Author: Tom Cronin Bob Loevy
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Michael Bennet’s campaign for governor: A closer look at record and experience | Cronin and Loevy
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is considered the front-runner in the Colorado Democratic Party primary contest for governor. His major opponent is current Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. The Democratic primary election is June 30. Registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters who choose to can vote in this election. Ballots are being mailed out starting Monday. Michael F. Bennet, 61, was born in New Delhi, India, where his father…
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Attorney General Phil Weiser’s underdog campaign for Colorado governor | Cronin and Loevy
Phil Weiser, 58, Colorado’s attorney general, is in a heated race against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, 61, for the Democratic nomination for governor. They are friends and share mostly similar progressive, Democratic policy views. Primary election day is June 30. Weiser first came to Colorado in 1994 and was a longtime professor and dean of…
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Home rule has protected Colorado cities for over 125 years | Cronin and Loevy
Colorado is currently gripped by a political struggle between the governor plus the legislature in Denver and populous home-rule city governments, mainly on the Front Range. In the past few years, the legislature has been passing bills that applied to city government policies, which for many years had been the sole province of mayors and…
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Passenger train service from Denver to Fort Collins? | Cronin and Loevy
A “Joint Service” plan is being developed that would bring passenger rail service from Denver north to Fort Collins by 2029. The passenger trains would be paid for with existing funds from the Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) and other Colorado agencies that are working to institute passenger train service in Colorado. No voter-approved tax…
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Home rule has protected Colorado cities for over 125 years | Cronin and Loevy
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Colorado is currently gripped by a political struggle between the governor plus the legislature in Denver and populous home-rule city governments, mainly on the Front Range, such as Colorado Springs. In the past few years, the legislature has been passing bills that applied to city government policies, which for many years had been the sole province of mayors and city councils. These new state laws have mainly…
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Mail-in ballots: Why the controversy | Cronin and Loevy
Most Coloradans enjoy the right to vote by mail at election time. Most Americans favor this process. But President Donald Trump is trying to federalize (nationalize) this practice and shift the supervision of voting from county clerks to the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Postal Service. He issued an executive order to this…
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Bill would allow large apartment projects in single-family neighborhoods | Cronin and Loevy
There is an old joke that goes something like this. “When the state legislature is in session, no person and their property are safe.” That is not a joke in the older, more traditional neighborhoods that surround the downtown regions of Colorado’s major cities. For the past two years, the annual sessions of the Colorado legislature have produced a steady stream of bills that attempt to take control of city planning and zoning functions away from city governments and put…
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Who has the power to declare war? | Cronin and Loevy
Our constitutional framers boldly and ambitiously granted Congress the power to declare war yet granted the executive the responsibility, after war is declared, to supervise war as the commander-in-chief. That worked well until the Cold War began. The U.S. has been involved in dozens of wars, antiterrorist operations and other military interventions over the past 80…
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Additional thoughts on State of the Union address/rally | Cronin and Loevy
The U.S. Constitution’s Article II states that “He (the president) shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient … “ On Jan. 8, 1790, our first president, George Washington, appeared at Federal Hall…
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What Gallup polls teach us about presidents | Cronin and Loevy
The Gallup organization, founded by George Gallup, announced on Feb. 11 they will no longer conduct their well-known polls that rate whether Americans approve or disapprove of the way presidents are handling their job. Gallup began these polls in the late 1930s, halting them only during World War II. The Gallup staff has said no…