Top Ten Colorado Politics Stories of 2019
Here’s our definitive recap of the wild wooly year in Colorado politics that was 2019.
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Like It Or Not, Abortion A Defining 2020 Battleground
The Denver Post’s Saja Hindi published before Chirstmas a very good long-form story on the changing politics of reproductive choice in Colorado, an issue long disparaged by local political reporters as irrelevant given the state’s solid Democratic control of the levers of power, but no longer as the rightward lurch of the federal judiciary up […]
The Get More Smarter Podcast: Bold Predictions for 2020
This is it: The final episode of 2019 for The Get More Smarter Podcast. To close out the year, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii discuss the most important Colorado political stories of 2019 and look ahead to 2020 with some bold predictions. Will Democrats take control of the U.S. Senate in 2020? Can Sen. Cory Gardner win […]
“The Happy Warrior Has Become a Car Salesman”
The latest U.S. Senate prognostication from the Cook Political Report’s Jennifer Duffy declares the Senate majority very much in play as 2019 comes to a close, which most readers already know–and that Colorado’s incumbent GOP Sen. Cory Gardner is one of several must-win swing races expected to decide the majority in the 2020 elections. The […]
Get More Smarter on Thursday (December 19)
If you’re counting today, there are six shopping days left until Christmas. 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 or The Get […]
Trump Goes Even Lower
NBC News: Republicans are calling on President Donald Trump to apologize for a macabre quip about the late Democratic Rep. John Dingell at his rally in Michigan on Wednesday night, suggesting that Dingell was “looking up” from hell. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally, and two House Republicans from Michigan called for the never-penitent […]
Trump So Mad At Pelosi He Could Just Scream–So He Does
The Hill reports that the President of the United States may be in the process of, in the vernacular, losing his shit: President Trump sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday urging her to halt impeachment proceedings one day before the House is set to vote to impeach him, accusing Democrats of […]
Even More Evidence of 710 KNUS Producer’s Nazi Alter Ego
The ongoing scrutiny by local media continues of 710 KNUS producer Kirk Widlund, who remains in his job almost two weeks after an expose by the Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists of a not-so-hidden social media profile on the Russian VK network attributed to Widlund that, if authentic as a growing body of evidence suggests, pegs Widlund […]
Republicans Flummoxed on Prescription Drug Pricing
While you were reading about impeachment news last week, you may have missed a significant vote in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives addressing an issue that is of utmost concern to American voters in 2020: Reducing the outrageous costs of prescription drugs. The “Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act” (HR-3) passed out of […]
You’ve Been Warned, Colorado
At an event at the White House today, President Donald Trump remarked that he will “be in Colorado a lot,” citing our “great Senator” whom he needs to “extend,” which is presumably not a reference to Sen. Cory Gardner’s diminutive stature. As readers know, Gardner has said repeatedly that he hopes Trump will travel to […]