Jared Polis

Increasing the Racial Achievement Gap in BVSD: District Cancels IB Program at Majority Hispanic Alicia Sanchez International Elementary School

May 10, 2019 Like Johnathen De La Vaca

Our focus is the advanced courses bill. At the same time that this law has just been signed at the state level, coupled with additional funding laws to support implementation, Boulder Valley School District has decided to cut the International…

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Unnecessary Heroes, Martyrs to America’s Gun Fetish | #DeLaVacasDesk

May 8, 2019 Like Johnathen De La Vaca

These lost lives, Americans of all ages lost just this past few weeks, burnt up and crumpled and offered up like grotesque cannabalistic - emphasis on ballistic - incense to America's gods of domestic warfare: the NRA, Congress, 2Aers, and…

Election

2019 Inaugural Address by Governor Jared Polis: Full Text [Jan. 8, 2019]

January 10, 2019 Like editor

My fellow Coloradans: It is with the greatest gratitude, pride, and optimism for our future that I speak to you for the first time as Colorado’s 43rd Governor. I am honored by this great responsibility and humbled by your trust.…

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Jared Polis makes another DEA agent look like a fool

June 21, 2012 Like Greg Campbell

Have we mentioned lately how much we love Rep. Jared Polis? If not, allow us to reiterate, using his recent grilling of Drug Enforcement Agency chief Michelle Leonhart as People’s Exhibit 1. Long frustrated at Washington’s hypocrisy regarding marijuana laws,…

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Jared Polis is a hoopy frood (and that’s a good thing)

January 25, 2012 Like Greg Campbell

Boulder Rep. Jared Polis was singled out last week by ColoradoPols for something that’s all too rare in politics—a refreshingly savvy voice in his online musings, from his Twitter feed to a recent “Ask me anything” appearance on Reddit, where…

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Polis Gets Protective

April 25, 2011 Like Hali Young

Earth Day’s 41st birthday comes with a gift from Colorado, not wrapped in a bow, but a preservation bill soon to be introduced by Rep. Jared Polis. The reintroduction of the Eagle and Summit counting Wilderness Preservation Act, which proposes…

Features

Best of the West: Readers’ Choice Entertainment (Places and People)

April 14, 2010 Like Lacy Boggs

Golf Course Indian Peak Golf Course, Lafayette Come and see why Golf Digest magazine gave this course 4.5 stars. Indian Peak includes 18 holes, six lakes and mass amounts of fun for the golf lover. Colorado Ski Resort Winter Park…

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Seven Campaign Promises from 2008

October 14, 2009 Like Andra Coberly

Jared Polis 1. While Rep. Jared Polis never really ran on a platform of gay-rights issues, he did vow to fight for gay marriage and anti-discrimination laws. In September, Polis co-sponsored legislation that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act,…

Locally Incorrect

September 10, 2009 Like Andra Coberly

[marketing] The City of Beers Some cities have billboards that greet visitors with a giant “welcome.” Some city entryways are more artistic, conceptual or abstract. Others are more like warnings: “Welcome to Paradise, Pop. 384. No Loitering.” But Longmont’s new…

Boiling Point

September 10, 2009 Like Andra Coberly

1} The Beet Goes On Six farmers who lease land from Boulder County Parks and Open Space asked for the county’s permission to raise Roundup Ready sugar beets, which are modified to resist an herbicide called Roundup. The farmers asserted…