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Get More Smarter on Monday (Feb. 8)

The Denver Broncos are the Super Bowl Champions! Just in case there is someone out there in Colorado who hasn’t heard yet. It’s time 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… ► What will President Obama do […]

Statesman celebrates 118th birthday with launch of new business model

The Colorado Statesman celebrated its 118th birthday last night, with a party at the Governor’s Mansion carriage house and the launch of a new website and business model. In a short speech at the event, Statesman Publisher Jared Wright praised his staff and noted that the newspaper now has more capitol reporters than any other […]

Get More Smarter on Friday (Feb. 5)

By this time next week, Peyton Manning may be retired from football; here’s hoping he has another Super Bowl ring as a going away present. It’s time 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… ► Yes, […]

Coloradans Reject “Liar Keyser”

Following a petition drive in January to expose the ethically questionable record of Rep. Jon Keyser, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest online advocacy organization, released comments from the public showing Coloradans are tired of dishonest right-wing politicians who will say and do anything to win elections. This comes after Washington, D.C.-based ethics group American Democracy […]

Get More Smarter On Thursday (Feb. 4)

Note to selves: Do NOT ask Rick Santorum to speak on your behalf. It’s time 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… ► The Parental Leave Act took another step forward in the Colorado legislature on […]

DeGette To House GOP: End Planned Parenthood Witch Hunts

As the Colorado Independent’s Marianne Goodland reports: Five members of Congress, including Denver Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, are calling on their Republican colleagues to end the investigations into Planned Parenthood. The request comes in the wake of a grand jury indictment in Texas against David Daleiden and Sandra S. Merritt of the Center for Medical […]

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (Feb. 3)

According to a source with the Ted Cruz campaign, all of the other GOP Presidential candidates are dropping out and supporting him. That’s not true? Oh. It’s time 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… ► Donald […]

Math Is Hard, Tom Lucero Edition

The post-Iowa speculation on the right side of the aisle in Colorado is taking its usual turn for the comedic–here’s the always colorful Adams County Republican John Sampson, sounding off darkly about coin tosses that decided a few precincts in the admittedly close Democratic contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders: That’s not exactly right, of course–coin […]

Get More Smarter on Groundhog Day (Feb. 2)

See? We told you that you were going to get a snow day. It’s time 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… ► The big news is in from Gobbler’s Knob: The Groundhog emerged and […]

Rocky Mountain Whistle Pigs and Reluctant Politicians

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) It seems unlikely that any yellow-bellied “whistle pig” or other Rocky Mountain variant of the ground hog will be out today to cast a shadow. But I still think Colorado is in for a few more weeks of winter.  It’s going to take that long for the snow to melt in […]

Dems Roll Priola Over “Family Values” Hypocrisy

GOP Rep. Kevin Priola, looking to trade up to the Senate this year in a competitive race to succeed outgoing Democratic Sen. Mary Hodge, did himself no favors last week after requesting a delay in voting on a parental leave bill to take his own child to a doctor’s appointment–and then voting no on the bill. […]

Get More Smarter on Monday (Feb. 1)

No snow day for you…but maybe tomorrow. It’s time 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… ► The Iowa caucuses have arrived at last. To celebrate, we’re holding our own caucus prediction contest with an amazing […]

BREAKING: Jack Graham Enters GOP Senate Race with $1M and a Wadhams

The race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate just changed in a big way. As Ernest Luning reports for the Colorado Statesman: Former CSU athletic director Jack Graham is planning to petition his way onto what could be a crowded Republican primary ballot for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Michael Bennet, and he seeded his run […]

Get More Smarter on Friday (Jan. 29)

Remember, friends: That Super Bowl party you were invited to attend is next Sunday. It’s time 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… ► The final Republican Presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses was held last night […]

Tim Neville Driving Colorado GOP Senate Clown Car

The Denver Post’s John Frank has a good story up this week on the large field of relatively low-level Republican candidates now competing for the chance to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in this year’s U.S. Senate race. Frank’s story is doing a good job defining the players early for a national audience […]

Expect Gardner to co-sponsor Life at Conception Act soon

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Republican Sen. Cory Gardner spent a good chunk of his election campaign telling us that the Life at Conception Act was really nothing more than a symbolic statement, when, in fact, it is federal personhood legislation that would ban all abortion, even for rape. Gardner infamously described the Life at Conception […]

Get More Smarter on Thursday (Jan. 28)

With any luck, tonight’s GOP Presidential debate will be the last time we have to listen to at least half the candidates. To Iowa…and beyond!!! It’s time 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… ► […]

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (Jan. 27)

A bunch of armed terrorists take over a federal building in Oregon, and they blame law enforcement when one of them is killed. Sure, that makes sense. It’s time 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… […]

Gun Bills Head For Usual Fate, With One Improbable Maybe

As the Colorado Independent’s Corey Hutchins reports, Republicans in the Colorado General Assembly led by Sen. Tim Neville are pushing most of the usual slate of pro-gun bills in 2016, starting with another attempt to repeal the 15-round magazine limit passed in 2013: Lawmakers in Colorado, including one state Senator who’s running for higher office, […]

BREAKING: Controversy Rocks GOP HD-25 Vacancy

In the wake of Tim Leonard’s victory in the GOP Colorado House District 25 vacancy committee selection this past weekend, dissidents led by ubiquitous conservative watchdog Marilyn Marks are challenging the process by which the members of the vacancy committee were organized. A Facebook post from Florence Urbish Sebern, a Republican activist in Denver, appears to […]

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (Jan. 26)

Only seven more days until we can stop pretending to care about Iowa’s opinion. It’s time 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… ► Transportation funding is quickly rising to the top of the to-do list […]

One of These Two News Reports Is Wrong

An unusual conflict arose in news reports over an incident Friday on the floor of the Colorado House. As the Colorado Independent’s Marianne Goodland reports, House Democrats paused to observe the 43rd anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion rights: Roughly two dozen Colorado House Democrats took to the floor to recognize the 43rd anniversary […]

Fox 31 Denver fills Stokols’ political reporter position

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) In the nine long months after political reporter Eli Stokols left Fox 31 Denver, it looked like the local TV station’s surprising reputation as a go-to source for political news, cultivated by over a decade of obsessive work by Stokols, was going to be completely lost. Serious politics coverage at Fox […]

Woody Returns in Bobblehead Form

Republican businessman Robert Blaha is one of 10 candidates actively seeking the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in 2016, but he is the first of the Republican field to have aired a campaign commercial. Blahs’s first ad, dubbed “Product Guarantee,” apparently aired last Sunday during the Denver Broncos’ playoff victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. If you missed […]

Bartels’ blog: Smart PR? A partisan problem? A new kind of journalism?

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) When political reporter Lynn Bartels left The Denver Post last year for a communications job at the Secretary of State’s (SOS) office, it appeared she’d left journalism. But it turns out, maybe not completely—depending on your definition of journalism. As the communications director for Colorado Republican SOS Wayne Williams, Bartels is […]

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