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Boebert pushing Trump lies about rigged election results
Editor’s note: CD3-elect Republican Lauren Boebert, who will represent the western two-thirds of Eagle County and most of the rest of Colorado’s Western Slope in January, isn’t even in Congress…
Please, Colorado, bounce Boebert, Gardner and Trump on Election Day
In 2016, you did not need to be the second coming of the French astrologer Nostradamus to accurately predict the presidency of Donald Trump would be an absolute disaster for…
Beaver Creek extreme: How the Eagle County GOP came to embrace the radical right
Time for the Republican Party to change its name to the Recall Party. Seems to be their entire strategy for gaining elected seats in Colorado: Fail to connect with voters…
Gardner green washing on GAOA? Many conservation groups don’t care, but call out dismal record
Is U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner engaged in an epic act of green washing or is his pushing through of the Great American Outdoors Act on Wednesday a signature environmental accomplishment…
With COVID-19 spreading and election looming, it’s worth asking again: ‘What the hell do we have to lose?’
Then presidential candidate Donald Trump in August of 2016 asked Black voters, “What the hell do you have to lose?” Four years later, they have their answer, and it’s basically…
Lauren Boebert: Second Amendment warrior or QAnon Karen?
Since her improbable and nationally noteworthy June 30 primary win over seemingly entrenched five-term Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, the nicknames have been piling up for Republican Rifle resident Lauren…
To test, or not to test, that is the question this Memorial Day weekend in Vail
Last week we got our antibody test results back from Colorado Mountain Medical, and – HIPAA be damned – I can reveal that no one in the Williams family is…
Health insurance debacle: Reinsurance, preexisting condition protection, public option all in danger
I’ve written extensively in the past about how absolutely unaffordable individual-market health insurance plans (the ones you must buy if you don’t get help through your employer) are in Eagle…
Winding down one of the strangest ski seasons ever in Vail, eyeing other forms of outdoor recreation
This would have been, should have been, closing weekend of a fairly decent 2019-20 ski season at Vail. Unfortunately, lift-served skiing has been done for more than a month since…
Before you click that donate button, time to think long and hard about newspaper business models
There’s been some grim news in the local news industry lately following the mid-March shutdown of Colorado’s economy in response to the growing COVID-19 outbreak. So allow me to lead…