Author: JOEY BUNCH
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INSIGHTS | Democrats expose Achilles: a failure to engage
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Welcome to the post-election season, when those who won give themselves too much credit and those who lost look for something to blame. Republicans, especially here in Colorado, have been so depressed this year that any ray of sunshine warms their outlook. The clouds seemed to part on Nov. 2, but to what extent? That…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado dogs, doctors take centerstage for National Academy of Science
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When Ronald Reagan talked about a “shining city on a hill,” Bob Beauprez, the former congressman and Boulder County dairy farmer, thought of his Rocky Mountain home, not the lights on the Potomac River. Bob wasn’t wrong. The nation looks up to Colorado, and our world-class, publicly supported researchers are on the mountaintop. Consider: Colorado…
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Neguse improves, Hick leads, Boebert lags in "common ground" scorecard
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The Common Ground Committee nonprofit said Tuesday afternoon that Rep. Joe Neguse, the Democrat from Lafayette, is improving the tenor in the nation’s capitol by improving himself. Neguse had one of the most improved scores of any member of Congress since the last assessment of bipartisanship a year ago. His score rose from 16 out…
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INSIGHTS | Ten things to come in Colorado politics, so sayeth the scribe
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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert speaks to attendees at the Dec. 21, 2020, Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.Photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons I grew up in the Deep South, where time moves on, just slowly. When I was growing…
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Neguse sponsors gun bill, citing mass shooting in Boulder
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U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse introduced a bill aimed at gun violence Thursday afternoon in Washington, D.C., but his mind was on Boulder. The End Gun Violence Act takes into account the mass shooting March 22 at a King Soopers store in Boulder, the city in the heart of Neguse’s 2nd Congressional District. Boulder police officer…
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Poll of Colorado Latinos cites need for better wages, safer conditions
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Better pay and a safer workplace top the list of Latino concerns in a poll and report released Thursday. The findings were the second part of the Latino Policy Agenda, the first advisory of its kind to policymakers providing comprehensive input from Latino voters and community leaders. The aim is to conduct the poll and…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado’s off-year election was more than it seemed
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A casual observer of politics might see Tuesday’s statewide ballot as much ado about nothing, a zero-sum game. Those of us who spend our days and happy hours gossiping about politics, however, beg to differ. Today is no different than Monday in terms of taxes and laws. Voters rejected raising the sales levy on recreational…
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Polis presents 20th state department, focused on early childhood education
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Gov. Jared Polis and a cadre of supportive Democrats on Wednesday afternoon unveiled Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood, aimed at making education more readily available to young children and expanding opportunities for older ones. “We know that parents face difficulties at work due to the lack of childcare,” Polis said during an afternoon ceremony at…
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Colorado voters nix raising and lowering taxes, as well as limiting tax-spending power
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Colorado voters were quickly on their way to spiking three requests in early returns on Tuesday’s statewide ballot: a hike in marijuana taxes to pay for off-campus education, another to lower lower property tax rates and a largely Republican effort to give legislators more say in how the governor spends money. Proposition 119, which sought…
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Colorado community colleges pick legislators of the year
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State Sens. Rhonda Fields, Jeff Bridges and Cleave Simpson and Rep. Julie McCluskie are the Colorado Community College System’s legislators of the year. Fields is a Democrat from Aurora. Bridges is a Democrat from Greenwood Village. Simpson is a Republican who hails from Alamosa, and McCluskie is a Dillon Democrat. “I am so grateful to…
