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Guest Post: Trump is trying to kill the legislation that saved my life
When I was healthy, I had the freedom to live anywhere in the country. And so I did. Today, my cancer diagnosis means my...
Guest Post: Coloradans cherish their public lands. Don’t let Trump’s ‘energy dominance’ plan...
Two years ago this week, the Department of the Interior rolled out a doctrine that may inflict extensive, long-lasting harm to wildlife on our...
Guest Post: David Bernhardt for interior secretary? Not so fast!
Many Coloradans are rallying around President Trump's nomination of Rifle native David Bernhardt to be the next secretary of interior. However, a closer look...
Guest Post: Why we must pass the Dream and Promise Act
For nearly two decades, working immigrant Coloradans who gained an opportunity to live and work in our communities under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS)...
Guest Post: Trump threatens national security by denying climate change Meanwhile, the US military...
Late last week, the White House took aim at a central and established tenet of national security: the threats posed by climate change. Our military and...
We shouldn’t celebrate the killing of a mountain lion The recent encounter between a...
I split my time between living outside Yosemite National Park and in Los Angeles. That I have the chance to see mountain lions in...
Guest Post: Colorado must better regulate the oil and gas industry Lawmakers need to...
Three years ago, I heard a large fracking project was coming to my neighborhood. I did some research and everything I found brought more...
Guest Post: Colorado Sens. Bennet and Gardner must reject Neomi Rao for the appellate...
As a South Asian woman and lawyer here in Denver, I support women of color enthusiastically. In fact, I ran in the Democratic Primary...
Guest Post: Prisons don’t work; let’s stop pretending otherwise 'The rate at which incarceration...
Colorado was in the news recently as commentators speculated where Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman would serve his sentence. Several outlets pointed to ADX, the...
Guest post: Expand access to driver’s licenses for Colorado’s undocumented immigrants
Colorado is home to many undocumented immigrants. These individuals do not have the same opportunity to access a driver’s license as others Coloradans do...