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President Donald Trump holds up the “One, Big Beautiful Bill” Act that was signed into law as during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Alex Brandon/Getty Images North America/TNS)

Yes, there are a few good parts of the One Big Beautiful Bill, but it’s a big bill (Letters)

July 30, 2025 at 8:11 a.m.

"It all makes me suspicious that the singularity of the legislation was a sleight of hand to help pass a clunker distasteful to the non-MAGA majority of us." -- Jim...

Apache religious symbols are posted at Oak Flat Campground, a sacred site for Native Americans located 70 miles east of Phoenix, on June 3, 2023, in Miami, Ariz. Oak Flat is a site for coming-of-age rituals for Apache women, healing sweat lodge ceremonies, and other big and small moments in the lives of Natives. (AP Photo/Ty O'Neil)

Arizona federal land swap for copper mine would further exploit Native Americans (Letters)

July 29, 2025 at 2:27 p.m.

"As members of the Catholic Church, the delegation of sisters stood with their Apache brothers and sisters in humble acknowledgment of the harm done historically by the Church to Indigenous...

The staff of KDNK celebrates the last day of its spring membership drive and the station's 42nd birthday on April 15, 2025, in Carbondale. Front row, Mugsy Seldeen; second row, from left, Luke Nestler, Lily Jones, Cody Lee; Back row, Marilyn Gleason holding a photo of Chris Hassig, Megan Passmore andTracy Strode. (Photo provided by KDNK)

Colorado’s rural radio stations, like KDNK, face challenge like never before from Trump’s cuts (Letters)

July 28, 2025 at 9:51 a.m.

"If you believe in a free and truthful press, a place for art and expression outside the confines of commercialism, a right to information and emergency alerts for residents of...

Katy Conway, metadata and cataloging librarian, helps organize newly arrived books at the Jefferson County Library's Library Service Center in Wheat Ridge on April 14, 2025. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

If Congress cuts library funding, here’s how it’ll harm Colorado’s rural communities (Letters)

July 23, 2025 at 4:45 a.m.

"These are not luxuries — they are lifelines, especially for rural and lower-income Coloradans."

Artist renderings released by Gov. Jared Polis' office on May 22, 2025, show plans for the Colorado 150 Pedestrian Walkway connecting the Capitol complex and Lincoln Veterans Memorial Park. (Courtesy of Studio Gang)

Colorado has a bridge it wants to sell you: Readers not buying it (Letters)

July 22, 2025 at 1:34 p.m.

"It won’t solve a problem but instead will likely create a few. It will cost a fortune, money that should be better spent elsewhere." -- Judy and Larry Trompeter, Denver

A protester holds up a sign of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Metropolitan Correction Center on July 8, 2019, in New York City where Epstein was charged with sex trafficking of minors. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

False hope of accountability from the Epstein battle (Letters)

July 21, 2025 at 2:16 p.m.

We should not delude ourselves, however, about whether these detractors will fall right back in line when it counts. They will, like they always do. They just approved his omnibus...

Beds are seen inside a migrant detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," located in Ochopee, Florida on July 1. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

Government leaders need to get off wrong side of history and gain new perspective (Letters)

July 17, 2025 at 5:01 a.m.

"Congress and other branches of government must be more informed by their awakened constituents than they fear the president." -- David L King, Erie

A granite monument, dedicated to the memory of those who died either while fighting in WWII or while incarcerated at Amache is placed in a memorial garden at The Amache National Historic Site on November 14, 2022 in Granada, Colorado. By Executive Order 9066, over 7,000 Japanese, most being American citizens, were forcibly imprisoned at the Granada Relocation Center in Granada, Colorado from 1942-45. The Granada site, with the smallest population of the ten relocation centers, became the tenth largest concentration of people in the state of Colorado; it is one the best preserved with intact foundations and little alteration by subsequent development. On March 18, 2022 President Biden signed into law “Amache National Historic Site Act, which will help preserve, protect, and interpret the site where civilians of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated during World War II.(Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Trump’s and Bergum’s fear of U.S. history makes them snowflakes (Letters)

July 16, 2025 at 5:01 a.m.

Too fragile to understand our history? Re: "Signs posted seen as threats to 'whitewash' dark side of history," June 28 news story

Campaigners both for and against the introduction of and end of life bill attempt to debate the issue during simultaneous demonstrations in Parliament Square on June 13 in London, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Assisted suicide was a blessing for my terminally ill brother (Letters)

July 12, 2025 at 7:01 a.m.

"He bravely decided to forego all treatment and take advantage of assisted suicide offered in California. This decision was not easily made between him and his wife of 43 years....

A rainbow appears in the sky over the University of Colorado Boulder on Monday, May 15, 2023. (Daily Camera file)

I’m troubled by the CU regents investigation of Wanda James (Letters)

July 11, 2025 at 5:01 a.m.

To those who voted for this censorship: I urge you to address the real challenges facing our $7.1B institution and the external threats to our education system with the same...

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