Author: Dan Njegomir
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Colorado’s small biz advocate issues its legislative report card…
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…and the 2017 session’s grade is: B- That’s the assessment of the National Federation of Independent Business in Colorado and its longtime state director, Tony Gagliardi. NFIB, which bills itself as the state’s largest and leading small-business association, is a pit bull in standing up for Colorado mom ‘n’ pops. It usually leans right but isn’t shy about challenging others in the…
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Colorado bill would make law enforcement account for what it takes
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One of the more controversial tools that law enforcement agencies have acquired in the era of the war on drugs — seizing cash and property they believe to be associated with a crime — will have to better account for itself under bipartisan legislation now on its way to Gov. John Hickenlooper for his signature. House…
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Trump graffiti: Should Denver bill the Democratic Party or the GOP?
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Just as you were beginning to fear politics was, once again, getting way too serious, along comes a creative smarty-pants like Denverite to put things back into perspective. To wit, it asks the right question: How much does it cost to remove all that Donald Trump graffiti from Denver’s public spaces and places? Denverite’s Megan Arellano comes…
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You want a look at those records, Councilman? That’ll be $500
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When even an elected city council member — a former city attorney, no less — has trouble laying his hands on public documents he has requested from his own staff, it raises questions: About whether the staffers are in compliance with state public records laws; about whether the city needs to tweak its own rules on the…
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Now, it’s GOP’s turn to get stiff-armed in a bid to legislate gas-line safety
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Having just turned back a Democratic attempt in the state House to make oil and gas producers map and disclose their underground gas lines statewide, Republicans on Tuesday watched as their own effort to tackle potential gas-line hazards was scuttled by Democrats in the same chamber. Both parties have scrambled to address questions involving the flow lines after a devastating explosion April 17…
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Frackers train sights on ‘fake news,’ try to get Google on board
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Conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics alerts us to a new foray by a Texas-based, gas-industry-backed group that seeks to take its fight against fracking’s foes to the Supreme Court of the Internet, aka Google. There’s probably grist here for both sides in Colorado’s perennial fracking debate in the wake of last month’s deadly explosion at home in Firestone.…
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Via ColoradoPols: GOP guv’s race heats up early with joust over death penalty
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A politician accusing another politician of being political is about as original as a DA brandishing his tough-on-crime street cred in a bid for higher office. Yet, put it all together this early in Colorado’s 2018 gubernatorial race, and you still have something noteworthy, maybe even newsworthy. At least, for political junkies. In a post this week on ColoradoPols,…
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What’s in it for Colorado’s Steel City? Pueblo’s Pulp asks Sen. Leroy Garcia
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For an alternative take on the General Assembly — one that’s as authentically Colorado as metro Denver’s, yet entirely different — look no further than Pueblo-based Pulp Newsmagazine’s debrief with Pueblo Democratic state Sen. Leroy Garcia. Garcia, who is assistant Democratic leader in the GOP-run upper chamber, sat recently with Pulp News Editor Kara Mason and reviewed legislative business…
