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Opinion: Remembering the Business Plot, and the first time fascism came to America
Mussolini prior to his comeuppance. This Monday marked the 80th anniversary of Benito Mussolini’s last journey: from a village on the shores of Lake Como, where he had been held…
The O. Zone: Getting old(er) doesn’t mean bending knee to kings
The cast of “Hamilton” at the Victoria Palace Theater in London on April 22. LONDON – Last Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure of attending for the first time, with…
Opinion: DOGE of its day, TABOR traces its roots to Colorado’s MAGA movement
glas Bruce speaks about the Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights during a press conference in 1990 (Screenshot from C-SPAN). Douglas Bruce, author of the Colorado Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, on…
Opinion: Misaligned with Colorado voters, Hickenlooper a top primary target in 2026
Last week, as the U.S. Senate voted to approve President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Food and Drug Administration, Colorado’s junior senator “agonized” over what to do, he told…
The O. Zone: I love April powder … and protests. Get out there on both fronts!
The author busting through some branches on Seldom in Sundown Bowl at Vail on Friday. Anybody know what happened to the “Seldom” trail sign? Vail has been hit with more…
Opinion: Trump’s Energy Secretary Wright is a Denver ‘climate arsonist’
The Marshall Fire in Boulder in 2021 (first responder photo). An address earlier this month by Energy Secretary Chris Wright at a gathering of fossil fuel industry heavyweights offered a…
RealVail.com added to Signal chat about Trump plan to confiscate trophy homes in ski towns
RealVail.com over the weekend was added to a Signal messenger app text string between Trump cabinet secretaries discussing a housing plan aimed at high-end resort areas that will apparently be…
Opinion: Dems need to take time to keep Trump’s portrait out of Colorado Capitol
If you go to the Colorado Capitol, you’ll see an empty space on a wall where a portrait of President Donald Trump once hung. That space should remain empty. Why…
The O. Zone: Why write about policy when our democracy is circling the drain?
No, by all means, let’s keep doing this on the main highway through the Colorado mountains. Semi crash in Glenwood Canyon (photo courtesy of CDOT). With temperatures in the Eagle…
Opinion: Just two months in, Trump’s constitutional crisis has arrived
March 15, 2024 at approximately 11:10 PM. That’s when the United States entered a constitutional crisis which the separation of powers laid out by the nation’s founding fathers did not prevent…