I’m trying to imagine a Colorado bank approving a 30-year home mortgage for a 15-year-old. Or an agency authorizing an adoption of an infant by a 14-year-old. Or a 13-year-old hiring a divorce attorney. OK, those images are absurd. After all, you have to be 16 to get a driver’s license, 18 to vote. And […]
Diane Carman
Special to The Colorado Sun
Twitter: @dccarman
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Carman: Make Thanksgiving great again – no gloating allowed
Thanksgiving is no time to gloat. Sure, here in Colorado we just surfed the blue wave in a big way. Bazillions were spent on both sides, which should hardly be a point of pride, but ultimately the outcome was decisive. The predicted national blue wave dwindled to a wavelet as it rippled south to Texas, […]
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Carman: Sure the ballot is ridiculously long, but you’re lucky it’s so easy to vote in Colorado
It’s your country. It’s your future. Vote. Voting in Colorado is easy. With mail ballots, early voting opportunities, automatic and same-day voter registration, voting here is a snap. It’s so easy, in fact, you’re likely to take it for granted. Please don’t. Sure, the ballot is ridiculously long, and you’ve been brutalized by political ads […]
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Carman: A voters’ guide to the absurdities of Colorado politics in 2018
Your ballot should have arrived in the mail by now, so the pressure is on. You have important decisions to make, and time is running out. Given the storm surge of mailers, commercials, debates and news stories that has inundated you in recent weeks, you’re surely knee-deep in campaign muck and slime by now. I’m […]
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Carman: Colorado jurists worry about the future of the U.S. Supreme Court
In the past 50 years, ever since Jean Dubofsky has been a lawyer, Republicans have dominated the U.S. Supreme Court. Since 1969, Republican presidents have appointed 13 Supreme Court justices. Democrats have appointed four. But Dubofsky, who was the first woman named a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court in 1979 and famously led the […]
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Carman: “Code of silence” around Tailhook, Kavanaugh is keeping justice at bay
Let’s start with the facts. Walker Stapleton’s running mate, Lang Sias, had to have known what he was getting into when he flew his commanding officer to Las Vegas in a fighter jet to attend the Tailhook Symposium in 1991. Reports going back to at least 1985 had described the dubiously branded “symposium” as “a […]