Author: Lynn Bartels
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BARTELS | Colorado Gives Day inspires kindness statewide
If ever there was a year to give, this jobs-lost, restaurants-closed, hospitals-overwhelmed kind of a year is the one. ”I don’t know how much worse my situation can get,” a neighbor recently wrote on Nextdoor. “I am out of work due to COVID …’’ I felt overwhelmed on Colorado Gives Day on Dec. 8. I…
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BARTELS | Colorado Gives Day inspires kindness statewide
If ever there was a year to give, this jobs-lost, restaurants-closed, hospitals-overwhelmed kind of a year is the one. “I don’t know how much worse my situation can get,” a neighbor recently wrote on Nextdoor. “I am out of work due to COVID …’’ I felt overwhelmed on Colorado Gives Day last Tuesday. I knew…
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BARTELS | Buckle down, GOP lawmakers: wear a mask and focus on real issues
Republicans, I want you to get stronger, to get well, to take on Colorado Democrats as equals and not as some gutted minority party, but on the opening day of the special session what happened? You made wearing masks an issue. Yes, and during a special session to deal with the pandemic that has terrorized…
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BARTELS | Celebrating a true public servant
Here’s to a true public servant: Pam Anderson. She worked as the municipal clerk in Wheat Ridge before being elected Jefferson County clerk and recorder. She served as president-elect of the Colorado County Clerks Association in 2013, when the group worked with the legislature to pass a bill requiring mail ballots be sent to all…
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BARTELS | Celebrating a true public servant
Here’s to a true public servant: Pam Anderson. She worked as the municipal clerk in Wheat Ridge before being elected Jefferson County clerk and recorder. She served as president-elect of the Colorado County Clerks Association in 2013 when the group worked with the Legislature to pass a bill requiring mail ballots be sent to all…
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BARTELS | Adding it all up In the aftermath of the 2020 election
Democrat Joe Biden is set to become the next president of America. Somewhere in heaven, the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona and the late Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, no fans of President Donald Trump, are high-fiving and laughing. Their red states voted blue. Trump, of course, finds it inconceivable that the country rejected…
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BARTELS | In the aftermath of the 2020 election, here’s what did — and didn’t — add up
Democrat Joe Biden is set to become the next president of America. Somewhere in heaven, the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona and the late Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, no fans of President Donald Trump, are high-fiving and laughing. Their red states voted blue. Trump, of course, finds it inconceivable that the country rejected…
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BARTELS | Thoughts from an unsurprising Colorado Election
Those Americans who thought the election would be a total repudiation of President Trump, that Texas and Florida might even turn red, and that Democrats would win control of the Senate, watched in amazement on Election Day as the world’s best known Internet troll won state after state. I’m no fan of Donald Trump, and…
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BARTELS | Closing the book on Election 2020 with a few endnotes
Those Americans who thought the election would be a total repudiation of President Donald Trump, that Texas and Florida might even turn blue, and that Democrats would win control of the U.S. Senate, watched in amazement on Election Day as the world’s best-known internet troll won state after state. I’m no fan of Donald Trump,…
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BARTELS | Tumbling through the last spins of the election cycle
We might not know on election night whether President Donald Trump won reelection or if former Vice President Joe Biden returns to the White House, but with any luck this election cycle is winding down. Cable TV brought the advent of the 24-hour news cycle and with it the permanent campaign. But this particular run…