Author: By JOEY BUNCH [email protected]
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INSIGHTS | It’s harvest time for KC Becker’s legislative fruit
KC Becker has to be feeling good about the Colorado she’s helped create these days. You might or might not feel the same way. Nobody, though, can say the former House speaker from Boulder hasn’t delivered on what she went to Denver to do, when she was elected to the legislature in 2012. Colorado is…
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INSIGHTS | The road ahead on transportation is one less taken
Maybe it’s because Charles Ashby and I are curmudgeons, trolls beneath the bridge of Capitol discourse, but it is what it is. When transportation leaders from across the state opened the virtual floor for questions Tuesday morning, my favorite Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reporter and I were the first two in line and with questions…
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INSIGHTS | The road ahead on transportation is one less taken
Maybe it’s because Charles Ashby and I are curmudgeons, trolls beneath the bridge of Capitol discourse, but it is what it is. When transportation leaders from across the state opened the virtual floor for questions Tuesday morning, my favorite Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reporter and I were the first two in line and with questions…
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New report shows price drivers pay for shoddy transportation funding
Legislators’ other priorities for more than a decade are costing metro drivers basically an extra house payment a year with lawn mowing: $2,000 in wear, tear, fuel and lost time behind the wheel, according to a new study by a national nonprofit transportation research group. The 50-year-old, Washington, D.C.-based outfit, The Road Information Program (TRIP),…
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New report shows price drivers pay for shoddy transportation funding
Legislators’ other priorities for more than a decade are costing metro drivers basically an extra house payment a year with lawn mowing: $2,000 in wear, tear, fuel and lost time behind the wheel, according to a new study by a national nonprofit transportation research group. The 50-year-old, Washington, D.C.-based outfit, The Road Information Program (TRIP),…
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INSIGHTS | Bob Beauprez thinks about mending our broken politics
It’s not that he doesn’t have better things to do. Bob Beauprez has a field full of bison roaming his range in Jackson County, high up in the spotty-cell service country. I was glad, then, to catch up with him recently to get his take on current affairs, especially since Jan. 6, and whether his…
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INSIGHTS | Don’t disrespect Bama in the race for Space Command
Look, I get it. If you were talking about college football, there would no shame at all in losing to Alabama. Everybody loses to the Crimson Tide. Anything else stings a little, especially losing the headquarters for Space Command to the Yellowhammer State. The broken Heart of Dixie ranked 45th for its pre-pandemic economy by…
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INSIGHTS | If you can’t save public schools now, you can’t save public schools
A powder keg of problems rested under public education long before the pandemic: chronically underfunded, too few teachers, too little pay, a parental blame repository for everything wrong with kids and invisibility for what’s right. And along came a virus. God only knows what’s in front of us. It’s bound to be historic. Colorado this…
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INSIGHTS | Working women pay the pandemic’s highest prices
The problem is staring us in the face, but the solutions elude us. The Common Sense Institute first laid it out last month: Call this pandemic’s economic toll a “shecession.” From last February through November, labor force participation for women with children fell 8.6%, and the monthly pay gap between men and women fell 14%.…
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INSIGHTS | The federal stimulus means life and liberty in Colorado
It was the luckiest coin toss Toné Perez ever lost. He and his wife, Nicole, had their third child two years ago, and juggling two busy careers and a small business with seven employees, “We were done” having kids, Toné told me. One of them would see a doctor to see to that, and they flipped a…