Jon Caldara

Colorado governor Jared Polis is surrounded ...

Caldara: The bullies running Colorado

March 8, 2019 at 12:07 p.m.

It抖阴ap the question I find myself asking almost daily now as the Colorado legislative session roars on: What happened to the liberals who used to say the ends don鈥檛 justify...

Shane Schoepke of Arvada dropping his ...

Caldara: The National Popular Vote without a state popular vote is voter suppression

March 1, 2019 at 4:01 p.m.

There is a constant progressive squawk about voter disenfranchisement.

Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez delivers her inaugural address after she was sworn in as a member of Congress Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen).

Caldara: Making Medicaid work means working to get Medicaid

March 20, 2019 at 2:13 p.m.

Do you remember your first job?

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Caldara: Open negotiations expose intimidation tactics from the Denver teachers’ union

February 15, 2019 at 12:01 p.m.

As I write this, the Denver teachers鈥� strike has just ended with a tentative agreement after a long bargaining session that stretched into the morning hours.

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Caldara: This dude is all for the Equal Rights Amendment

February 8, 2019 at 12:12 p.m.

As the war against 鈥渢oxic masculinity鈥� rages and social identity politics starts to turn on itself like the French Revolution, men may well be the ones protected by the Equal...

DENVER, CO - JANUARY 24: Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper sits in the back of a Tesla Model X electric car before his press conference on Colorado Electric Vehicle Plan from the parking lot of the Alliance Center January 24, 2018. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

Caldara: Progressives are contracting out governing Colorado

February 4, 2019 at 9:47 a.m.

Maybe I鈥檓 off base here, but I can鈥檛 help but notice a theme. Democrats in charge of our state government don鈥檛 want the people of Colorado to be in control...

Boulder Valley school board President Tina Marquis talks to people in the front row as a standing room only crowd waits for the start of Tuesday's board meeting and a vote on the Ascent Classical Academy charter school application.
Photo by Amy Bounds

Caldara: Diversity isn鈥檛 just what抖阴ap between your legs. It抖阴ap also what抖阴ap between your ears.

January 25, 2019 at 12:01 p.m.

To witness a true lack of diversity, look no further than the Boulder Valley School District. On Tuesday the school board voted to reject a charter school application that would...

Drag queen Unita ReadMoore greets ticket-holders before Drag Queen Story Hour on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, at the Clearview Public Library in Windsor, Colo. Drag Queen Story Hour is a program put on by SPLASH, an LGBTQ+ youth outreach organization.

Caldara: Who knew drag queens could be a drag?

January 18, 2019 at 1:47 p.m.

If you don鈥檛 want your kids preached to by drag queens, don鈥檛 drag them to the Drag Queen Story Hour. Just like if you're a man who doesn鈥檛 like gay...

DENVER, CO - JANUARY 8: Anne Waldman of Naropa University gives a poetry recitation during the Inauguration of Governor Jared Polis at the Colorado Capitol January 8, 2019, in Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Joe Amon/The Denver Post)

Caldara: Archie Bunker lives and he now sports a man-bun

January 11, 2019 at 11:30 a.m.

Variations of this love-it-or-leave-it sentiment have echoed in Boulder for years, but it is ramping up statewide as Colorado鈥檚 body politic is swinging hard Boulder-left.

Main image: John Hickenlooper; bottom row from left: Jason Lacy, Jill Adler Grano, Corrine Fowler, Kelly Brough.

Caldara: And the Coloradan winner of the 2018 Californian of the Year Award is鈥�

January 9, 2019 at 12:41 p.m.

Politically speaking, Colorado is turning into California. So, isn鈥檛 it time to admit it and celebrate it?

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