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The dangers of public art 0
- June 8, 2018
Okay. I’ll reluctantly admit it. I think Blucifer rocks. I love that creepy, devilish blue “Mustang” statue you drive by on the way to DIA. It is powerful and eerie. And, in full-on Steven King-like glory, this spawn of evil literally killed its own creator. Seriously. While building the monster, Luis Jiménez had the artery
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Colorado’s proposed pension reform is a missed opportunity 0
- April 24, 2018
In November of 2016, Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association Board (PERA) realized it had a problem. Not only did the state’s public pension system have a current unfunded liability of $50 billion, but overly-optimistic expected returns and overly-pessimistic mortality tables would leave the plan at less than 20 percent funded in a couple of decades
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The Republican grand betrayal that just keeps getting worse 0
- February 2, 2018
President Donald Trump and the Republican congress just gave us a large tax cut. But Colorado’s Republican-controlled state Senate had already taken it away. To comprehend how that’s possible, we need to understand the largest betrayal of Republican values in Colorado political history: the tax-hiking, debt-raising, TABOR-busting Senate Bill 267, sponsored by Republican state Sen.
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Hiking the minimum wage hurts low-wage workers 0
- December 2, 2017
Every time the minimum wage changes, workers will feel it—for better or worse.
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PERA’s problems demand meaningful reform 0
- October 23, 2017
Change is coming. The citizens of Colorado can choose to be its architects rather than its victims.
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Economic inequality is Public Enemy No. One 0
- September 15, 2017
by Jon Caldara A warning to my friends on the political right: Economic inequality is real. And the blowback from it could blindside us and cause a seismic leap to the left from which we may not return. Or let me try it another way. We’re all feeling it: a political tribalism rippling through the
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