pat steadman
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Highlight reel: Colorado’s wild and woolly 2016 election season
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Symbolic of the divisiveness of our politics, many Coloradans will look back at the 2016 election with violent contempt, reflecting on a political year that saw the rise of President-elect Donald Trump, while others will reminisce with sublime glee over a cycle where voters bucked the political establishment. In a year full of tectonic shifts…
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From lobbying to campaigns, Fofi Mendez devoted to protecting vulnerable
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Twenty-five years later, lobbyist Fofi Mendez, the principle at Mendez Consulting, Inc., says the memory still sends a shiver down her spine. She had an established career in Colorado working in the anti-violence realm, directing victim’s services for the Rape Assistance and Awareness Program – now known as the Blue Bench – starting in the…
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#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups
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A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…
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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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Guv bites bullet, signs beer bill to end liquor-retail war
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday bit the bullet and signed a bill that will allow grocery stores in Colorado to sell full strength beer and wine for the first time since 1933, the year Prohibition was lifted and put a period mark on the era of blind tiger gin joints and bootleg empires. Hickenlooper didn’t…
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Former brewer Hickenlooper weighs grocery store beer, wine sales
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A co-founder of Colorado’s first brewpub, Gov. John Hickenlooper has a tough call to make in this year’s politically-charged alcohol debate. He must decide whether or not to give his executive approval to a bi-partisan bill passed by the legislature that proponents say would protect mom-and-pop liquor stores from having their businesses overrun by out-of-state grocery corporations.…
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In 2016, big splash bills went nowhere, quiet compromise ruled the day
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It came to seem like a routine signal this legislative session: If lawmakers held a press conference touting the introduction of an important bill, one they placed at the top of their priority list, that bill would very likely never make it to the governor’s desk. The result was a legislative session marked by a…
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Sherick: What does a new generation of #coleg progressives really look like?
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Every day when I’m knocking doors, and I talk with my neighbors about their priorities, the first question I ask them is — what do you want to see from the state legislature? We’ve talked with thousands of people since last June and there is a common thread that runs deep in our conversations. Folks…
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Sherick tops Court in hot SD 31 voting this weekend; three-candidate contest continues
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Colorado politics watchers looking for more clarity on the tight state Senate District 31 race after this weekend’s Democratic Party assemblies will just have to wait. Emergency room doctor Steve Sherick topped veteran lawmaker Rep. Lois Court in assemblies held in Denver and Arapahoe counties, but both candidates won enough votes to make it onto…
