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Nicolais: Merry Kwanukah! The holiday season legal conundrum
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When Thanksgiving gives way to December, frantic shopping expeditions, decorative lights, relatives at airports, office parties and an extra 10 pounds due to gift baskets and cookies, the legal community often looks back fondly to the gift that never stops giving: debate over the place for religion in the public square. On one side is…
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Feldman: Is the state Independent Ethics Commission working the way Colorado voters intended?
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From its creation in 2006, inadequate resources and a lack of support from Colorado state government have hampered the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission. The largest issue affecting the IEC’s effectiveness, however, has been the commission itself, and its own rules, regulations and processes. This has been particularly true in three key areas: the prosecution of…
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Sloan: From Paris talks to ISIS and fracking bans, energy dominates politics
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It seems fitting, as most Coloradans shiver under the first major winter storm of the season, to talk energy policy. A lot has been going on along that front. The Paris climate talks have just wrapped up, and the best thing to say about them is that they accomplished precisely nothing despite exuberant self-congratulation among…
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Panel dismisses ethics complaint against Polis for gaming, fashion promotions
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The House Ethics Committee on Monday dismissed a complaint that U.S. Rep. Jared Polis last year used public resources to act as fleeting pitchman for a video game company and for a Boulder-based men’s clothing designer. “I’m glad the ethics committee promptly and unanimously dismissed this matter and found no violation,” Polis said in a…
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Peña announcement throws open floodgate to candidates
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Father John Beno, a former Democratic state senator from Pueblo, died at age 69 and was remembered as a bigger-than life curmudgeon with one of the best senses of humor ever to reside at the state Capitol. The priest headed up the Pueblo County Democratic…
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Liberty lovers at annual holiday party cheer founding principles, lament 2016 presidential politics
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The attendees at this year’s Leadership Program of the Rockies holiday party on Thursday at the Wellshire Event Center in Denver smiled and laughed and expounded readily on the philosophical and practical genius that launched the American republic. They also let out comic groans about the present state of national electoral politics generally and the…
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Religious, community leaders organize prayer vigil for Planned Parenthood shooting
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COLORADO SPRINGS — Several religious and faith-based organizations gathered Sunday at the Colorado Springs Christian School to pray for the victims, witnesses, first responders and Colorado Springs community in the shadow of the Nov. 27 Planned Parenthood shooting. “This was a time just to come together,” said Colorado Family Action policy director Sarah Zagorski. “This…
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Rand Paul makes main stage for GOP debate
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has qualified for the main stage for Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, media sponsor CNN announced Sunday. The low-polling contender had been in danger of dropping from the main event to the undercard debate but will join eight other GOP candidates at the primetime debate in Las Vegas. The Colorado Statesman is…
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Supreme Court to decide case of Mesa County school board candidate who ran from wrong district
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GRAND JUNCTION — Paul Pitton has been on that edge between a win and a loss many times in his 36 years of coaching football. But waiting for the Colorado Supreme Court to decide if he can hold on to the school board seat he won by a landslide in November is a tougher type…
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Salazar lights up Denver Young Democrats’ holiday crowd
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Ken Salazar, former secretary of the interior, former U.S. senator and former Colorado attorney general, on Tuesday night declined again to say whether he plans to run for governor. The featured speaker at the Denver Young Democrats’ holiday party only smiled and told The Colorado Statesman he was “focused on helping my friends get elected…
