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Recently, Colorado Governor Jared Polis announced he was shifting his politically childish color-oriented COVID-dial from Orange to Yellow for most counties in the state. This was heralded as an easing of the governor’s overly arbitrary and strict edicts of economic destruction in which bars and restaurants were forced to remain 75 percent closed for months on end.

As COVID strains blood and organ donation, how do organizations support patients in need?

If there was ever a phrase that should be banned, forgotten and erased from the minds of everyone and anyone everywhere, it is the cursed, "flatten the curve." Such is the phrase used in March and April by governors and unelected government bureaucrats across the country as they rationalized the creation and enforcement of politically driven and authority-soaked arbitrary edicts of economic destruction and the relatedly questionable mask mandates.

Libertarianism tends to suffer from a mix of being misunderstood and mislabeled, even though some of the biggest moves for individual liberty in recent years were born within the party before being adopted by the big two.

You do not give a damn about the everyday folks in the state of Colorado! Your arrogance, narcissism and lack of empathy shine every time you decide to kill people’s livelihood in this state.

In nonprofit nitty gritty we are checking in with Springs nonprofit organizations in advance of Giving Tuesday and Colorado Gives Day.

In a year of financial and social strain, Colorado nonprofit organizations have been pushed to their limits—and the crisis is not over yet.

“One of the favorite medals for me is this medal, because from Queen Elizabeth’s time, it celebrates the victory over the Spanish armada,” says Money Museum curator Douglas Mudd, proudly surveying a large, stylized coin dated 1588.

With many apprehensive of public places, Coloradans are changing the way they work out.

“It’s a constant parade all day,” says Nic Ponsor, owner of Criterium Bicycles in Colorado Springs, describing the traffic on the Santa Fe Regional Trail by his shop.

“Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on ‘I am not too sure.’” H. L. Mencken

In mid-July, Colorado Governor Jared Polis imposed a mask mandate onto all businesses. The mandate forced businesses to require window shoppers and consumers to wear masks inside their private premises. This came after he claimed mask mandates were unenforceable, and that he also preferred to let local, smaller communities decide on mask mandates.