Socially Distanced Prez Debate Open Thread
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Mayor Mike Coffman’s Interesting COVID Advice: Dine Out!
As government entities large and small across the globe respond to the widening COVID-19 outbreak, urging and in many cases forcing public gatherings to a halt in an effort to “flatten the curve” of disease transmission beneath the capacity of public health systems to cope at any one time, former GOP Congressman and Aurora Mayor […]
Colorado General Assembly Adjourns Until March 30
UPDATE: The Denver Post’s Alex Burness: Lawmakers tentatively plan to return to work March 30, but they acknowledge there’s a high chance they’ll have to extend the recess beyond that date. This step seemed unthinkable to many lawmakers as recently as late last week, when the state’s first known coronavirus case was announced. By early […]
Distract Yourself: Caption Trump’s Coronavirus Chart
You know what to do, readers. May your chart be more reassuring than the President’s in these troubled times.
Meanwhile, in the House of Representatives
While President Trump made it very clear that he is abdicating responsibility for the fact that the United States was ill-prepared to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was doing work to make things better. From The Washington Post: The White House and House Democrats reached agreement Friday on a coronavirus relief […]
Get More Smarter on Friday the 13th
We’ve added a new “Coronavirus” section to our news roundup to keep that news quarantined. It’s time to Get More Smarter. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of an audio/visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show […]
President Trump Keeps Lying About Coronavirus
UPDATE: Eli Stokols of the Los Angeles Times (and formerly Fox 31 News in Colorado) summarizes Trump’s truth troubles: One of the areas on which Trump has most conspicuously made statements that don’t square with reality involves testing for the virus. “We’ve done a good job on testing,” he insisted Thursday. Almost simultaneously, Dr. Anthony […]
Frank McNulty: So Damn Ethical You’ll Throw Up A Little
As readers know, there is an ongoing complaint before the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission targeting former Gov. John Hickenlooper over travel expenses incurred in the course of his duties as well as certain private events which are subject to the state’s ethics laws passed by voters overwhelmingly in 2006. As we wrote a few weeks […]
Wait, What? Trump Holding Event for Gardner at White House?
UPDATE #6: The Colorado Times Recorder has the latest damage control report. —– UPDATE #5: And now they’re blaming reporters. The ONLY event that had been publicly announced for Friday was a fundraiser in Colorado for Cory Gardner. Why would a reporter assume there was something different? This is how bad info spreads. The Gardner […]
Is Trump Seriously Still Coming To Colorado?
UPDATE (7:50 pm): Guess not: BREAKING: “Out of an abundance of caution from the coronavirus outbreak, the president has decided to cancel his upcoming events in Colorado and Nevada,” White House’s Stephanie Grisham says. https://t.co/NxRmDGCcec — Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 12, 2020 —– Revisiting the Denver Post’s report from last week, which seems like ages […]