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Introducing Colorado Pickaxe
Continuing notes about Colorado.
by Ari Armstrong, Copyright © 2025
March 24, 2022; ported here May 25, 2025
May 24, 2025 Update: Originally this post was published to Substack. I subsequently integrated it into AriArmstrong.com.
If the motto, "Prying loose the truth about Colorado politics and culture," strikes you as pretentious, take it as an aspiration.
I'll aim to produce at least a weekly "roundup" with my commentary on recent news and views. I'll probably also publish stand-alone opinion pieces. Potentially I'll move toward publishing every week day; I'll see how things go. (I'm also writing a weekly column elsewhere, editing a book, and homeschooling a six-year-old, so I have a lot going on.) I plan to make all of my articles available for free. I do hope you'll consider a paid subscription anyway to help support my work, as it is enormously time-consuming. I'll set comments to paid subscribers only.
A bit about me: I first started writing about Colorado politics and culture in 1998 (before the term "blog" had been coined, as I like to point out, which maybe just makes me sound old). I've written regularly for a variety of publications, including Grand Junction's Free Press (now defunct), Boulder Weekly, the Colorado Sun, and (currently) Complete Colorado. I also run the Self in Society podcast and write occasional articles at AriArmstrong.com. I come at things from a free-market and individualist (classical liberal) perspective. I try hard not to tolerate (or fall into) dogmatism. I like to think I've grown wiser and more mature over the years and that my views have become more subtle.
Why Substack? I wanted a fresh start. And Substack makes the publishing, the email lists, and paid subscriptions easy. I hope you'll join me.