john tomasic
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Lamborn ‘meet-up’ with Springs Republicans a preview of looming congressional conflicts
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COLORADO SPRINGS — “On the Iran negotiation, I’m an absolute no on that,” U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn a crowd of about 40 gathered at a Colorado Springs Republican meet-up last Thursday. His stand on the deal came as no surprise to the conservative group in the room. “The verification is toothless,” Lamborn said, lamenting that…
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Who saves us from having to go clear?
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Of Breaches and hacks “Bottom line, (government) can’t be trusted to safeguard our data,” tweeted Colorado Senate Republican Communications Director Sean Paige on Tuesday. But is noting the fact that the government can’t keep our data safe a bottom-line observation or a top-line observation? It’s one that begs a raft of questions, starting here: Who…
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Boulder, Xcel plow through utility ‘separation’
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BOULDER – Members of the state’s Public Utility Commission on Wednesday agreed to let five additional groups “intervene” in a case that involves this city negotiating to buy Xcel Energy’s local power-distribution equipment as part of a voter-backed effort to run a clean-energy-sourced municipal utility. Interveners in the PUC case can file to receive related…
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Pained wrestling with The Donald; a missed opportunity in the Animas catastrophe
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This column has been updated. See below. #Trumpness The Trump candidacy continues to fire up Republican primary voters and dominate political news coverage and the social web – and that’s a very strange sentence to write two months after he declared his candidacy and with one debate already aired for a record-breaking large audience.…
