A bill in the Colorado Senate could have big impacts in Fort Collins, where renters and legislators are searching for ways to stem increasing rent prices.

The two-week election race for president and vice president of Associated Students of Colorado State University began Monday as candidates handed out flyers, posted on social media and gave speeches to...

Affordable CSU, a group organized by members of ASCSU, brainstormed ways to galvanize student opinion against the Board of Governors' planned tuition increase. Their ideas ranged from in-class presentations and tabling on the Lory Student Center Plaza to coordinated student protests and on-campus labor strikes.

Big Government has become America's boogeyman. From Colorado State University's own Lory Student Center Plaza to the halls of Congress, many Republicans have been encompassing their political ethos in a three-word slogan attacking the institution they want to control: "Big Government Sucks." The belief is a cornerstone of American conservatism, and it has been for a long time, echoed clearly since the 1980s when former President Ronald Reagan proclaimed that "government is the problem."

A week ago, roughly 1,500 people gathered and marched to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The group of Colorado State University students, Fort Collins community members and Colorado activists symbolically marched on a route that acknowledged Black families that settled in Fort Collins in the early 1900s and culminated in a set of speeches at the Lory Student Center from local politicians and community leaders. Only 250 people stuck around for the speeches following the march.

First and foremost: Yes, Colorado State University has a Division I women's hockey team, and they're really good. The team is currently sitting at fourth in the standings with an 8-5-0 record to start the season. They've won multiple games with points in the double digits, including a 16-0 blowout against rival University of Wyoming. Even with all their success, the team was the subject of sexist harassment that underscores a problematic culture within the hockey community.

Soccer Mommy explores the emotional realities of fame in her new album "Sometimes, Forever."

This November's midterm elections definitively proved what many political analysts and armchair pundits have been saying for years: Colorado is now a blue state. For the last couple of decades, Colorado has been a fierce battleground state. It's flip-flopped from Democrats to Republicans a number of times over the last 30 years, with both parties running competitive campaigns that earned large swaths of the state's votes.

Secondhand clothing is experiencing a second life, for better or worse. Over the last few years, thrifting has become a hefty social phenomenon. TikTok influencers and climate activists alike have been highlighting the environmental benefits of shopping secondhand, and as a result, it's become trendy to see what you can score at your local thrift shop.

In 2018, when Jared Polis was first running to be Colorado's governor, he pitched himself as a progressive candidate set to disrupt the Coloradoan political establishment. While on the campaign trail, Polis held rallies in the Colorado State University Lory Student Center and across Colorado alongside congressmen Bernie Sanders and Joe Neguse, both of whom are among the most progressive national politicians in the country. The aim was to drum up support from Colorado's progressive voters, and it worked.

In his farewell address, George Washington warned against the creation of American political parties. He firmly believed that the establishment of political factions would divide the country and cripple the democratic republic he and the other founding fathers created. If you ask me, he was right. Partisanship is reaching historical highs. American political gridlock is nearing unprecedented levels. Long-standing nonpartisan institutions have been rapidly politicized. Roughly a fifth of the country is sympathetic to political violence. I mean hell, our political divisions have nearly half the country preparing for a potential second civil war.

Let's not beat around the bush: Former President Donald Trump has done irreversible damage to American democracy. The bulk of that damage comes from both the creation and consequences of his following, which has developed a religious-like cult of personality surrounding the former president unlike anything we've seen in American history. The sheer devotion and insanity of that cult culminated on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters unleashed themselves on the American Capitol to forcefully deny the proceedings of American democracy.