Author: Tom Cronin Bob Loevy
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Home rule has protected Colorado cities for more than 125 years | Cronin & Loevy
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Colorado is currently gripped by a political struggle. It’s one between the governor and state legislature in Denver on one side and populous “home rule” city governments, mainly on the Front Range — such as Colorado Springs. The state legislature in the past few years has been passing bills that applied to city government policies,…
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Home rule has protected Colorado cities for over 125 years | Cronin and Loevy
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Colorado is currently gripped by a political struggle between the governor plus the legislature in Denver and populous home-rule city governments, mainly on the Front Range, such as Colorado Springs. In the past few years, the legislature has been passing bills that applied to city government policies, which for many years had been the sole province of mayors and city councils. These new state laws have mainly…
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Why the controversy with mail-in ballots? | Cronin & Loevy
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Most Coloradans enjoy the right to vote “by mail” at election time. Most Americans favor this process. But U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to federalize (nationalize) this practice and shift the supervision of voting from county clerks to the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Postal Service. He issued an executive order to…
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Bill in state legislature would put large apartment projects in single-family neighborhoods | Cronin & Loevy
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There is an old joke that goes something like this: “When the state legislature is in session, no person and their property are safe.” That is not a joke in the older, more traditional neighborhoods that surround the downtown regions of Colorado’s major cities. For the last two years, the annual sessions of the Colorado…
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Who has the power to declare war? | Cronin and Loevy
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Our constitutional framers boldly and ambitiously granted Congress the power to declare war yet granted the executive the responsibility, after war is declared, to supervise war as the commander-in-chief. That worked well until the Cold War began. The U.S. has been involved in dozens of wars, antiterrorist operations and other military interventions over the past 80…
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Thoughts on President Trump’s State of the Union address | Cronin & Loevy
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The U.S. Constitution’s Article Two states “He (the president) shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient….” On Jan. 8, 1790, our first president, George Washington, appeared in Federal Hall in New York…
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Additional thoughts on State of the Union address/rally | Cronin and Loevy
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The U.S. Constitution’s Article II states that “He (the president) shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient … “ On Jan. 8, 1790, our first president, George Washington, appeared at Federal Hall…
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What Gallup polls teach us about presidents | Cronin & Loevy
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The Gallup organization, founded by George Gallup, announced Feb. 11 they will no longer conduct their well-known polls that rate whether the Americans approve or disapprove the way presidents handle the job. Gallup began these polls in the late 1930s but did not conduct them during World War II. The Gallup staff has said no…
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Communities across Colorado voted on ballot issues | Cronin and Loevy
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By Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy The results of the November 2025 odd-year elections are well known. Democrats easily won the Virginia and New Jersey governor elections and, in a number of other state elections, bested the Republicans. In Colorado, the big 2025 election news was that a statewide program providing free breakfasts and lunches in public schools for all…
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Communities across Colorado voted on ballot issues | CRONIN & LOEVY
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The results of the November 2025 odd-year elections are well-known. Democrats easily won the Virginia and New Jersey governor elections and, in a number of other state elections, bested the Republicans. In Colorado, the big 2025 election news was a statewide program providing free breakfasts and lunches in public schools for all students, regardless of…