Author: Dan Njegomir
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EDITORIAL: Colorado’s costly call of the wild
If only managing the state’s wildlife were as simple as dialing in Animal Planet from your suburban family room and then reaching for the remote when it’s time to shoo the kids off to bed — and the animal kingdom back to the wilds. For the vast majority of Coloradans, that’s where their understanding of…
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Some moderation on masks, if you please
At some point in the pandemic, you probably found yourself waiting in line at a convenience store, inching uneasily away from a man in front of you who was ranting at the clerk after being asked to put on a mask. Or, maybe you were at a red light, and your eyes happened to wander…
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Q&A with Lynn Granger | ‘We are part of the solution’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save She’s the new face and voice of the Colorado Petroleum Council — a fresh recruit on the front line in the battle over oil and gas development — but Lynn Granger is hardly a newcomer to the war of words that drives every policy debate.…
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Q&A with Dave Davia | ‘We need a balanced approach’ — on all issues
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Dave Davia is one of those players in Colorado politics who helps align the sun, moon and stars to make things happen — while leaving center stage to others. His motivation? “I am fiercely proud of our state and the things that make it such…
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Q&A w/Kristin Strohm | Republican rainmaker and agent of change
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save So, what is to be done about the unholy alliance between money and politics? Policy wonks and editorialists wring their hands over that perennial talking point, but streetwise insiders say the answer’s simple: Get yourself a good fundraiser. And Colorado’s center-right political realm has found…
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4 Colorado ex-governors + 1 current guv + 1 Lynn Bartels = a fun read
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save All of Colorado’s living ex-governors and the one who’s still in office — that John Hickenlooper fella — sat in on the same panel discussion Thursday, weighing in on the heavy issue of partisanship in contemporary politics. Yes, all five of them: Dick Lamm, Roy Romer,…
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Beauprez confirms he’s being eyed for Interior secretary
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Republican former congressman Bob Beauprez confirmed reports today that he is among those under consideration to become the Trump administration’s secretary of the interior, a Cabinet post of pivotal importance to Colorado and the West. The conservative political blog Colorado Peak Politics reported earlier today that Beauprez,…