March 24, 2015 02:21 PM UTC

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (March 24)

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• by: Colorado Pols

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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