jason hopfer
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Roasts, get yer roasts, here: Capitol M | Week of March 14, 2026
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The lighter side of the Capitol, especially in the past week Apparently, the pending and eventual switch to daylight stupid time has put people in some pretty funny moods. And thank goodness! On March 4, the Senate approved the appointments of three trustees to the Colorado School of Mines. Two of the appointees were on…
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Wheat Ridge demands return of records detailing billionaire’s stake in liquor giant Applejack
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Saying the city released records it shouldn’t have, an attorney representing the city of Wheat Ridge is demanding the immediate return of dozens of pages of documents concerning a 2014 liquor license application for a new owner of Applejack Wine and Spirits obtained in March under the Colorado Open Records Act, The Colorado Statesman has…
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Late liquor license bill pits smaller stores against some local retail giants
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Legislation introduced Tuesday to permit independent liquor stores to amass more than twice as many licenses as last year’s landmark compromise allows has groups representing smaller merchants warning the move will devastate Colorado’s mom-and-pop retail landscape, but the bill’s sponsors and supporters say it’s simply an attempt to level the playing field. House Bill 1370,…
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Did a misinformation campaign kill this year’s liquor licensing cleanup compromise?
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A legislative effort to clean up last year’s hard-fought and widely bipartisan liquor licensing reform compromise died a surprise and dramatic death in the state Senate Monday. According to proponents, Senate Bill 143‘s demise by a narrow 18-17 vote was almost entirely due to misleading information, flat-out lies and a convolution of the process by a…
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Rival groups of liquor retailers kick up dust in legislative fight over spirit licenses
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The battle over Colorado’s liquor store landscape intensified Monday in the wake of a Senate vote that killed a bill to let Wal-Mart sell full-strength liquor in as many as 20 locations over the next two decades, among other tweaks to 2016 legislation that overhauled the state’s liquor licensing laws. And amid renewed threats of…
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The Hot Sheet, March 3, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright_@JaredWright_ Thursday, March 3, 2016 DENVER – Happy Thursday, the day when Mitt Romney ups the rhetoric against Donald Trump, and Fox News flips off a switch in hopes Marco Rubio will begin to feel the pain (or at least an absent, cold shouldered feeling). “If you believe that your…