PROLOGUE 2019 Whenever I open one of the fabric-covered photo albums my mom saved, I find myself tracing the scalloped edges of each picture, captioned with the narrow cursive of my mom’s writing. 1957—Hoffman’s Farm, 1960—Queen Mary. Though I’ve looked through this album, and the others she kept, countless times, I am continually hoping that […]
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Republican candidate for Colorado House falsely claims Planned Parenthood sells body parts, FBI instigated U.S. Capitol riot
Pastor Scott Bottoms, who calls himself anti-establishment and part of the “far right,” is expected to cruise to victory Tuesday in the GOP-leaning House District 15
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Joe Biden has made Colorado’s Camp Hale a national monument. Could a future president unravel it?
National Monuments have been political footballs since the Antiquities Act came to be in 1906. But so far court cases haven’t changed the president’s authority to shrink or grow them.
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Silverman: Former Mayor Federico Peña still makes Denver proud
Election Day weather in Denver was extraordinarily snowy on May 17, 1983, apropos for the defeat of long-serving Mayor William McNichols, age 74. Mayor Bill had botched Denver’s 1982 Christmas Blizzard and finished third in the first round of Denver’s mayoral voting. The June run-off election pitted recent Denver DA Dale Tooley, 49, against former […]
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Opinion: We don’t talk to each other enough, and that may have set us on the path to the Capitol attack
Like you, like every reasonable American, I condemn the storming of our nation’s Capitol. That being said, if you’re expecting to walk away from this holding your head high in righteousness because you’re on the “right” side of things, I think you’ll be disappointed. I want to inspire reflection and not revulsion or superiority. I […]
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Littwin: Some of the best books I read during the madness that has been 2020
As I write this, I’m wearing a T-shirt that says the first rule of 2021 is don’t talk about 2020. But I have at least one good thing to say about 2020. Because the pandemic keeps me in my house almost exclusively, I’ve had a little more time on my hands than planned. Which meant […]
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Opinion: We haven’t learned our lesson about presidential power
Every four to eight years, we hear the shrieking of one side of the American political spectrum as they warn of egregious abuses of power from within the walls of the White House – actions that will further decay our democratic republic and dismantle our system of checks and balances. In 2016, Democrats predicted that […]
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Opinion: Trump is wrong. Fair housing is social justice, economic justice and welcome in the suburbs
President Trump is attempting to undermine the very fabric of our communities, including the diversity of our nation’s suburbs, by using unfounded, hurtful scare tactics. In comments he made in late July, first on Twitter and then at a Texas rally, he said, “It’s been hell for suburbia” and that “people living their Suburban Lifestyle […]
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Cory Gardner wants to get rid of Obamacare. But it’s not clear what he plans to replace it with.
Cory Gardner doesn’t like Obamacare. Ask the Republican senator from Colorado about how to improve health care and the first response you’re likely to hear is that President Barack Obama’s signature 2010 Affordable Care Act needs to be repealed. It’s “destroying this country,” he once said. Ask Gardner for his plans to replace the law, […]
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Littwin: Day Three of the Democratic National Convention
On the night when Kamala Harris made history — shattering multiple glass ceilings along the way — it was Barack Obama who made an urgent plea to save the democracy that had made Harris’ historic night possible. Obama wasn’t subtle about the person who had succeeded him in office. He laid out the stakes for […]