Colorado used to be a pretty neat place. For years, you could have described it as South Wyoming. It was a state where miners and ranchers still held a lot of influence, where if you went up to places like Middle Park or the Uncompahgre, it wasn’t unusual to see authentic Western types with big hats and belt buckles – and big revolvers on their belts.
No longer. Colorado, a place which was my home for 30 years, is now East California. The Denver-Boulder Axis has taken over the state, and now the Denver area is paying the price with an explosion of homelessness – in fact, a 90 percent increase in the last five years.
Colorado has seen the fourth highest percentage increase in homelessness in the U.S. since 2020, according to a new report.
The report, by the free-enterprise Common Sense Institute, also called into question most of the state’s “housing…
