Jake Fogleman

Grateful to the @WSJopinion for publishing my letter. Tax hike schemes in the Beltway and along the coasts are understandably capturing a lot of attention, but Colorado could be ground zero for one of the biggest tax and spending overhauls in the country this year. #copolitics

NEW: Colorado Connector train -- known as CoCo -- will cost $5B at full build, most of it from a 0.333% tax #COpolitics #COgov #COleg axios.com/local/denver/2…

The modern environmental movement in a nutshell: “After doing this work for 20 years, it is easier to mobilize communities to block something than it is to build something.” eenews.net/articles/a-bet…

Citing taxes and energy mandates, owners close sports complex after 3 years businessden.com/citing-taxes-a…

The commission continues to stick it to hunters for no good reason. "The commission voted 6-5 to impose the limit, which is stricter than the options presented by Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff. Agency staff members told commissioners that they did not believe a daily trapping limit was necessary because there was no evidence that trapping levels were high enough to impact the species’ population."

A sad sign of where #copolitics is heading. A sitting CO lawmaker using an antisemite (dressed like Mao) to help rally in support of a tax hike measure.

Also, as someone who has to analyze and write about these rulings, I am hereby calling for a moratorium on ~200-page decisions with every judge writing their own opinion. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

It's kind of funny that the AR-15 ban circuit split gun-rights advocates were hoping would entice the Supreme Court to take up an "assault weapon" ban case didn't arrive until after the Court already agreed to take one up.

Boomers already dominate the housing market. Now, as empty nesters, they want even bigger homes. on.wsj.com/4pp321d

Shontel Lewis' campaign launch for Denver mayor is going ... weirdly. #copolitics

This is a thread about Andrew Ross Sorkin, who apparently believes that you are stupid. In today's DealBook, Sorkin laments that the House has passed a bill that would prevent credit companies from tracking firearms purchases. Here's the segment. (1)

The Spirit of Aloha rages against the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mad not only about the result in Wolford v. Lopez, the Court issues an unhinged attack on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. I haven't ever seen something like this. And it's not good.

China continues to lean on its coal-fired power plants to meet growing electricity demand, with June thermal power output coming ~0.9% higher than a year ago. China has posted a y-on-y increase in coal-fired generation every month in the first half of the year, heading toward an annual all-time high in 2026.

There are multiple studies showing that Trump's decision to undermine confidence in elections in 2020 depressed turnout among Republicans & cost them the Senate in 2021. If he's intent on the same playbook for 2026, look out.

Colorado voters: Is Front Range Passenger Rail a smart investment or a financial boondoggle? Will it be useful and reliable? Front Range Passenger Rail: The train is fun and cool, like you! It wants to be your friend. Also, there is a cute fox mascot.

Colorado is now the second-most-expensive state to live in, according to @CNBC. And it falls below the national median in areas from infrastructure to business friendliness to education. This is exactly what business leaders have been warning about: tsscolorado.com/colorado-drops…

Bureaucracies act in accordance with incentives presented, so it's unlikely HCPF will improve without structural changes. Read more here: completecolorado.com/2026/07/14/com… @CompleteCO

This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…

A decade ago, New York's governor authorized a ban on fracking. It solved nothing. The state still uses natural gas, it just pays more for it. Today, New York's governor will authorize a ban on data centers. I wonder what will happen! subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews…

It's pretty common for psychiatrists (like AES's wife here) to decline to accept Medicare because the reimbursement rates are relatively low, but remember that Medicare For All works in part by forcing providers to accept lower reimbursement rates! freebeacon.com/democrats/abdu…

Latest LCOE report: Standalone LCOE makes wind and solar look like roughly half the cost of gas, but that number strips out the variable gas gets for 'free' (see below): firm, dispatchable capacity. Price in firming and the gap narrows hard or flips outright, especially once storage gets added. The renewables discount many people quote is real only if the resource doesn't have to match gas on reliability. >Standalone (v19.0): solar $40 to $98/MWh, wind $37 to $99, versus CCGT at $51 to $129. >New-build renewable LCOE also clears marginal cost of existing conventional generation almost everywhere: cheapest wind and solar ($37 to $40) sit above nuclear's marginal-cost ceiling ($36) and near CCGT's ($51), so building new only competes with running what's already there in gas peaking, where existing marginal cost ($52 to $122) still overlaps new-build LCOE. >Firmed across six ISOs: solar $92 to $135, wind $87 to $118, solar plus storage $115 to $167, wind plus storage $103 to $146. Firmed wind sits inside the CCGT band rather than below it. Firmed solar clears the top of that band in ERCOT and PJM. Solar plus storage breaks through gas peaking's own floor of $144 in PJM. >Caveat that cuts the other way: Firming charge is one-sided. It taxes renewables for intermittency but applies no matching charge to CCGT for fuel supply, pipeline, or outage risk, so the true all-in gap, priced symmetrically, is likely narrower than these firmed figures suggest.