Dec 5, 2016
Colorado Democrats were torn in more ways than one after Trump won the presidential race — distraught that the GOP will reclaim the White House, and gleeful that because our Republican delegation was split in the primary process, they thought Coloradans would be...
Dec 5, 2016
Trump is expected to name key cabinet nominations that we care about this week, namely Interior, Agriculture, Energy and Veterans Affairs. We’ve been following the Interior appointment because of its importance to the state and because Bob Beauprez is under...
Dec 2, 2016
When the next Colorado General Assembly comes to order in January, budget issues will take center stage. Chief among those issues is the convergence of Medicaid expansion, TABOR, and the hospital provider fee. And the stage was set for this showdown almost four years...
Dec 2, 2016
GOP Chairman Steve House is testing the political waters for a possible run at the governor’s mansion while keeping his options open to campaign instead for his current job in 2017. What he doesn’t want to do, is cause “chaos,” House said. “If I were to run for...
Dec 2, 2016
Environmentalists are grumbling that Trump hasn’t added enough members to his EPA transition effort, so he’s named to the team Colorado’s own Amy Oliver Cooke from the Independence Institute’s Energy Police Center, a free-market think tank where Cooke reigns as vice...
Dec 1, 2016
If a tree falls in a forest near Aspen, will anyone throw a hissy fit to have it removed? Only if it causes the right kind of environmental damage. If trees fall on the ground to rot and threatens to add fuel to a forest fire, then the tree stays because that’s just...
