If there is one word that sums up Colorado government today, it is change.
Every department has a new executive director.
There are new faces in the Governor's Office and in the legislative leadership. Those great populist tools of democracy, the referendum and initiative, regularly supply us with new parameters in which state government must operate. But I believe the change goes deeper than the political leadership. Every day for more than a decade we've opened our morning newspapers to stories of another corporate restructuring or re-engineering. At the time, these changes often seemed painful.