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LETAC Hears Concerns from the Public

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Do We Really Need COVID-19 Capacity Limits for Restaurants and Bars?

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.
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Life-Giving Donations Pressured by COVID-19

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Skiing Postmen Risked Their Lives to Deliver Mail

Today, many take getting their mail for granted. With the technology available, mail and packages can easily make their way across the country.
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Prop 118 Provides Paid Family Medical Leave for All Employees

In November, Colorado voters passed Proposition 118, which provides up to 12 weeks of paid family medical leave for employees. The subject was brought to voters after state legislators failed to pass similar legislation six times.
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Before the proposition was passed, proponents for it raised 10 times more money than those campaigning to vote “no.” Much of the money to support the bill’s passage came from organizations that put money into progressive legislation across the country.
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What Could Have Been in a Libertarian Administration?

How would a Libertarian administration handle COVID-19? Without hysteria and, without being lackadaisical.
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There Is A Better Way to Handle COVID

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.
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Colorado’s Wedding Industry has Cold Feet

As weddings are cancelled, shrunk, or postponed, can the industry survive? Part 2 of the 2-part series researching the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and fears on Colorado’s wedding industry.
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Wolves Are Scheduled to Return to Colorado

The narrow passage of Proposition 114 on Nov. 3 will allow the reintroduction of wolves in Colorado. The ballot measure passed with 50.91% of voters saying “yes” and 49.09% voting “no.” Therefore, the measure was only given the green light by around 60,000 votes and most people voting “yes” live in urban areas, while those who live in the rural districts where the wolves would be introduced voted “no.”

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