Kelly Sloan

So here we are in the midst of a special session, called by Governor Polis for the express purpose of addressing the property tax crisis. As of this writing, that session is not quite over yet, with the Senators taking their turn in the ring. At risk of saying anything prematurely, a few observations to date:Presumably, anyone reading this will have at least a general awareness of how and why we got here. Since Colorado voters repealed the Gallagher Amendment in 2020 residential property assessments increased dramatically. How dramatically? Well, over the next two years those rates rose by anywhere from 20% in some rural counties, to an average of 50% in Douglas County, to as much as 100% in mountain resort towns. A couple short-term fixes were applied here and there in subsequent regular and special legislative sessions, and the voters were offered Proposition HH in 2022, an exercise in fiscal sleight-of-hand that they soundly rejected, but an acceptable permanent solution continued to elude.

Aurora has been getting a bad rap of late. I just returned from holiday in southern Florida with my girlfriend, who happens to live in a rather nice part of southern Aurora. We were attending a wedding, which naturally drew people from many parts of the country; whenever we were asked by anyone where we lived my girlfriend would respond accordingly, and the universal response was one of mild horror and a reference to occupation by Venezuelan gangs. We considered just telling people she was from North Parker.

To anyone thinking this presidential election is going to be about the economy, or immigration, or crime, the environment, health care, the size and role of the executive branch, or,

It's gratifying, is it not, to witness a bully's tactics being used against him? I'm referring to the lawsuit leveled against Greenpeace by the owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline, who had enough of the multi-million-dollar activist roadshow inciting violent and destructive protests in North Dakota. They've decided to hold Greenpeace to account legally.

In his brilliant book “Memoirs of a Superfluous Man”, the author Albert Jay Nock wrote of the literary and cultural application of Gresham’s Law — the economic theorem dealing with

Last Monday marked one year since the brutal invasion of Israel by Iran, via it’s animalistic proxy army Hamas, which burned, raped, tortured and murdered its way through peaceful southern

We are a few weeks away from that date when Americans exercise their democratic enzymes, and in Colorado they get to do that a little more than some other places,

A recent report from the Common Sense Institute lays out some pretty sobering facts about crime in Colorado. Among their findings:

Harold Daggett is not what you would call a reasonable man, by any reasonable measure. What’s more, the head of the International Longshoreman’s Association, and architect of the recent do

The Washington Post declined to endorse a candidate in this year’s presidential election for the first time since 1988, triggering an apoplectic wave of garment rending, wailing and gnashing of