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No Blue Sky in Colorado. A Colorado State Open Thread, 3/13/2023. [1]

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Date: 2023-03-13

Mount Evans looms over Denver's western horizon back in 2010. Taken from my backyard, with help from a zoom lens.

The Colorado State Open Thread covers a variety of issues that will hopefully help to bring our fair state of Colorado to the readers of Daily Kos. We welcome all who have an interest in our funky, but square(ish) state.

Sure, I like provocative titles to diaries. They can and do generate traffic. Some Kosacks are masters of them. Others have to think long and hard before we get a title that adequately describes the content of diaries. I liked this one — YMMV, however.

Leading off — In a story I learned of at OutThereColorado.com, the imminent name change of Mount Evans west of Denver has been put off due to a request of a tribal government for a “government-to-government consultation”.

Tribal Administrator William Walksalong told The Denver Gazette from his home in Lame Deer, Montana, that he notified the state board about the renaming Dec. 10 and that the Northern Cheyenne would never approve of the name Mount Blue Sky. … Walksalong dug in his heels Wednesday night notifying the federal board that the Northern Cheyenne supported changing Mount Evans to Mount Cheyenne Arapaho. He explained that The Northern Cheyenne are opposed to the name Mount Blue Sky because “Blue Sky is part of the Cheyenne Arrow Ceremony." “It’s a sacrilege to our Tribe to throw that phrase around in public,” Walksalong said.

Colorado’s Governor Evans was responsible for the Sand Creek Massacre, so that is why this name change is happening. Many other names within the state’s geography have already been changed from names upsetting or insensitive to Native Americans including schools, mascots, What will happen with this renaming is now even higher up in the air than the summit of that 14’er.

Outtherecolorado.com has a free newsletter that aggregates news from various sources around the state and it’s one of my favorite sources for news, trivia and items of interest.

There have certainly been a number of posts on Daily Kos about Colorado in the last week, including one on Lauren Boebert announcing she’s going to be a grandmother at the age of 36 (which the diarist didn’t care for, but more commenters criticized the diarist than Representative Boebert, To be forthcoming, through marriage, at least until that’s over with, I have a great grandson through the wife, and her daughter=in-law and grand-daughter-in-law, and I’m only 59. I won’t criticize Boebert, though I might if she were, say, becoming a grandmother at the age of 30. She did give birth in the cab of her pickup, for gosh sakes! Leave the busy woman alone!

Colorado’s legislature is working to make sure Colorado remains a haven for women to be able to keep receiving proper health care for women’s health, especially abortion, as the surrounding states (with the notable exception of New Mexico) seek to punish and prevent women from seeking health care for their own bodies. An AP story and diary is here.

Another post was about our illustrious Vice President Kamala Harris coming to Arvada to chair a conference on how the Biden (and Harris) administration is working to implement Congress’ two bills from last year that will help the environment and people’s lives. Former Colorado resident Meteor Blades was responsible for that diary.

Kosacks interested in the environment, especially in the west and southwest are invited to join the new group for the Drought-state Kosacks. The founding diary with an explanation of the goals and mission statement is here. Since I posted above about the outtherecolorado.com site, a site of interest to folks for the news of the west is www.hcn.org. Much is behind a paywall, but that’s pretty common these days. IMO, HCN has writing worth the funding.

For news on the Denver mayoral race, with 17 candidates and nobody running away with it, you can check out www.dailykos.com/… I openly invite a guest writer for the Open Thread next week if someone wants to discuss this election (or any others that might be happening) since it will be voting season. I used to live down there and I would be voting for Mike Johnston, but he’s the only one I’m familiar with. Please help us get edumacated.

Jenna Ellis, Trump lawyer and liar, but I repeat myself, admitted in court she lied in official statements. Diaries by Mark Sumner and Buddahboy detail her lies, er, misrepresentations. She has now been censored, so I’m sure she’ll never do it again.

Last, but not least, there will be fun and games all over my town of Estes Park this St. Patrick’s day weekend. Bands will be playing at venues all around the town. Coffin Races will be at the Events complex. There will be various dances and balls. There will be people in costume also all over the town, floating in and out of various stores and venues.

Friday thru Sunday.

We still have space for folks if anyone wants to come and visit. Lemme know in the comments. Until then, of course, the floor is yours...

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