Tag: Joey Bunch
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Finding solace in Colorado’s open spaces | Vince Bzdek
I look out at the rife white of late winter in the Rockies and all I see are the ground willows now, thin as grace notes and flush red at their tips, like cold fingers. It’s their stubborn subtlety that makes my heart ache a little, as do children’s secrets or the beauty of determined…
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The return of the flaming moderates: Primary election a victory for the Great American Middle | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hail to the flaming moderates. If this past Tuesday’s primary election was anything, it was a victory for the Great American Middle. Across Colorado, moderate, mainstream Republicans won their races against more extreme ones. The GOP candidates who supported election conspiracy theories and questioned the…
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It’s time for the adults to take Colorado Republicans home from Fantasyland | Vince Bzdek
A pretty entertaining, temporary theme park was installed in Colorado Springs’ Broadmoor World Arena last weekend. Call it Republican Fantasyland. Or maybe just plain ol’ Conspiracyland. Just like the artificial world we all loved as kids, it had plenty of fantastical story lines, an Enchanted Forest of cheering fenceposts, and a cast of characters as…
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Blame the media? Let me introduce you to a few in Colorado first | Vince Bzdek
During the sacking of the Capitol last week, someone engraved the words “Murder the Media” on one of the doors of democracy’s cathedral. And members of the news media who were reporting on the violence that day were secondary targets, threatened and surrounded at times, their colleagues inside forced to shelter in secure locations for…
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ELECTION 2020 | Update with Joey Bunch
Colorado Politics deputy managing editor and senior writer, Joey Bunch, gives an update on the election in Colorado. (Video by Katie Klann & Skyler Ballard)
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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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Study cites costs of oil and gas measure; Ken Salazar calls it unconstitutional
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A study by a business coalition released July 27 crunched the costs of putting 2,500-foot setbacks between homes and oil and gas operations in Colorado. “If passed, this initiative will have a devastating impact on our economy,” Earl Wright, chairman of the Common Sense Policy…
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Rising political star Amber McReynolds leaving Denver elections post
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A potential candidate being sized up by insiders to run for Denver city clerk next year, then possibly higher office has her own plans. Amber McReynolds, Denver’s ubiquitous director of elections, is leaving Aug. 18 to become executive director of the National Vote at Home…
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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,…