Author: Tom Cronin

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Our imperfect presidential primary system has given us two imperfect national party nominees for president. Former President Donald Trump won 14 of 15 primaries on Super Tuesday and a handful more this week. Nikki Haley won Vermont and District of Columbia and then suspended her campaign. Biden won easily everywhere.…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Colorado in recent decades has been a population boom state. But a new study by the Colorado State Demography Office indicates this may be changing –  even as parts of El Paso County and greater Denver continue to grow rapidly. From 2010 to 2020 Colorado was adding nearly 75,000 new residents…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Many people and events marked this year just ending. The American economy was surprisingly strong with record employment and stock market achievements. But events in Ukraine and the Middle East have been major disappointments. Here’s what caught our attention: Entertainment and sports world Taylor Swift This American 34-year-old singer-songwriter has…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy This has been a tough two years for those Coloradans opposed to TABOR, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, which limits government taxing and spending in Colorado. But they have been good times for TABOR supporters. The story goes like this: TABOR was a state constitutional amendment adopted by state voters…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Proposition HH, which would have lowered property taxes statewide and spent TABOR tax refund money on public K-12 education, went down to a major defeat at the hands of Colorado voters several weeks ago. Supported by a Democratic Party governor and unanimously adopted by all the Democrats in the state…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy “Elon Musk” By Walter Isaacson ($35) “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of the New Tycoon” By Michael Lewis ($30) These are well-written, remarkably probing and instructive biographies of complicated and fascinating individuals who are much in the news. Each raises questions. On Musk: how did a much bullied, quirky,…

Tom Cronin and Bob Loevy Most of the states in the United States (about 75%) have a state legislature that has been gerrymandered to favor either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. Gerrymandering is the drawing of state legislative district lines in such a way that a political party elects more state legislators than…