Author: Dan Njegomir

Brief bio: Founder and CEO of Denver-based Novitas Communications, since 2008.  Novitas won this year’s national Gold Stevie Award as the communications or public relations campaign of the year, for its work with the Colorado Apartment Association. Earlier in her career served as a business coalitions and events manager for the U.S. House. Holds a bachelor’s…

No one needs to tell Nancy Lewis what the rise in partisanship at the State Capitol has done to policy making. As Colorado’s most prominent voice for crime victims, she’ll tell you the cause to which she has devoted much of her life has been engulfed in the acrimonious political climate under the Dome. “The…

Let the record show Peter Droege grew up in Central City well before the first legal casino opened its doors there — and fully a century after its original claim to fame as a wild and wooly mining camp in Colorado’s gold rush days. Perhaps it was dodging those bullets that enabled him to emerge into the conservative’s…

Jerry Sonnenberg could be the kind of grass-roots citizen-legislator hailed by our nation’s founders — raising crops on his family’s Logan County spread during the long days of summer; making laws at the State Capitol in the dead of winter. … And subbing in the classroom at local schools. He once worked at a funeral…

His LinkedIn bio says it all — and we might as well quote from it: “Labeled a ‘useful idiot’ by some and ‘a rising star’ by others, Sage Naumann is a Brighton-based political professional, graphic designer, amateur film photographer, web consultant, cigar aficionado, vaper, and video gamer. Raised in Carlsbad, California, Sage, his wife Sara,…

To listen to Heather Lamm passionately enunciate the virtues of educational choice; to hear her challenge the educational reform movement’s current detractors among her fellow Democrats — it’s easy to forget she was first Dick and Dottie’s daughter. She was the kid who grew up in the historic Denver mansion reserved for governors and their…