Sorry folks, we’ve been filling up on Vitamin D this Spring Break. It’s better late than never to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).
TOP OF MIND TODAY…
► It’s apparently a significant story on cable news today that Ted Cruz switched to country music after 9/11. Reportedly he was a classic rocker before that terrible day:
“I actually intellectually find this very curious, but on 9/11, I didn’t like how rock music responded,” he said. “And country music, collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.”
Okie dokie then.
► In other Cruz news, no one is happier about his presidential aspirations than Hillary Rodham Clinton.
► President Barack Obama is delaying the withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan. Our thoughts are with affected troops and their families.
► For the first time in almost seven years, child poverty is down in Colorado. That’s really good news, because what this economic recovery needs most is to be felt by more kids.
Get even more smarter after the jump…
SHOULD YOU FIND YOURSELF STANDING NEAR A WATER COOLER…
► The OPEC price war sinks in: drilling rig count in Colorado down by 48% from last October.
► Despite major geopolitical trouble for the UNBELIEVABLY IMPORTANT SECTOR OF THE ECONOMY THAT WE ALL DEPEND ON known as oil and gas drilling, Colorado is adding jobs like all get-out.
► Bills are moving, at least for now, to put the question of increasing Colorado’s minimum wage before the voters.
► A compromise providing at least some funding to the undocumented immigrant driver license program is headed to Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk.
► You might soon be able to drain water off your roof into a bucket and use it. That may not seem like a big deal, but in Colorado, it surer than hell is. “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting,” as the saying goes.
OTHER LINKS YOU SHOULD CLICK
► Six new episodes of the X-Files, people. The truth is still out there…
► We can’t improve on this title: “No, Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Hasn’t Dragged the City’s Economy Down.”
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How DARE you disparage the black oozy lifeblood of our state.
Ted cruz signs up for Obamacare http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/24/politics/ted-cruz-obamacare/index.html
Mike Coffman is on Obamacare too. He says it’s awful.
What else is he going to say? Besides. You do realize anecdotes ofi ndividual experience aren’t the point in determining whether a program has a net positive or negative effect, right. The stats indisputably show a net positive. All the people who found their pre-ACA coverage awful or had it canceled when they got too sick or couldn’t get any after losing a policy when they changed jobs while committing the crime of having a condition that was diagnosed before they lost their old insurance didn’t seem to bother you at all. Have you compared stats on how many found the old system awful or were locked out of it altogether as opposed to the number dissatisfied now? And Coffman’s complaints, to the extent they are truly valid, were largely found to be the result of his own bad choices. Almost as if he went out of his way so he could report a negative experience.
What, the gold-plated Congressional legislator plan? With the 72% Federal premium subsidies and the VIP customer service? With 112 “gold”level plans to choose from?
Oh yes, it’s awful, Mr. Coffman, just terrible. So terrible that a principled guy like you should have given it up long ago….why haven’t you?
And couldn’t Cynthia put him on her state employee plan? It’s nice to have options.