Dec 23, 2016
As the hangover from this week’s electoral college protests starts to wear off, various activists and lawmakers are calling for structural change in how we elect the president. Their efforts will fail as miserably as the ill-conceived “Hamilton...
Dec 23, 2016
As the new year approaches, lawmakers typically send out press releases listing their accomplishments. It’s usually a dry read, but U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is hip with the times, and instead of the boring recitation, one of her staffers created a colorful Facebook...
Dec 23, 2016
Call us skeptical, but we suspect some area newspapers might have fallen victim to a hoax, or fake news as we’re now supposed to call it, in the case of the offended, unnamed Mexican-American shopper at a Hobby Lobby in Longmont. According to newspaper reports, after...
Dec 22, 2016
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman’s campaign was included in National Journal’s bi-partisan list of this year’s top ten Congressional campaigns. Six Republicans, including high profile Senators Marco Rubio and Rob Portman were included in the list alongside...
Dec 22, 2016
Liberal U.S. Representative Ed Perlmutter is conducting a two question “End of Year Survey” about President-elect Trump, and let’s just say it’s a bit melodramatic. The first question asks how the respondent feels about the prospects of a...
Dec 22, 2016
UPDATE: Chalkbeat’s Nic Garcia rightly pointed out that another Congressional seat would mean another seat on the State Board of Education. Then, because Colorado cannot have an even number of members on the Board of Ed, an at-large seat would be added to the...
