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CoPo’s BEST OF THE WEEK | No shortage of news in this Super week

By 03/06/2020 | updated 6 years ago

So did you get a chance to do some shopping this week? Because if your shopping trip was anything like mine, here’s what you saw:

Shelves for Clorox wipes were nearly bare at a Thornton King Soopers on March 4, 2020.
Linda Shapley, Colorado Politics

One thing that wasn’t in short supply: News. We had it by the bucketload:     

THAT TUESDAY *WAS* SUPER

Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer Drew Romano, 25, from Boulder erupts in cheers inside the Bernie Sanders Colorado Headquarters as Sanders is reported to have won the Colorado Democratic primary. Voters take to the polls and ballots are counted during the Super Tuesday primary on March 3, 2020 in Denver, Colorado. Colorado shares a Super Tuesday primary with 14 other states and territories.
Kathryn Scott, special to Colorado Politics

Colorado voters decided to go with an “as expected” narrative when it came to the state’s first primary in 20 years. That didn’t stop the Colorado Politics team from doing some smart reporting and commenting:

We followed up on Wednesday with some great takes from one of our columnists, Eric Sondermann: 

> Colorado didn’t get the Super Tuesday memo, but the message was clear 

And with that behind us, on to the party caucuses!

LIGHTNING ROD OF THE WEEK

Alayna Alvarez jumped in quick on the GOP’s anger with Denver City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca, who applauded a joke about the coronavirus on Twitter, and the aftermath that followed.

> Colorado GOP calls for Candi CdeBaca’s resignation over coronavirus tweet

DENVER, CO – FEBRUARY 3: Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca joins fellow members of the Denver City Council inside the council chambers for their weekly meeting in the Denver City and County building on February 3. (Photo By Kathryn Scott)
Kathryn Scott

> If you want to know more about CdeBaca, our cover story profile on her offers a well-written and a balanced look at a person who seems to enjoy her lightning rod label.

> As if that weren’t enough drama out of the city this week, Councilwoman Amanda Sawyer struck some sparks of her own with the transportation department.  

 

BEHIND THE SCENES

> It’s an old adage of journalism that what we can do best is take people to places they haven’t been. At Colorado Politics, we know we’re talking to insiders, so it’s more a case of making sure folks are in the know.

Which is what makes Marianne Goodland‘s piece on the new piano in the Senate, with video of Leroy Garcia tickling the ivories, so delightful. Items that give people a sense of the history and personality are what I live for.

Senate President Leroy Garcia, D-Pueblo, giving the Senate’s new piano a try-out. 

Marianne Goodland

In that same vein, here were some other pieces that gave folks an insider look at the goings on, at the Capitol and elsewhere: 

 
 
 
 

A LEGEND IN COLORADO

In this file photo, attorney Steve Farber, a towering figure in Colorado and nationally in the Democratic Party, talks about his years at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, the firm he co-founded with boyhood pal Norm Brownstein, in his office in downtown Denver. Farber died on March 4, 2020, at his Denver home.
(Ernest Luning/Colorado Politics)

Ernest Luning mined some notebooks for a touching obituary of Steve Farber, who passed away Wednesday. If there was a significant Denver development in the past three decades, chances are Farber and the law firm he started with Norm Brownstein had a hand in it.

> Steve Farber, powerhouse lawyer and Colorado political legend, dies at 76

His passing also gave us the opportunity to mine the archives of our predecessor, the Colorado Statesman, for Luning’s 2015 interview with Farber. 

That pretty much wraps up the week that was. Stay well, wash your hands and expect to be tired on Monday as Daylight Saving Time rocks our clocks. 

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