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Colorado Politics, Statesman join forces
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June is the month of marriages, and we’d like to announce a big, fat, happy one in the political realm. Colorado Politics, a new digital publication launched last November, and the venerable, 118-year-old Colorado Statesman are joining forces. “We see it as a perfect match of speed and substance, immediacy and insight,” said Vince Bzdek,…
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A shortcut at the DMV? Now that’s what you call public service
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A couple of state lawmakers are touting a speedy end-run on renewing your vehicle registration under a pilot program they helped make possible in suburban Denver’s Arapahoe County. Sen. Ray Scott, R-Grand Junction, and Sen. Kevin Priola, R-Brighton, will give the press a progress report at a briefing this week on the implementation of their Senate Bill 138, passed in the…
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‘Compromise’ or ‘casserole’? Rural-sustainability bill does a lot; here’s an in-depth look
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As we mentioned in passing just a day ago when Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the wide-ranging Senate Bill 267 into law, “Sustainability of Rural Colorado” (the measure’s title) can mean a whole bunch of things. It’s all very complicated. In other words, Tuesday’s signing was about more than Hick and Senate President Kevin Grantham shooting hoops…
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Routt County’s Doug Monger stars in ad opposing Trump’s health care plan
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Routt County rancher and county commissioner Doug Monger likes to keep a low profile when he’s not making decisions at the historic county courthouse. But he said Tuesday he felt too strongly about the future of healthcare to pass up chance to step in front of a camera and speak out about the issue. “I’ll…
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Colorado’s high school graduation rates lag behind other states’, but new programs offer hope
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Colorado’s four-year graduation rate has been creeping upward in this decade and is nearing 80 percent, but a 2017 report released earlier this month pegs it as the seventh worst in the nation. “Graduation rates are definitely too low, and a lot of students who should graduate don’t because they lose sight,” said Natalia Taylor,…
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Hick inks big bill — with time to spare for a jump shot — at a rural Colorado school
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Technically speaking, the news out of tiny Fowler, east of Pueblo, today was that Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper stopped there to sign into law what was probably the 2017 session’s signature legislation, Senate Bill 267. That’s the hard-won, bipartisan effort that more or less aligned the planets to address the “sustainability of rural Colorado.” As a practical matter, that…
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Wheat Ridge council’s Monica Duran to seek Colorado state House seat
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More 2018 races are taking shape in metro Denver’s Jefferson County. Colorado Pols informs us Wheat Ridge City Council member Monica Duran will seek the state House District 24 seat being vacated by Wheat Ridge Democratic Rep. Jessie Danielson. Danielson recently announced she will run for the state Senate District 20 seat that Arvada Democratic Sen. Cheri Jahn will…
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In Colorado, where water = politics, Denverites pay little, use little
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… At least, compared with some other cities around the West. That’s according to the global water/resources news service Circle of Blue, brought to our attention by way of a report this week from High Country News in picturesque Paonia. As noted in the News’s report, a survey by Circle of Blue on water use was…
