former gov. bill owens
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Q&A with Sandra Hagen Solin | A Capitol insider talks transportation, #MeToo
Sandra Hagen Solin is among those lobbyists who are pretty much at the top of their game at the Capitol and beyond – having recently brought the 25-year-old firm she founded and owns, Capitol Solutions, under the umbrella of the national law firm Kutak Rock to head up and build its government-relations practice. “I have the…
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Q&A with Frank McNulty | Reliving the House GOP’s shining moment
Colorado Republicans enjoyed a bright, shining moment following the 2010 statewide election, winning control of the Colorado House of Representatives – the proverbial “peoples” chamber in the legislature – and handing the gavel to then-state Rep. Frank McNulty. Well shy of 40 years old at the time and known as a politically astute up-and-comer at…
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CIRULI: Will Colorado’s next guv keep water at the top of the agenda?
More than a decade ago, Colorado learned that it faces a projected shortfall of more than 400,000 acre-feet of water by 2040. The amount, if stored and if conservation techniques were implemented simultaneously, would supply water to 2 million people. But during the past 10 years, the state has continued to attract people – now,…
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Holland and Hart’s Anderson to chair state’s big biz group
Prominent and politically plugged-in Denver attorney Jon Anderson was elected 2017-18 chair today by the Board of Directors at the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry. Anderson, a partner at prestigious law firm Holland and Hart who once served as chief counsel to then-Gov. Bill Owens, long has been a go-to guy in state Republican…
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Big gun Bill Owens — the former guv — opens fire on Broomfield ballot issue
You know the war over Broomfield’s anti-fracking proposal – or any pending ballot issue, for that matter – is heating up when a former governor steps into the fray. Republican Bill Owens, who served as Colorado’s chief exec until 2007, took to the airwaves and digital media this week with a video denouncing Question 301…
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1990s Colorado GOP chief pleads not guilty to voter fraud, faces December trial
Onetime state GOP chair, conservative stalwart and talk-radio host Steve Curtis – charged in March with voter fraud and forgery in Weld County for allegedly casting his ex-wife’s mail-in ballot in last November’s election – will go to trial Dec. 4. The Greeley Tribune’s James Redmond reports Curtis pleaded not guilty in District Court in Greeley Wednesday to…
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How did we miss it? Former Colorado Lt. Gov. Jane Norton now aboard Trump train at HHS
We are supposed to be on top of these things. Alas. Here we are, just now reporting that Colorado’s third woman lieutenant governor – she was the first Republican woman to have held that office – went to Washington last month to become director of intergovernmental and external affairs for the U.S. Department of Health…