Author: By Jimmy Sengenberger

Jimmy Sengenberger “Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first,” Angela Ahrendts, Apple’s senior vice president, once said. Unfortunately, Secretary of State Jena Griswold and Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder Joan Lopez, both Democrats, maintain significant staff turnover — a distinct result of their own leadership…

Jimmy Sengenberger TAIPEI, Taiwan — Every Fourth of July, Americans gather throughout the country to celebrate Independence Day, often with grandiose fireworks displays that fill children and adults alike with excitement. Yet as an American visiting the Republic of China — commonly known as Taiwan — during their National Day festivities on Monday, I was blown away…

Jimmy Sengenberger Whether it’s rising expenses or less taxpayer money coming back to us, Coloradans have ample opportunity to vote our way to more inflation this year. It’s a pretty mind-boggling phenomenon given how the cost of almost everything is on the rise. As The Wall Street Journal editorialized last week, “Consumer prices overall rose…

Jimmy Sengenberger These days, Hollywood seems to take every opportunity for throwbacks to all those “oldies but goodies,” playing into nostalgia. It’s super easy, maybe even lazy — but it works brilliantly. At Disney’s D23 Expo, the entertainment giant released a teaser bound to excite Peyton Manning fans: a Disney+ sequel to the 90’s Christmas classic…

Jimmy Sengenberger As national media — from CNN to The New York Times to The Washington Post — declare “Colorado’s sleeper Senate race just got real,” Michael Bennet is trying to hide from Joe Biden. Biden “doesn’t need to come here,” Bennet reportedly said last month, insisting his campaign will “do just fine” without him. Given Biden’s…

Jimmy Sengenberger When Pam Anderson won the Republican nomination for secretary of state, Jena Griswold was caught flat-footed. As soon as it became clear that Anderson had crushed Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters — whose name alone helped Griswold generate more than $2 million in campaign contributions — Griswold had no clue what to do. She wasn’t…

Jimmy Sengenberger “When you’re living in a glass schoolhouse,” I wrote in February, “you probably shouldn’t throw stones.” Sometimes, though, the stone-throwing temptation is simply irresistible. “I believe this is our opportunity to turn the page,” Denver Public Schools school board member Tay Anderson told Westword last week, “because our students deserve a school board…

Jimmy Sengenberger When Gov. Jared Polis and legislative Democrats unveiled our $750-per-person TABOR refund checks, they tried their best to pretend the voter-approved Taxpayer Bill of Rights doesn’t deserve credit. In a brazen attempt at language manipulation — designed for Democrats to take credit for the refund — they dubbed it “Colorado Cash Back.” I was the…

Jimmy Sengenberger Failed secretary of state candidate Tina Peters has either proven she doesn’t understand Colorado’s election process, or she’s brazenly attempting to deceive the public with her statewide recount stunt. When Republican Jono Scott lost his race for Aurora City Council Ward III last fall, Ruben Medina bested him by just 128 votes. Some…

Jimmy Sengenberger Last year, Democrats voted party-line to repeal Colorado’s preemption law that prohibited local governments from passing gun control laws that exceed state law. At the time, Republicans sounded the alarm. One Democrat, Rep. Don Valdez of La Jara, even crossed the aisle to vote no. A patchwork of gun laws — and the county-by-county,…