Author: Joey Bunch
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Q&A with Frannie Matthews | Trends, connections signal opportunities in tech
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Frannie Matthews has had her head in the tech sector since Apple was just a snack and the hottest computer was named Commodore. Her 35 years in the game has taught the current president and CEO of the Colorado Technology Association that change can be as good as it is inevitable. Her job talent, she…
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INSIGHTS | Stimulus from Biden is Christmas in April for Colorado
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Government money can do a lot of good, especially when it’s in the pockets of Americans who spend it. That’s as basic to economics as widgets, supply, demand and the crushing certainty of too much debt. Lawmakers in Denver are frolicking about like kids writing their fiscal letters to Santa to spend money they don’t…
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COVER STORY: A NEED FOR WELL-BEING | Hard times yield good prospects for Colorado’s mental health care
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Colorado’s need for mental health care has never been greater, after a year of living under the dark clouds of COVID-19, economic disruption, social unrest, record wildfires and another mass shooting. Government money has never been easier to come by. Peanut butter, meet jelly. The problem for the General Assembly, with billions to divvy up,…
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Garcia introduces bill to create Front Range Rail District
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Senate President Leroy Garcia hailed the introduction of bipartisan legislation to create, manage and maintain a passenger rail line from the New Mexico to Wyoming border with stops up the Front Range. “Front Range rail has been a top priority of mine since coming to the legislature,” the Democrat from Pueblo said in a statement.…
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Common Sense Institute urges lawmakers to pay down debt first
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Colorado lawmakers have more than $71 billion in federal and state relief aid burning a hole through the state’s pocket, according to a new analysis of the windfall from the Common Sense Institute. The Denver-based economic think tank said the pandemic has delivered Colorado $67.2 billion in state and federal dollars, as lawmakers this week…
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BASEBALL INSIGHTS | All-Stars will come to Denver to bat down politics
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My mind tumbled back 21 years, then 50, when I heard the good news that Denver would host this year’s Major League Baseball game in July. Baseball is a time machine, even if the times we’re living in are worth forgetting. Denver’s good luck was Georgia’s bad, a product of the balls and strikes of…
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School discipline bill scuttled, as sponsors deal with criticism, threats
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The sponsors of school discipline accountability bill at the Colorado Capitol said Tuesday that the need is real, but the timing isn’t right, and they’ll scuttle the legislation for this year. Sen. Janet Bucker, D-Aurora, and Rep. Leslie Herod, D-Denver, issued a joint statement saying there’s not a “path forward” for Senate Bill 182 this…
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Colorado prisons chief to read story of a former inmate online Wednesday night
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State prisons chief Dean Williams will read the personal narrative of a former inmate Wednesday night online, as part of the JustUs project of the Motus Theater in Boulder. Williams, the executive director of Colorado’s Department of Corrections, will read the story of Daniel Guillory, who spent a decade behind bars in a story that…
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INSIGHTS | Weld County sheriff deploys political identity distraction
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The more interesting part of the dustup between Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams and state Rep. Leslie Herod is not what you see, conservative versus liberal, reckless use of a label and two public officials in a war of words and meanings. It’s what you don’t see. There’s a lot of history and context to…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado road plan sends followers in circles
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April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. The Colorado Department of Transportation made me aware of that fact in a press release on Tuesday. At the same time, I was thinking Colorado lawmakers also need to have their eyes on the road in the next few weeks. Amid everything that’s going on at the Capitol — a…
