COLORADO'S FRONTPAGE
Face the State
Time For Drug Sanity in Denver
FTS Opinion
January 1, 2009By Brian Vicente
Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey needs to face the facts. Marijuana isn't meth and it's time we stopped treated the two substances the same way.
A finance lesson for Ritter
FTS Opinion
December 30, 2008By Jessica Corry
Gov. Bill Ritter sure can talk the talk when it comes to fiscal restraint, but the question remains: Can he walk the walk?
CU's Benson Wrong on Tenure
FTS Opinion
December 16, 2008In Monday's Rocky Mountain News, University of Colorado President Bruce Benson defends tenure at his institution as a seven-year process that includes "great expectations for faculty members who want to keep it." We wish we could believe him.
Analyzing Tom Tancredo on Tom Tancredo
FTS Opinion
December 11, 2008By Thomas McDowell
Face the State published a very interesting column by Tom Tancredo explaining, without saying so, why he thinks his anti-immigration rhetoric didn’t hurt the Republican Party.
Time to think critically about early childhood education
FTS Opinion
December 8, 2008
By Krista Kafer
Commonsense tells you the world is flat. Science says otherwise, of course, but it was only after two centuries and a whole lot of scientists that the world's leaders were finally convinced. Truth is sometimes counterintuitive. We’d like to think we're more enlightened in 2008, but many of our leaders today are just as likely to dismiss scientific evidence as those six centuries ago.
Understanding the 67% hispanic vote for Obama
FTS Opinion
December 5, 2008
By Rep. Tom Tancredo
As part of conservatives' sober assessment of the 2008 election, we need to take a close look at the so-called "Hispanic vote." I offer the following observations, which are based on the latest available exit poll data and respected voter surveys. The real problem goes much deeper than John McCain's inept campaign.
Putting our current 'Economic Crisis' in perspective
FTS Opinion
November 26, 2008This Thanksgiving, no one has more reason to be grateful than us. Though the media, politicians, Hollywood and a growing number of cap-in-hand special interest groups would like you to believe otherwise, Americans enjoy an unrivaled degree of prosperity.
Merrifield re-appointment bad for kids
FTS Opinion
November 21, 2008By Krista Kafer
Writing from a special place in Hell where I rent a small office, I’d like to congratulate state Rep. Mike Merrifield on his reappointment to chair the House Education Committee.
A pocket full of newly minted change
FTS Opinion
November 14, 2008
By Krista Kafer
Nearly five decades after John F. Kennedy inspired Americans to ask what they could do for their country, the new national sentiment seems to be, “Ask what your country can do for you.”
How the West was won
FTS Opinion
November 6, 2008By Krista Kafer
At 6 a.m. I entered the precinct to open the polls. Sealed off from radio, television, Internet, and even my cell phone, I knew nothing of the races until I emerged 14 hours later, my judge duties fulfilled. Too exhausted to join friends at election night headquarters, I turned my car for home. Alone in my living room, I watched the results with bleak resignation and feared for the future of my country.
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1/6: A poorly-timed minimum wage increase
It's 2009 – do you know what that means? Another pay increase for Coloradans earning minimum wage.