Tag: columns
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Pay raises for incompetence at the Colorado Capitol | Jon Caldara
By Jon Caldara I am personally responsible for helping overpay socialists to make Colorado unaffordable, overregulated and one windstorm away from a power blackout. I failed you. Colorado legislators already get automatic inflation raises. You know, just like your job (I’m assuming the sarcasm bled through that one). No private-sector worker has that kind of…
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The Constitution’s ‘Founding Son’ and his allies | Tom Cronin
Constitutional scholar and Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar is on a professional crusade to encourage Americans to understand the U.S. Constitution. He is writing a three-volume narrative explanation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as amended. Publisher Basic Books recently published volume 2 in this series titled “Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution,…
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Colorado’s ski bums on strike vs. ‘Big Ski’ | CALDARA
Hopefully, by the time you read this, the strike up at Telluride Ski Resort is over, ski patrollers are again joyfully sliding down mountains and getting paid for it, and tourists are once again being overcharged for… well, everything. But there are some lessons buried in this story of ski bums going all Norma Rae…
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COLUMN: The best Christmas gifts aren’t under the tree
One of the most memorable and meaningful Christmas Eve’s for me was the year I was abandoned at the public library. It was Monday, December 24, 1979. I was seven. The Baldwin Public Library is in the middle of my small hometown on the south shore of Long Island. One sign of a good town…
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Gun control won’t stop school shootings | Mike Rosen
How many times have you heard this anguished and furious cry: “We must ensure that something like this will never happen again!” The “something like this” would apply to horrific events like the 9/11 attack on America by Islamist terrorists, the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Navy fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1941, and…
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Pikes Pub: Lost in Colorado’s dense craft outback? This guide should help. Plus, free beer
When Colorado Springs mapmaker and former photojournalist Mike Laur and his team published their first travel-friendly distillation of the Centennial State’s craft scene in 2008, it was a slightly less challenging undertaking than it is today. That first “Drinker’s Guide to Colorado” featured around 100 destinations, which seemed pretty comprehensive at the time. “Ten years,…
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Black Forest marks Oktoberfest in eponymous, German style | Pikes Pub
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The city’s northeastern Black Forest neighborhood shares more than title with its iconic German namesake. For one, “there’s the physical aspect of it,” said Donovan Routsis, whose brewery, Black Forest Brewing Co., opened this year in a shopping plaza at Burgess and Black Forest roads.…
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Black Forest marks Oktoberfest in eponymous, German style | Pikes Pub
The city’s northeastern Black Forest neighborhood shares more than title with its iconic German namesake. For one, “there’s the physical aspect of it,” said Donovan Routsis, whose brewery, Black Forest Brewing Co., opened this year in a shopping plaza at Burgess and Black Forest roads. “We live at a higher elevation, with lots of trees.”…
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Former ‘tiniest’ brewery in Colorado Springs is moving | Pikes Pub
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Those rumors you’ve been hearing about big changes coming at Smiling Toad Brewing Co.? True. Owner Biff Morehead confirmed last week that the former “tiniest” brewery in Colorado Springs is poised to leap to an even roomier lily pad, off South 21st St. in Old…
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Former ‘tiniest’ brewery in Colorado Springs is moving | Pikes Pub
Those rumors you’ve been hearing about big changes coming at Smiling Toad Brewing Co.? True. Owner Biff Morehead confirmed last week that the former “tiniest” brewery in Colorado Springs is poised to leap to an even roomier lily pad, off South 21st St. in Old Colorado City. Demolition already has begun at the new location…