jeanne faatz
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Plugging the settlement pipeline
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For at least the fourth year in a row, the City and County of Denver will hand out settlements that total more than $1 million in 2016. Between 2013 and so far this year, the City Council has approved close to $15 million in mostly taxpayer money to settle various lawsuits involving the city, according…
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BARTELS: Former Sen. Bill Armstrong: The guy who went from saying “no” to saying “maybe”
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As Congress was fighting the debt ceiling in 2013, Dick Wadhams, Colorado’s political historian, passed on a New York Times story he knew I would enjoy: a 1983 feature on U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong and his brand of conservatism. “In one sense the Senator is a missionary, preaching the gospel of fiscal rectitude to…
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BARTELS: Honoring “The Lady of the House”
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Lawmakers past and present showed up Tuesday to pay tribute to Lee Bahrych, the former chief clerk of the state House who loved the Capitol as much as she despised the pranks rowdy lawmakers were prone to pull. Former staffer Donna Acierno recalled how Bahrych once got so annoyed with Rep. Scott McInnis she…
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BARTELS: In memory of Lee Bahrych, former chief clerk of the state House
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Lee Bahrych, who served as chief clerk of the Colorado House of Representatives, retired from the state more than two decades ago but her legacy lives on today. It was her idea that when a former representative passed away, their families be invited into the House chamber when the memorial was read and adopted. When…
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BARTELS: Ghosts of Colorado caucuses past, from nuns to a naked boy
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As a political reporter for the Rocky Mountain News, I asked a variety of politicos — from then-City Auditor Dennis Gallagher to U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard to former First Lady Wilma Webb — about their precinct caucus experiences. With Colorado Republicans and Democrats holding their precinct caucuses tonight, here’s that 2008 story: Ah, there’s nothing like memories of…
