Ian Silverii

Central American migrants wait for food in a pen erected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to process a surge of migrant families and unaccompanied minors in El Paso, Texas on March 27, 2019.

Silverii: These detention centers should never have been allowed on U.S. soil

June 28, 2019 at 2:51 p.m.

I personally have no interest in arguing whether the camps on our southern border full of kids in cages count as 鈥渃oncentration camps鈥� or not. But the very fact that...

Jane Dailey protests President-elect Donald Trump.

Silverii: Ditch the Electoral College and the inequality it perpetuates

June 14, 2019 at 12:01 p.m.

Now that the ill-fated recall effort against state Rep. Tom Sullivan has fizzled like a dollar store seltzer tablet, the same folks being paid to push the failed ideologies of...

Silverii: Effort to recall Rep. Sullivan exposes the worst of the Colorado GOP

May 17, 2019 at 1:35 p.m.

How do we as Coloradans honor the memory of Alex Sullivan, a young man who鈥檚 life was cut short on his 27th birthday when he was murdered in the 2012...

Gov. Jared Polis signs a bill Thursday, March 28, 2019, that will require hospitals to report the finances to the state.

Silverii: The Colorado GOP quickly went from #NeverTrump to #NeverAnything

May 3, 2019 at 3:57 p.m.

Out of all of the sessions I have observed or participated in since 2007, this will be remembered as one of the most productive, exciting, dramatic, and consequential, despite the...

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, left, hands ...

Silverii: All that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has done with his first 100 days

April 19, 2019 at 12:00 p.m.

Progress is indeed hard, and we鈥檙e not going to agree on everything, but getting the word out about the massive accomplishments in Polis鈥� first 100 days seems harder than it...

Rep. Rochelle Galindo stands with fellow ...

Silverii: Show me a recall effort of Colorado Democrats and I’ll show you a bigot

April 8, 2019 at 11:27 a.m.

In a 鈥渟ermon鈥� titled 鈥淰ictory Over Being Offended,鈥� Pastor Steve Grant of Destiny Christian Center in Greeley disparages nearly every religion other than the one he claims to practice in...

Silverii: Colorado GOP’s apocalyptic predictions are really just lies

March 8, 2019 at 3:58 p.m.

The lies I鈥檓 talking about are apocalyptic predictions for every modest piece of legislation intended to advance progress.

The Denver Post found that the oil and gas industry has poured more than $80 million into Colorado in the last four years to shape public opinion and influence campaigns and ballot initiatives, creating a political force that has had broad implications throughout the state.

Silverii: It’s rich for Colorado’s oil and gas industry to call for lawmakers to be “responsible” after backing a catastrophic amendment

February 22, 2019 at 12:01 p.m.

Amendment 74 was a dead-serious attempt by energy giants such as Extraction Oil and Gas, Anadarko Petroleum, Noble Energy and their advocates in the Colorado Petroleum Council to create an...

U.S. President Donald Trump (C) presides ...

Silverii: Yes, we remember all those “good things” Trump and Gardner have done for Colorado

February 10, 2019 at 6:08 p.m.

While Special Counsel Robert Mueller closes in on Trump鈥檚 closest associates -- the Nixon-tattooed-Roger Stone the most recently indicted -- Gardner suddenly decided that now is the time to endorse...

Silverii: Is Polis with Republicans on tax cuts? Not even close.

January 25, 2019 at 3:28 p.m.

Amid all of this early progress on campaign pledges, there was one thing that confused some progressive politicos in Colorado: a tweet from the governor in support of a Republican...

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