Four voices filled the Opinion page this week — one writing from inside the committee rooms, three writing in from the mountains and valleys.
Jeany Rush, “Gangsta Gammy,” carried testimony to seven committees while the Colorado legislature kept shoving over 650 bills at the people. She voted NO on HB26-1410, the Long Bill, calling it “Rob Peter to Pay Paul”: fees hiding taxes, TABOR skirted, transportation and law enforcement cut while social programs grow. NO on HB26-1119, the split-rate mill levy — urban socialism while subsidized towers sit empty. NO on HB26-1283, the ID seizures bill — a backdoor attack on ICE. NO and NO CONFIDENCE on SB26-135, K-12 funding, for renaming TABOR theft “affordability tax credits.” NO on HB26-1335, abortion pills on college campuses. YES on SB26-015 to stop commercial sexual activity with a child. And she asked readers to pray for Tina Peters and support tinapeters.us.
Dr. X pushed back on our Saguache County measles coverage: the MMR has never faced a true placebo trial, and a February VAERS analysis found 26 times more post-MMR deaths than measles deaths between 1995 and 2025. Editor J James noted the shifting landscape at HHS, the state, and CDC.
A Concerned Citizen revisited our Money Mountain piece and concluded former Mayor Dan Shore was right: a 1989 state law bars Colorado counties from capping rent. HB23-1115, the 2023 repeal attempt, died with unwanted riders. The fix, the reader argued, is to kill the state preemption and let municipalities decide.
Vince Phillips wrote “Put On Your Own Oxygen Mask First,” a rebuke to a Catholic Charities immigration lecture. Denver alone has spent over $90 million on migrant shelters and hotels during crisis-level evictions, he noted. Sanctuary policies and state equity mandates are pricing Coloradans out of Colorado. Airline oxygen-mask rule: own citizens first.
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