Tag: Insights
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INSIGHTS | The soul of politics and coming back from the dead
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save I died recently. I haven’t reported this, but I’ve had a lot going on since then. Finding my way back from pneumonia, a heart attack and a triple bypass has been a long, rough road that I’m still stumbling down. In a hospital bed, doctors…
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INSIGHTS | Denver has lots of problems with parking
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Editor’s note: Joey Bunch is away, so this week we revisit his Insights column of Aug. 17, 2018. “Anywhere but downtown,” I emailed to an excellent source about meeting up in Denver for lunch. “The parking is ridiculous.” The gears of growth in our state’s…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado usually leads the pack
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save My friend Patty Calhoun, the editor of Westword, put the right words to what’s been on my mind lately during a chat on Colorado Inside Out, KBDI-Colorado Public Television’s current-affairs discussion show. In a two-part taping for the Dec. 7 and Dec. 21 episodes, we talked about…
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INSIGHTS | Gunfire in the South rings in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Galleria mall in Hoover, Alabama, a Birmingham suburb, seemed as much a carnival as it was a shopping center. It opened on a Wednesday in February 1986, two weeks after the space shuttle exploded. The size of big-city airport, it was the biggest in…
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INSIGHTS | Washington runs hot & cold on climate, fires
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save You can’t say the Trump administration has no plan to combat the ravages of climate change. Pick up a rake and head to the forest, President Trump seemed to suggest after viewing the ravages of the California wildfire. In a burned-down community called Paradise, the…
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INSIGHTS | Walker Stapleton, from his wife’s point of view
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At a campaign event at the Republican Party’s Victory Office in Greenwood Village a few weeks ago, Walker Stapleton literally hugged two of his three kids around him as he told the packed house about a Colorado future he wants to create for his kids…
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INSIGHTS | ‘Y’all Come’ isn’t on the playlist of Colorado’s candidates for governor
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For 50 weeks a year, a chunk of property in the middle of what passes for a town in rural Alabama sat vacant of everything but insects, snakes and a weather-stained block of concrete the size of a flatbed trailer. For two weeks each summer,…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado beat the Russians at its election games
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When Wayne Williams took office in 2015, secretaries of state didn’t talk much about hackers or, if at all, Russians. Now those topics dominate discussions among the sharpest minds and deepest worriers about the security of our elections. Colorado became a tough nut to crack…
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INSIGHTS: Public loses authority to police campaign finance
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On “The Andy Griffith Show,” Gomer Pyle took the law into his own hands. After Barney Fife wrote Gomer a ticket for an illegal U-turn, the deputy made the same mistake. Gomer leaped from the cab of his truck and into law enforcement. “Citizen’s arrest,…
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INSIGHTS: Trump sowing seeds of doubt in Colorado farm country
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If you want to make some noise, you stick the pig that squeals loudest. That’s what you need to know about the Chinese tariffs on 128 U.S. agricultural products and what it could mean for President Trump. Coloradans in the business of livestock and crops…