The Soapbox

Democratic state lawmakers tweaked their state-mandated tax for family leave and the end result isn’t much better. Did we say tax? We meant fee. Democrats are calling the tax a fee in order to bypass TABOR, and a vote by Coloradans they know would fail. Here’s the...

Proponents of a recent Democratic proposal to hamstring the Taxpayer Bill of Rights or TABOR admitted that they couldn't guarantee that the funds raised from asking Colorado voters to sign over their refunds would go to transportation and education. It's really just a...

There exists some sort of karma weather machine that likes to dump snow on Democrats every time they cry global warming or climate change. In particular, the weather fairies liked to mess with former Vice President Al Gore, but also haunt Colorado Democrats. Now it...

When you give your child $20 to buy a bottle of water, and they refuse to return your change because they need it to prevent spending cuts to their iTunes collection and have other spending desires in mind for your money — that’s what the state legislature is trying...

Longtime Democratic presidential wannabe and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is coming to Colorado next week to hold a pow wow campaign organizing event. No word yet on whether she will try to identify with western voters by flaunting her Indian ancestry, which she claimed...

Fresh off his victory lap exposing the disastrous reality of public drug injection sites in Vancouver that led to the demise of a similar opium den proposal for Denver, Peter Boyles headed to Seattle to see how public camping for the homeless was working out for them....

Last month, Colorado experienced a rare winter phenomenon, the bomb cyclone, which left highways littered with abandoned cars and destruction in its wake. But it didn't stop Democratic leadership from plowing ahead at the state Capitol. After all, they had...