their feeble attempts to overturn the results of a free and fair election resulted in the...

Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., steps off ...

Silverii: Gardner’s exit from Trumpland is already blocked

October 4, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.

If Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner intends to play the role of Barry Goldwater to our modern-day Nixon, he apparently skipped the part about speaking truth to power and focused instead...

Silverii: Colorado media failed to cover the GOP’s spectacular recall failures

September 23, 2019 at 9:53 a.m.

Ordinarily, the point of reading a story is to get to the ending.聽 It抖阴ap the conclusion, the denouement, when all of the threads from the previous pages get tied up...

Silverii: Colorado GOP leaders really just rallied in support of cruelty and detention

September 9, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.

These Republican leaders overtly, outwardly and vocally support the indefinite separation and detention of families and this administration鈥檚 shocking refusal to provide medical care to sick children.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and U.S. ...

Silverii: In the Democratic race to replace Sen. Cory Gardner, the more the merrier

August 22, 2019 at 11:29 a.m.

鈥淚n a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.鈥�

Walmart employees comfort one another after ...

Silverii: Why can’t we do anything about El Paso and Dayton? Politicians like Sen. Cory Gardner

August 11, 2019 at 8:49 a.m.

Blaming mass shootings on people with mental illnesses is a lazy, convenient way to point attention away from the real problems.

A man unplugs his Nissan Leaf electric vehicle after charging it at a dealership in Boulder on Sept. 11, 2015.

Silverii: Support Colorado’s push for zero-emission vehicle even if you don’t want an electric vehicle

July 26, 2019 at 5:01 p.m.

At the end of 2015, my wife and I were suddenly in the market for two cars at the same time. Being folks of average incomes, we weren鈥檛 really prepared...

Storm clouds gather before the fireworks ...

Silverii: I thought we were better than this exclusionary growth limit, Lakewood

July 12, 2019 at 12:01 p.m.

Try to afford buying a new place anywhere near civilization if you sell your house, and then ask yourself if the government should be artificially restricting the supply of housing...

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