The Soapbox

An animal activist from Montana faces charges for illegally lobbying Colorado’s Democrat lawmakers to pass a controversial wolf bill that would have negatively impacted livestock owners. Luckily for ranchers, House Bill 1375 failed to get past the Agriculture...

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen thinks the economy has recovered from Bidenomics, the pandemic, and other weak-kneed governing by Democrats in recent years. Her metrics for such a claim aren’t the return of reasonable food prices, because we still don’t need a cart to...

Democrats celebrated yet another end to all gun violence this week as Gov. Polis signed their so=called gun reform bills into law to spend more money to investigate gun crimes. Conservatives have always supported enforcing gun laws already on the books. If only we...

Western Slope residents want the Dolores River area protected and enjoyed as is, not exploited with a national monument declaration from an unpopular president desperate for reelection gimmicks. A recent poll revealed that 60% of those surveyed in Mesa, Montrose, and...

It’s not enough that members of Congress are paid $174,000 annually, now they get a food and housing allowance to actually show up for work in Washington, D.C. The extra cost-of-living money was a parting gift from when Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats controlled the...

An interesting clash of political cultures will be drawn to Aurora on Sunday to hear presidential spoiler Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talk about issues appealing to both the radical left and far right. The rally is set for The Hangar at Stanley Marketplace from 3 to 5 p.m.,...

The Colorado Republican Party is kind of a train wreck right now. It’s best to just look away. Send their emails to the junk folder and hit the social media snooze button until after the state’s primary elections next month and use your own judgement. It’s for the...

Thanks to poor governing by Jared Polis, gas prices within nine Front Range counties will spike fifty cents to a dollar per gallon in the next two weeks. As those Coloradans are forced to buy an EPA approved reformulated gasoline that’s more expensive to make, it...