INSIGHTS | The best of Joey Bunch

By Colorado Politics August 26, 2019 | updated 7 years ago

Joey Bunch
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Here’s a look back at deputy managing editor/senior reporter Joey Bunch’s weekly Insights columns for Colorado Politics from recent months.

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INSIGHTS | Denver’s on a fast track to the left; will Colorado follow?

Joey Bunch: “Let’s see if the Denver experiment in Democratic socialism pays political dividends.”

INSIGHTS | Potholes line the campaign trail for a Hickenlooper-Gardner matchup

Hick and Cory are like the most popular kids in their cliques. It seems inevitable they’ll slug it out.

INSIGHTS | Politics and multiculturalism join hands in metro Denver

On a blazing hot August afternoon — on the same day that people died in El Paso, allegedly for the color of their skin — Colorado politicians were prominently celebrating immigrants at a park in northeast Denver.

INSIGHTS | Denver diner is at a property-rights crossroads

As Denver grapples will gentrification, the city is deciding how to slow the march of time, and who ultimately pays the cost.

INSIGHTS | Another presidential debate, another Coloradan fights on

For the second night in a row, America got a feel for the best Colorado Democratic politics has to offer: a mild moderate with ideas big enough to make a difference and real enough to happen.

INSIGHTS | First-night presidential debate showed cracks in the Democratic front

The first night of the Democratic presidential debate was more about pulling apart from the field than pulling a fractured party together.

INSIGHTS | Colorado women have waited long enough for a US Senate seat

For women to lead, enough voters have to follow.

INSIGHTS | Ben Carson, a local conservative favorite, knows Denver’s struggles

Ben Carson was relaxed, even chatty, the morning before he addressed the 2019 Western Conservative Summit in Denver.

INSIGHTS | The Western way is lost on the political frontier

Getting the West together on a core set of common beliefs is a caricature worthy of a Buffalo Bill show.

INSIGHTS | Albus Brooks turns the page, again

The story of Albus Brooks didn’t end on Denver’s runoff election night June 4. To think that is to admit you don’t know the soon-to-be-ex city councilman.

INSIGHTS | Hickenlooper takes on ‘The Boy Crisis’

If former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper becomes president, his administration will have a White House Council on Boys and Men.

INSIGHTS | Denver mayor’s race was lost more than won

In the end, Jamie Giellis simply failed to connect with the people who didn’t like Michael Hancock.

INSIGHTS | Colorado GOP is losing the war for women

Republicans can ill afford to lose more ground with suburban moms and ambitious millennial women.

INSIGHTS | Denver’s Olympic hopes are flaming out

We won’t always get the gold, but we should at least stop quitting at some point.

INSIGHTS | Dark money always shines on someone else

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is more than a year away from having a Democratic opponent, and Democrats, instead of vetting the best possible challenger, are unhooking their kitchen sinks to throw at the Republican from Colorado.

INSIGHTS | Denver sprouts a ‘Welcome to Weirdville’ sign

Did that really happen, that mushroom thing in Denver? Colorado’s capital became the first city in the nation to take the law and order out of magic mushrooms, the kind that make you see vivid colors and stuff that’s not really there.

INSIGHTS | How Democrats ruled in the Colorado statehouse

Last November’s elections sent the message that Colorado politics had shifted to the left, and where politics go, government follows.

INSIGHTS | Executive Polis loomed large over legislature

With the Colorado General Assembly’s four-month session now over, Colorado Politics soon will pick winners and losers. One winner in a category all to himself is Gov. Jared Polis, who has made notable progress on his campaign promises.

INSIGHTS | More politics than action on mental health funding

There’s lip service aplenty but little political will around mental health, and we all pay the price for that.

INSIGHTS | A Coloradan over Interior should be a good thing

Love him or hate the Trump administration, Dave Bernhardt should make Colorado proud.

INSIGHTS | Trump and Colorado Republicans: It’s complicated

He’s leaning into his re-election campaign, and the GOP should be paying close attention. You can bet Democrats are.

INSIGHTS | The business sense of Jared Polis

Jared Polis was in his element, and rarely have I seen the new governor more at ease, than during a lunch March 28 with small business owners and operators.

INSIGHTS | Lawmakers are quietly reshaping Colorado justice

Beneath the big headlines of this legislative session — drilling fights, full-day kindergarten, sex ed and the red-flag gun bill — is an undercurrent of deep political and social change for Colorado.

INSIGHTS | A Coloradan in the White House? That’s a high mountain to climb

Unless you’re a Republican, there’s an urge to pull for the home team in next year’s presidential election. The Democratic field is packed like beans in chili, but Colorado has two in the mix, former Gov. John Hickenlooper and Sen. Michael Bennet.

INSIGHTS | Colorado changes with women in power

On March 7, the day before International Women’s Day, Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera was talking on the phone about a way Colorado girls could improve their place in the world from their home computer.

INSIGHTS | Colorado politico knew Roger Stone as a classmate

Dean Toda went to high school with Roger J. Stone Jr. Today, Stone’s the famous political dirty trickster.

INSIGHTS | TABOR a target unless Supreme Court puts it out of reach

Colorado’s most important political football is on the tee. The state Supreme Court in the coming weeks could put the future of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in play or put it out of reach.

INSIGHTS | The soul of politics and coming back from the dead

I died recently. I’ve had a lot going on since then.

INSIGHTS | Colorado is mighty charged up for electric vehicles, but will they go?

If they can’t make it here, they can’t make it anywhere.

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