Author: Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy
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Colorado Springs will challenge state law on accessory dwelling units
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The City Planning Department is drafting an accessory dwelling units (ADUs) law that works for the city and is best for the city and pays less attention to state requirements for ADUs enacted by the legislature earlier this year. According to City Planning Director Kevin Walker, the city planners had been working hard to make…
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Homeowners’ associations band together to halt accessory dwelling units | Cronin and Loevy
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There is a new political movement taking place in Colorado Springs and environs. Volunteer homeowners’ associations, previously content to wend their own way in city politics and serve only their own interests, are banding together to put broader political pressure on our City Council. A prime example is Westside Watch, an informal association of 20…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | ‘Out with Iowa; out with New Hampshire’
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Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy We are pleased that the national Democratic Party is discussing shaking up the first four states that vote in the U.S. presidential caucuses and primaries. Since 2008, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina have enjoyed having a presidential caucuses or primary day to themselves and being the first four…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | Our take on the ballot issues
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Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Registered voters in Colorado have received or will soon receive their mail-in ballot for the upcoming November 2 general election. As required by law, ballot issues in odd-year elections such as 2021 can only refer to taxation and similar fiscal matters. There are only three statewide issues on the ballot.…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | Colorado’s ‘wealth belt’ eludes many
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Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Colorado is among the dozen wealthier states, according to most census indicators such as median household income. But this masks the fact that our wealthy counties, about a dozen or so, are concentrated in Denver’s upscale suburbs and in Rocky Mountain resort communities, many on I-70 west of Denver. A…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | No lobby for competitive seats?
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Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy When it comes to redistricting Colorado’s state legislature and eight seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, we know the following: The Democrats have hired lobbyists, paid political professionals, to work to shape the redistricting to favor the Democratic Party. The Democratic lobbyists are being paid with “dark money,” contributed…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | Early returns on Biden presidency
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Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy President Joe Biden came to the White House with little or no public policy mandate. The election of 2020 was primarily a referendum on whether voters approved or disapproved of Donald Trump’s way of governing. Most of those who voted for Trump in 2016 voted for him again in 2020.…
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CRONIN & LOEVY | A GOP comeback in Colorado requires moderation
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The Republican Party has had a losing streak in Colorado for the past few decades. Democrats have held the governorship here for 38 of the last 46 years. The Democratic candidate for president has won Colorado’s electoral votes for the past three presidential elections. In 2018 the Republicans lost all four major statewide elected offices.…
