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The Founders wrote sound money into the Constitution. We have spent fifty years unwinding it.
A dollar tied to gold and silver was written into the Constitution after the Continental dollar collapsed. Historian Lawrence W....
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Arizona adopts the new federal tax cuts in full while Colorado adds them back
Arizona just conformed its income tax to the federal One Big Beautiful Bill, passing the no-tax-on-tips and no-tax-on-overtime breaks through...
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A Kansas advocate warns the heartland’s energy buildout is a land grab
Virginia Macha of Stand 4 the Land Kansas says industrial solar, wind, and high-voltage transmission projects, backed by federal tax...
Tenth Circuit weighs whether Colorado’s rental car fee is an illegal airport tax
The American Car Rental Association is asking the federal appeals court to revive its challenge to Colorado's congestion impact fee...
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Why one energy advocate wants conservatives to welcome data centers as paying customers
Daniel Turner of Power the Future argues the rush of AI data centers is a buyer for American coal, gas...
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88 Drive-In owner says property taxes quadrupled to $60,000 since Gallagher
Susan Kochevar says the tax bill on her family's Commerce City drive-in climbed from about $13,900 to $60,000 in four...
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Iran war’s oil shock reaches metro Denver kitchen tables and closing tables
As the closure of the Strait of Hormuz drives crude, gas and Treasury yields higher, the resulting inflation runs straight...
Kansas regulators reject Buffalo Flats route through Flint Hills, send Evergy back for new study
The Kansas Corporation Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to deny the eastern portion of Evergy's 345-kilovolt transmission line while granting eminent-domain...
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Supreme Court restores families’ right to choose counseling Colorado deemed unacceptable
In an 8-1 ruling, the justices found that Colorado's conversion therapy ban censors speech based on viewpoint, marking the state's...
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Welfare ideology is destroying the American middle class by design
Yvonne Paez argues that unbridled welfare programs have replaced self-reliance with government dependency, deliberately eroding the uniquely large American middle...
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Per-mile driving taxes are spreading faster than most Americans realize
At least 24 states have piloted or enacted vehicle miles traveled taxes, with Colorado already layering new fees on top...
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Credit card rate cap could cut off 80 percent of cardholders
Free market advocate Phil Kerpen warns that a 10% interest rate ceiling would eliminate credit access for up to 190...
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Southwest Power Pool seizes Kansas farmland for transmission lines that serve California, not the Midwest
The regional grid operator is using eminent domain to build billions of dollars in high-voltage lines across Midwestern farms while...
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Seven weeks from massacre to missiles: how Iran’s regime sealed its own fate
The Islamic Republic massacred 7,000 of its own people, then lost its Supreme Leader to the strikes that followed. Seventy...
Mortgage rates drop below 6% for first time in three and a half years
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Colorado’s Clean Heat Plan could cost homeowners $20,000 or more to ditch natural gas
State regulators approved aggressive emission targets that critics say will force costly electrification on two-thirds of Colorado households.
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