Special Reports
What is really going on around up.The resignation letter follows. Good evening, I am going to start out as is our…
By Vince Phillips For the foreseeable future, the First & D site in Salida is…
By Vince Phillips Salida’s city government is increasingly acting as both regulator and developer on…
This week’s High Country Advocate coverage opens at home before spanning two national fraud investigations…
By Vince Phillips In the first two parts of this series, I summarized the core…
State News
More state newsTwo days before Colorado’s June 30 primary, two political committees have spent $3.5 million to decide which candidates Republican and Democrat voters get to choose from. The donors funding both operations overlap in ways that should concern every Colorado voter…
Three congressional seats flipped to democratic socialists in New York City five days ago. By Thursday morning, Colorado’s own socialist candidates were pointing to the results as proof their moment had arrived. They have two days to find out if…
One day before Colorado’s June 30 primary, two political committees have spent $3.5 million to decide which candidates Republican and Democrat voters get to choose from. The donors funding both operations overlap in ways that should concern every Colorado voter…
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Sunday he will transmit the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to President Trump on Monday, starting a 10-day constitutional clock. The bill becomes law with or without Trump’s signature around July 11. Trump canceled…
Peter Bernegger filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on June 16 against Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and four of her senior officials, alleging they designed and ran a sham administrative hearing to dismiss his election integrity complaint —…
Colorado Law Lets Local Governments Build What Voters RejectedArchuleta County voters rejected a new jail twice — in 2017 and again in 2018 — and the county built it anyway in 2019 using a financing tool called a Certificate of…
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Mix and max about nothingColorado votes Tuesday, and the Old Man has a message for every unaffiliated voter:…
The Old Man I have voted in every election since Ronald Reagan, including while…
This is the first of a three part series when U.S. and Soviet soldiers…
We have all seen this or that regarding Bill Gates wanting to introduce ticks…
It’s a typical afternoon in Saint-Denis, the narrow streets packed with people whose faces…
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