the colorado statesman
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A LOOK BACK | Dems attack ‘questionable political morality’ of attorney general
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Fifty Years Ago This Week: In what some Republicans saw at the time to be a partisan election stunt, the Colorado Democratic Party issued a scathing “key issue statement,” charging Republican Colorado Attorney General Duke Dunbar with mismanagement of state funds in the operation of his office. The statement, signed by the Democratic candidate challenging…
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A LOOK BACK | Colorado legislator repeals state’s anti-miscegenation law
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Sixty-Five Years Ago This Week: State Rep. Bob Allen, D-Denver, was sponsoring House Bill 57-1039 which would repeal Colorado’s anti-miscegenation law. The law stated, “All marriages between Negroes or mulattoes of either sex and white persons are declared to be absolutely void.” Fifteen years previously Colorado’s Supreme Court had ruled in Jackson v. Denver that…
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STATESMAN ARCHIVES | Farber demonstrates second-to-none mastery of politics
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Editor’s note: This story is a reprint of a profile of Steve Farber by reporter Ernest Luning that ran in The Colorado Statesman (the precursor to Colorado Politics) in December 2015. A television screen filled with images of protesters and vigils and presidential candidates competes for space on one of Denver attorney Steve Farber’s office…
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Smith: May The Colorado Statesman’s legacy of humanizing politics live on
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Congratulations and best wishes to Clarity Media, the new owner of The Colorado Statesman. I’ve been writing for The Statesman since at least the early 1980s when I was commissioner of the Colorado Department of Agriculture and have always seen the newspaper as a vital player in Colorado’s political life. I see its value even…
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Insights: Colorado Politics’ success depends on your view of our integrity
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I need to be straight with you about something. Are you sitting down? I can wait. I’m losing my hair. It’s the thing I’m the most insecure about, at least right now. Going bald is not the worst thing that ever happened to me, but it’s something I wish hipsters younger than me wouldn’t think about when…
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Minimum wage hike measure placed on ballot
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The minimum wage in Colorado could go up to $12 an hour in four years, if state voters approve a constitutional amendment placed on the general election ballot Thursday. Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced that the proposed ballot measure qualified for the Nov. 8 ballot. Backers of Initiative 101 submitted close to 200,000…
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Clash building over plan to de-Bruce education
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An education group, with the support so far of Front Range Democratic lawmakers, is planning to ask voters this November to allow the state to keep more tax money for public schools. It’s a proposal that anti-tax groups would vigorously oppose. Lisa Weil, executive director of Great Education Colorado, said her group is still in…
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Boom-time auto dealers will press lawmakers to streamline tax regime
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Tim Jackson, president and CEO of the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association, will be pushing lawmakers next year to simplify the patchwork tax regime in Colorado that he said places an enormous burden on businesses in the state. “Colorado has the most complicated structure,” he said Thursday at an event hosted by the free-enterprise and business-promotion…
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Bipartisan ‘odd couple’ pushes for greater access to public records
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Democratic lawmakers have teamed with the libertarian Independence Institute to craft 2016 legislation that would lower a major hurdle for Coloradans seeking access to public records. In an unusual pairing of players from opposite sides of the political spectrum, state Sen. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, and state Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, are working with liberty-politics…
