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Q&A With Timothy O’Brien | Auditing, dentistry and Einstein’s theory of insanity
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Timothy O’Brien, who has served Denver Auditor since 2015, stands out from his predecessors because he is a certified accountant, a chartered financial analyst and a chartered global management accountant. He also served as the Colorado state auditor for nearly dozen years. That innate knowledge of accounting and experience come handy, he told Colorado Politics. …
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Tina Peters surrenders on felony warrant, vows to keep campaigning for secretary of state
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Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and her deputy, Belinda Knisley, turned themselves in to authorities Wednesday afternoon at the county sheriff’s department hours after prosecutors released a 13-count grand jury indictment alleging the pair took part in a “deceptive scheme” to breach secure voting equipment, officials said. Peters, a Republican candidate for Colorado secretary of…
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Colorado lawmakers hope for 2018 solution on broadband for rural communities
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The grand bargain of the 2018 Colorado General Assembly might just be in finally finding a way to pay for putting high-speed broadband service into rural communities across Colorado. That’s the hope, at least, for the sponsors of Senate Bill 2, brought to you by some of the same folks who carried last year’s grand…
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Kefalas on open records bill: An ‘interesting journey’
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Opening the hood of Colorado’s Open Records Act to change out even a few parts is a massive undertaking – too many of the components in this aging machine are moving. Aiming to make some long-overdue digital-era updates to CORA, state Sen. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, started that process months ago and has been wrestling…
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Stone: A data collector’s perspective on the pros & cons of open records
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Data is ever-growing. The current rate is exponential. In fact, 90 percent of the world’s existing data was created in the last two years alone. As recent as 1990, if you needed to know what year Colorado became a state, you’d probably have to open and read an encyclopedia to obtain the result. Today, a…
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Marble: The Senate Republicans’ ‘Hateful, Dissident Eight’
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According to a recent front-page story in The Denver Post, there are eight Republican state senators among the slim 18-17 Republican majority who have been obstructing the Republican Party leadership’s legislative agenda. We are told this presents a “threat” to the Republican Party and a crisis that had gone undetected until The Post crunched some…
