State and Local Issues

Last month’s A Line of Sight profiled Mark Hillman’s excellent article describing the Colorado Supreme Court’s latest “power grab”.

In an audacious power grab, the Colorado Supreme Court recently embraced, by a 4-3 decision, a judicial doctrine that would relegate the other two branches of government — and the voters — to a perfunctory role. The high court’s activist majority used Lobato vs.

Given that Stephanie Villafuerte has been nominated to be the next United States Attorney for Colorado, her handling of the Cory Voohis situation is unquestionably fair game for the confirmation process.  If she broke the same law she and the Ritter campaign accused Voorhis of breaking (accessing a federal criminal database to confirm the identity of a person Ritter had let plea bargain) for essentially the same political purpose, and was not candid with federal investigators, that raises a serious question about her fitness for an office that is responsible for enforcing federal law i

It's natural to sympathize with the parents of Brandon Patch, the 18-year-old baseball pitcher who died after he was hit by a batted ball in 2003.

Sooner or later, sympathy must yield to logic and reason, so when Brandon's parents sued the bat's manufacturer, Louisville Slugger, and a jury awarded them $850,000, they contributed to the terribly misguided notion that behind every tragedy lies a lawsuit.