Jon Caldara

Three cases are making their way through Colorado courts, any one of which could change how Coloradans pay for state and local services.

Caldara: The Republican grand betrayal that just keeps getting worse

February 2, 2018 at 4:08 p.m.

Donald Trump and the Republican congress just gave us a large tax cut. But Colorado鈥檚 Republican-controlled state Senate had already taken it away.

A cardboard cutout of Chief Wiggum of "The Simpsons" appears at a 7-Eleven store in New York City on July 2, 2007, as part of a promotion for "The Simpsons Movie."

Caldara: How to hire the chief of police

January 19, 2018 at 2:17 p.m.

Cities deserve the same connection with law enforcement that counties have. We should elect our police chiefs instead of trusting the mayor or a city manager to hire them.

Caldara: At CDOT, mission creep and newspeak

January 5, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

鈥淭ransportation鈥� no longer means what you thought: roads and bridges. It now means whatever planners want it to mean, now or in the future.

Caldara: Surviving the political hell known as Christmas dinner

December 26, 2017 at 9:26 a.m.

In these days of political polarization conversation can turn nuclear in an instant. Here's how to cast your political arguments in terms your opponents might accept.

Dashir Moore came to Colorado in part for the transgender friendly laws and the renowned medical community, but he found his employer had negotiated a health insurance package that didn't cover gender reassignment surgery.

Caldara: Welcome to Colorful East California

December 8, 2017 at 3:50 p.m.

People have always come here, that抖阴ap not news. The real story is people are escaping at record numbers to get away from what the state has sadly become.

Caldara: The assault weapon attack on math

November 13, 2017 at 10:28 a.m.

There鈥檚 no better example of the media鈥檚 ability to emotionally bait an issue out of all mathematical proportion than that of 鈥渁ssault rifles.鈥�

Caldara: Are Boulder鈥檚 housing policies accidentally racist?

October 27, 2017 at 5:42 p.m.

Between 2010 and 2016 Boulder's black population of Boulder dropped by 30 percent. Gotta love progressive policies that victimize the very people progressives seek to help.

Caldara: The sexual harassment double standard

October 13, 2017 at 4:39 p.m.

Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton came to Denver in 2015 with vastly different public reactions. What the Harvey Weinstein story tells us about political double standards.

Caldara: Colorado鈥檚 coming special session of deception

October 2, 2017 at 10:12 a.m.

Gov. John Hickenlooper's call for a special session to fix an error that mistakenly strips away pot taxes from some key special districts in a major new law is a...

Caldara: Economic inequality is Public Enemy No. One

September 15, 2017 at 4:17 p.m.

We need to recognize economic stagnation as the crisis of our generation and address it with the ferocity this country had in any war that threatened our very survival.

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