Nothing has changed; keep your voting plans. Colorado county clerks are hard at work preparing to mail your ballot, just as every county clerk has reliably and responsibly done for more than a decade.

“Proposition 137 would siphon $175 million in taxpayer dollars every year to degrade and destroy Colorado’s landscape by bankrolling industrial logging of tens of thousands of acres annually.” — Josh Schlossberg

Three of the 12 fraudulent ballots passed signature verification and were counted before the two Mesa County residents, who said they were trying to prove election fraud was real, got caught. The paucity of cases is a testament to our voting system in Colorado with its many checks and balances.

Denver voters can send two clear messages to elected officials this November: first, now is not the time to raise property taxes further; and second, we want a school board that is drama-free and focuses exclusively on students, teachers and schools.

Exactly how incompetent does a state agency have to be to not discover deception and fraud in at least 1,045 cases over a 29-year period?

“I’ll never forget seeing the first responders on the roadways on either side of the bridge, racing towards chaos that we had just escaped from.”

While for most people the memory of 9/11 is fading, for me it never does. In my head, I can recreate that day, and my experiences, on an almost minute-by-minute basis. No aspect of that day has been forgotten, and it never will. It is as if it has been imprinted on my DNA.

“Frivolous lawsuits, fraudulent accident claims, and excessive settlements add costs throughout the insurance system.”

Though I loved being on the river, I often felt isolated, thinking I had to work harder than anyone else to be taken seriously. I believed that in part because I didn’t know the stories of women who had come before me.