Warren Buffet once said, “Only when the tide goes out do you see who’s been swimming naked.” Today, our country’s inadequate economic policies lie bare. We can’t look away. The tide hasn’t been this far out in a very long time. We’re hitting pause on regular life to have a prayer that our health systems […]
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Opinion: Anything short of a rapid response to the coronavirus is criminal
Across the country, rents were due on April 1, but countless Americans — many of whom joined the record 10 million new unemployment claims — can’t pay. In Colorado alone, an informal survey of 300 residents by my Senate campaign found that 23% of respondents were unable to afford rent in April. By May, that […]
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Opinion: Russia and Saudi Arabia have exploited the global pandemic to attack U.S. energy producers. President Trump must stop it.
A crisis often brings out the best in people. Sadly, however, there are also bad actors who try to take advantage. That is certainly true of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, who have used the COVID-19 pandemic to wage economic war against other energy-producing countries – […]
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Silverman: How could America be so inept in the coronavirus times? It starts at the top
Hindsight is 20/20. For those of us hunkered down, right now is the perfect time to examine what’s gone wrong with our coronavirus response. There’s an election Nov. 3, 2020. At least there better be. As 2019 ended, we desperately needed some person of prominence, shouting like Paul Revere at the top of their lungs, […]
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Carman: Colorado, the “gold standard” in safe, accessible voting must lead the way for the nation
We interrupt this program of obsessive stress-baking and dog-walking for an important public service announcement. Only five states have all-mail voting systems, and there are only 211 days until the general election on Nov. 3. With indefinite stay-at-home orders across much of the country and experts forecasting a high probability of a second wave of […]
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Nicolais: As Holy Week begins, we are not lost or alone in the wilderness
The coming week promises to try my spirit. For the first time in more than a decade, I won’t spend several days during Holy Week walking into church services. In past years, I’ve written about my adoration for Maundy Thursday and the message of promise I drew after last year’s Holy Week pyre consumed Notre-Dame […]
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Opinion: Do what’s best for all Coloradans by protecting our immigrant community
In 2014, I sat across the kitchen table of a community leader in southwest Denver who sighed, “Angela, se requiere mucho coraje para vivir esta vida.” Angela, it requires a lot of righteous indignation to live this life. At the time I was working as a community organizer alongside parishioners from St. Cajetan’s Catholic Parish […]
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Opinion: Looking beyond COBRA for health coverage in the days of the coronavirus
The numbers are impossible to get your head around. Hundreds of thousands of American deaths to COVID-19 projected by the end of April. More than nine million new unemployment claims in two weeks. It’s probably not healthy, but when I read these figures, I go through a mental exercise to try to grasp the impact […]
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In Colorado prisons and jails, a piecemeal approach to the threat of coronavirus
There are nearly 20,000 adult prison inmates in Colorado (about one-fifth of whom are older than 60), and thousands more in county jails. Those involved at all levels of the criminal justice system are concerned that if COVID-19 finds its way inside a prison or jail, there will be little ability to stop its spread. […]
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The pandemic made me change my big plans, and reconsider where I called home
We drove east on I-90 out of Missoula passing through Hellgate Canyon, meandering alongside the Clark Fork River. I blinked away tears while whispering “I’m not ready to leave Montana.” Plans had changed. Vacation: canceled. Classes: canceled. The global pandemic turned into a national emergency; the weight of this new reality finally felt personal. After […]