Author: DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics
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Q&A with Hannah Collazo | ‘Creating vehicles of change’
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It’s only natural that Colorado is a crossroads for environmental advocacy organizations and causes of all kinds. They have varying styles, approaches and areas of focus, but all are inspired by our region’s natural wonders. Many groups have put down stakes here over the years to speak for the trees, land, water and most recently,…
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Q&A with Shawn Martini | Tilling the soil for Colorado agriculture
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Sure, there’s plenty to fret over in rural Colorado. Between the weather and the commodities markets, farmers and ranchers ride a rollercoaster that in some years can make Wall Street look like a walk in the park. Family farms and ranches are disappearing from the landscape at an alarming rate, mirroring a national trend. Ag’s…
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Q&A with Larry Liston | ‘Optimism sells; socialism will be a turnoff’
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State Rep. Larry Liston has developed a reputation in the Colorado House for speaking frankly while behaving genially. The latter attribute no doubt has helped file the edges off the former; as Colorado Politics contributor Kelly Sloan put it in his June 13 column, “No one can stay mad at Larry Liston for very long.”…
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Q&A with Lynn Granger | ‘We are part of the solution’
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Lynn Granger(Courtesy of the Colorado Petroleum Council) She’s the new face and voice of the Colorado Petroleum Council – a fresh recruit on the front line in the battle over oil and gas development – but Lynn Granger is hardly a newcomer to the war of words that drives every policy debate. She is in…
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Q&A with Dave Davia | ‘We need a balanced approach’ — on all issues
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Dave Davia is one of those players in Colorado politics who helps align the sun, moon and stars to make things happen – while leaving center stage to others. His motivation? “I am fiercely proud of our state and the things that make it such an incredible place to live…,” he tells us in today’s…
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Q&A with Danny Katz | CoPIRG’s point man aims to put ‘safety and sanity first’
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Remember the Lorax – the relentlessly reproachful Dr. Seuss character who spoke for the trees and stared down the truffula-trampling Once-ler? Danny Katz may not look or sound anything like him (Katz is quite pleasant, actually), but he walks much the same walk. After a decade at the helm of the Colorado Public Interest Research…
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Q&A with Tyler Sandberg | ‘We’re still a small-government state’
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Tyler Sandberg wasn’t among the GOP candidates and officeholders swept aside by the blue tide last fall – but the wave arguably hit him as hard. He was, after all, among those running their campaigns. In today’s Q&A, the veteran political consultant offers some blunt and telling insights about what happened, as well as some…
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Q&A with Kathleen Curry | An independent voice amid the partisan divide
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To look at the numbers, it would seem much of Colorado’s electorate has given up on the two-party system. The state’s unaffiliated voters are now more numerous than those in either major political party – by at least a quarter of a million – and pollsters and pundits predict their ranks will continue to swell…
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Q&A with George Brauchler | A DA and would-be AG talks pot, punishment and politics
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Although he was among the many Republican office seekers swept aside by the blue tide last November, George Brauchler at least had a pretty impressive job to go back to – as district attorney in Colorado’s 18th Judicial District. Brauchler lost the 2018 attorney general’s race to Democrat Phil Weiser, but Brauchler won’t have trouble…
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Q&A with Nick Gradisar | A new — and ‘strong’ — mayor for the Steel City
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Pueblo native son Nick Gradisar says his family’s history reads a lot like the history of the city itself: blue-collar; Democratic; proud of its immigrant heritage – and made of steel. “No other city can claim that they built the American West,” Gradisar says. “People immigrated from all over the world to make the steel…
