Author: By JOEY BUNCH [email protected]

From doctors to deliveries and the comings and goings of tax rates on property, it was a dizzying session for dollars flowing into and out of the Colorado state Capitol. As always, the government gives and the government takes away. Redistribution is the American way. I’ve been doing this for decades, and I’ve never seen…

If you thought you saw an unidentified aerial phenomena above the state Capitol, let’s say it was swamp gas over the Colorado public option, which isn’t public and not much of an option. I’ve been following this public option policy discussion since I was in high school, or maybe it just feels that way, but…

Any day now I should get a sense of the comeuppance I’ve got coming from another dimension. Things started turning against me last year when President Donald Trump signed a pandemic relief package with a caveat tucked inside: as soon as this week we may know everything the government knows about UFOs, after a series…

Without question, those with the least suffered the most the past year. Folks with lower-income jobs — restaurant and hotel workers, childcare providers, teachers, moms — are still being tossed by the receding floodwaters of this economic storm. The system is awash with stimulus cash, and it’s up to our state representatives, county commissions and town councils…

A funny thing happened at the Colorado Senate Finance Committee meeting last week. A transportation policy meeting broke out, carrying an environmental debate on its back. And yet they we were talking about the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, climate change, carpool lanes, seed money for Front Range rail and kicking the can down the road…

The Common Sense Institute business think tank issued its latest analysis around premiums and the proposed public option before the legislature, finding that proposed caps on premiums are well below the projected growth of of medical costs. That translates to being unlikely that insurance carriers will be able to meet the 18% target over three…

Wellington Webb always sauntered into the Welton Street Cafe like he owned the joint. The Welton Street Cafe has been his office away from the office for as long as he can remember. “I’ve been going there for ever,” he told me on the phone this week, pivoting to his family. “Wilma goes there. My…