Author: By JOEY BUNCH [email protected]
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INSIGHTS | Walking through the stockyard of history at the National Western
The first flakes of the new year began to fall just as I began to walk around the National Western Center on a Saturday morning, a sparse lot of vehicles parked here and there. If this 100-acre hillside could talk, I thought, it’d tell stories about a billion or so cow pies that fell on its…
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INSIGHTS | Public dollars are a public good when they’re applied to public roads
Most folks have something they geek out about. One of mine is highway funding. I can’t say why that is, especially since I’m bad at math and everything in transportation is measured in lane miles, cubic yards and calculated rights of way. The origin of geek, though, means a fool, and later a carnival worker,…
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INSIGHTS | Public dollars are a public good when they’re applied to public roads
Most folks have something they geek out about. One of mine is highway funding. I can’t say why that is, especially since I’m bad at math and everything in transportation is measured in lane miles, cubic yards and calculated rights of way. The origin of geek, though, means a fool, and later a carnival worker,…
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‘Shecession’ a lingering economic side effect of COVID-19, says Common Sense Institute
When the tab is added up on COVID-19, women in the workforce will have paid dearly, according to a new labor force analysis by the Denver-based Common Sense Institute. “According to the latest numbers, the ‘shecession’ continues,” Kristin Strohm, the business policy think tank’s president and CEO said in a statement. “For months, the economic…
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INSIGHTS | It’s time to rethink how the sausage is made
There’s an aphorism we like to throw around in state government circles: It’s how the sausage gets made. That’s partly because it’s a grind, partly because it’s full of pork and partly because a slaughterhouse also is a necessary unpleasantry. Like government mystery meat, the phrase itself has sketchy origins. The quote about government, usually attributed…
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INSIGHTS | Time for lawmakers to prove their value to communities of color
One thing Democrats should have learned this year is that Latino voters aren’t as into them as they would like. After the election, Bloomberg News pulled back the curtain on the assumption that voters of color would leap into the questionably loving arms of the left. Donald Trump, after all, characterized undocumented immigrants as gang…
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INSIGHTS | International tax havens safely sheltered in Colorado
Doing nothing isn’t an option anymore. Washington’s gridlock might make you think otherwise, but the price for political grandstanding these days is measured in grief and misery. Millions of people and businesses are waiting for the government to do the right thing as passionately as others are waiting on their vaccine shot. Call me a…
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INSIGHTS | Behold the New Year’s resolutions I make for others
I’m not good at keeping resolutions until I get a kick in the head to change my reckless or sinful ways. Since I have a dire dislike of consequences on myself, allow me to make some resolutions for Colorado politicos. They can thank me later. Here’s what I think they should do in 2021. The…