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Colorado Republicans will have to live with the consequences of their candidate of choice | Miller Hudson
11+ hour, 22+ min ago (1116+ words) Colorado Politics Colorado Republicans will have to live with the consequences of their candidate of choice | Miller Hudson Two surprising election results this year in Colorado and Maine’s 2026 primaries compel us to examine the role of voters. It’s usually regarded…...
Colorado Commission prioritizes feelings over science | Rachel Gabel
11+ hour, 41+ min ago (608+ words) The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission voted Thursday and prioritized feelings over science-based management. Meanwhile, Rancher X is the beneficiary of those feelings-driven decisions. Well played, Governor. The newest appointees to the CPW Commission are just the parting gift you…...
Big GOP names address rumors they want to challenge Gov. Lamm | A LOOK BACK
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (813+ words) Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: With few Republican candidates announced for the gubernatorial race, the political rumor mill was in full force. Secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development Phil Winn, a former Colorado Republican Party chairman, felt…...
Democrats and the siren call of socialism | SONDERMANN
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (991+ words) The political pendulum continues to swing, though its arc these days seems far more volatile and exaggerated. While there have always been outliers and more extreme actors on the political spectrum, the pendulum for many years was more of a…...
Will Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ independent streak define his legacy?
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1692+ words) Sometimes aligned with his party and at other times apart from it, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has spent much of his tenure charting his own course. That independent streak carried through fights over labor policy, rural anger over wolf reintroduction…...
Campaign launched to redirect $1 billion in TABOR refunds to education
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (681+ words) A coalition that includes the teachers’ union on Tuesday launched a campaign for a ballot proposal that would reduce more than $1 billion in taxpayer refunds and spend the money on education. Referred to the ballot by the state legislature via…...
Energy security starts at home | GUEST COLUMN
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (409+ words) With Colorado’s legislative session behind us and a new group of lawmakers preparing to take office next year, now is a good time to step back and consider a broader question: What role should Colorado play in America’s energy future?...
The fight should be against corporate power, not local news | GUEST COLUMN
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (350+ words) Having practised competition and antitrust law for much of my professional career, I have litigated these issues, studied the doctrine, and watched competition policy evolve across two legal systems. It is from that perspective I offer a different view of…...
Colorado governor says he doesn’t want socialists to ‘destroy’ state
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (257+ words) The ideological divide within the Colorado Democratic Party once more burst into the open on Wednesday when Gov. Jared Polis responded to a legislator’s criticism by referencing Zimbabwe’s socialist experiment. Polis was responding to Rep. Yara Zokaie, D-Fort Collins, who…...
Colorado’s primary proved in this political climate money doesn’t buy electoral happiness | Paula Noonan
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (582+ words) To catch you up, campaign committees from this 2026 election cycle already collected and shoveled out a lot of cash: $102.64 million. That’s contributions in all forms — dollars, in kind, loans, etc. — from December 2024 to now. Total expenditures just for advertising amount…...