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Guest Post: How many teacher deaths are we OK with?

Sara Woodyard - July 20, 2020

Guest Post: Child care costs in Colorado — why some moms don’t take the raise

Kayla Q Frawley - July 17, 2020

Volunteers partnered with Larimer County Natural Resources Department to help open up a wildlife corridor in Red Mountain Open Space. (Photo by Colorado State Forest Service via Flickr: Creative Commons)

Guest Post: Colorado should build a wall – of nature

Guest Posts Gary Wockner - August 7, 2019

If you think it’s bad now, the worst is still to come. In a news report two weeks ago, the Colorado state demographer stated...

Gross Dam in Boulder County (Photo by David Herrold via Flickr: Creative Commons)

Guest Post: NIMBYs are Earth Warriors

Guest Posts Gary Wockner - July 24, 2019

Last weekend I stood in the back yard of a mountain house overlooking the massive proposed expansion of Gross Dam in western Boulder County....

NEW YORK, NY - Hundreds of immigrant rights advocates and others participate in rally and and demonstration at the Federal Building in lower Manhattan against on June 1, 2018 in New York, United States. In coordinated marches across the country people are gathering outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field offices, U.S. attorney's offices, and the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Guest Post: The ominous expansion of government deportation power threatens us all 'I could...

Guest Posts State Sen. Julie Gonzales - July 23, 2019

If you had to prove that you’d lived in the United States for the past two years, could you do it? As I look through...

Guest Post: Who among us is proud to fly an American flag over a...

Guest Posts Boulder County Democratic Socialists of America - July 17, 2019

On Friday July 12th, a diverse group of leftist organizations and activists known as the Coalition to Close the Concentration Camps (CCCC) marched in...

Guest Post: Is it time to rebuild Columbine?

Guest Posts Aaron Harber - July 15, 2019

I was horrified by the events of April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School. I’ve followed the school’s progress and incredible community ever since...

Denver's City Park with view of downtown skyline (Photo by Kari via Flickr:Creative Commons)

Guest Post: To save Denver’s parks, we must change the system

Guest Posts Tom Morris - July 11, 2019

Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb has warned that losing the Park Hill Golf Course as open space would mean that “no park in Denver...

Over the past decade, 60% of all income gains have gone to the top 1%, roughly those making more than $500,000 a year. Income gains for everyone else has been less than 5%, or under 1% per year. (Image by Ted via Flickr:Creative Commons)

The US economy likely just entered its longest ever expansion – here’s who’s benefiting...

Guest Posts Steven Pressman - July 4, 2019

The U.S. economy likely surpassed an important milestone last month: Americans are now experiencing the longest economic expansion in the nation’s history, assuming the...

Street scene in Denver's Stapleton neighborhood. Residents have until July 31, 2019 to vote on whether to rename the neighborhood.

Guest Post: It’s time to change the name of Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood The neighborhood...

Guest Posts Liz Stalnaker - June 26, 2019

I live, work, and raise my family in Stapleton. And I strongly support renaming our community. My reasons for this are deeply personal: I am...

Guest Post: A DACA librarian is not a threat to America

Guest Posts Armando Peniche Rosales - May 31, 2019

I’ve always loved libraries. When my parents first brought me to Denver from southern Mexico when I was nine years old, the city’s libraries...

Illustration credit: Mark Castillo with graphic elements from www.vecteezy.com

Guest Post: Who fought for teacher pay during the 2019 session?

Guest Posts Sage Naumann - May 28, 2019

If you think back to April of 2018, you may remember a sea of red-shirt-clad teachers, armed with creative signage and megaphones, storming the...

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