Author: Dan Njegomir

Straight outta #copolitics: Sit-in at the senator’s comes to an end

Jun 30, 2017

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Dan Njegomir
Straight outta #copolitics: Left, right see it the same way on forfeiture reform

Jun 9, 2017

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Dan Njegomir
Group picks up where legislature left off on training school staff for gun use

May 15, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

Remember the GOP bill in the legislature that would have provided gun training to designated staffers with concealed-weapons permits on Colorado’s K-12 campuses? The one that was approved by the Republican-controlled state Senate but, as anticipated, never made it past a “kill committee” in the Democratic-dominated House? Well, Coloradans for Civil Liberties isn’t about to let it drop. In a…
Coalition tracks Colorado lawmakers’ path toward more open government

May 15, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

Legislation affecting public records and our access to them typically gets eclipsed by the bigger-ticket bills involving transportation, schools and the like. Understandable; the debate over government transparency is seldom sexy. Yet, it’s not just us newsfolk who benefit from efforts to open up government, and it’s not just us who lose out when government slams the door on…
Another vote for free trade — from the Colorado Farm Bureau

May 12, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

One of the state’s most prominent voices for agriculture weighed in today on the side of Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner — and free trade — following his vote Thursday in the U.S. Senate against Robert Lighthizer as the Trump administration’s U.S. trade representative. The Colorado Farm Bureau, reached for comment, provided this statement from President Don Shawcroft:…
And now, for a 2017 legislative wrap-up from the Colorado right …

May 12, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

… we turn to conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics, which happily plays skunk at the picnic with its “Gold Dome duds: Who came out worse for the wear this legislative session?“ Peak pulls no punches in pulling for the political right, and not surprisingly, its take on who/what came out of the 2017 session as…
Colorado’s Ken Buck on KOA compares Trump and Russia to birth certificate and Obama

May 12, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

Left-of-center media watchdog and political critic at large Jason Salzman blogs about 4th Congressional District Republican Rep. Ken Buck’s interview Thursday on KOA-AM radio in which the congressman talks about the firing of FBI chief James Comey. At one point in the on-air exchange, as Salzman notes, KOA’s April Zesbaugh asked Buck if “we will get to the bottom…
Colorado candidates could get a chance to fix campaign-finance oversights …

May 12, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

… before getting slapped with stiff fines over innocent clerical errors in the periodic disclosures they must file with the state. That’s provided the governor OKs House Bill 1155 following its adoption earlier this week by the legislature. Perhaps of even greater consequence, the legislation will make it less likely that Colorado’s strict campaign-finance rules will be gamed as they now are by…
ICYMI: a checklist of legislative highlights by Colorado Capitol Watch

May 12, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

For your convenience, bill-tracker Colorado Capitol Watch offered a quick-take recap earlier this week of the top issues the legislature had to grapple with, and how it resolved them. Or didn’t, as the case may be. The review by veteran Capitol correspondent and sage Todd Engdahl covers all the basics — hospital provider fee, energy policy,…
Colorado’s Cory Gardner is one of three in GOP to vote ‘no’ on Trump’s trade rep

May 11, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

When the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly today to approve President Trump’s nominee to be the next U.S. trade representative — with majorities of both parties, for a change, backing the president’s pick — Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner wasn’t among them. Gardner was one of only three Republicans to vote no. His reason for stiff-arming his…