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Are Colorado businesses leaving or evacuating? | Jon Caldara

Updated 9 hours ago

At this point, if you hear beeping downtown, it’s not a construction crew. It’s a company backing out. And look, I get it. Businesses relocate...

Additional thoughts on State of the Union address/rally | Cronin and Loevy

Updated 1 day ago

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...

A cynical import Colorado doesn’t need | SONDERMANN

Updated 1 day ago

“But mommy, he started it.” Every parent, definitely those with more than one kid, has heard this instinctively defensive reaction to the point of exhaustion....

Cute puppy overload and an audition of a different kind: Capitol M | Week of Feb. 28, 2026

Updated 1 day ago

The lighter side of the Capitol, and most days, you ought to be really grateful for it. There’s a rumor (jk) floating around that an...

Boulder’s bleak oil-and-gas legal entanglements | Paula Noonan

Updated 4 days ago

How much liberty do you really believe in? | Hal Bidlack

Updated 6 days ago

Dems try to hijack Colorado’s congressional map | Dick Wadhams

Updated 7 days ago

Like Trump nationally, incumbent Colorado Dems lose sight of what matters to everyday people | Miller Hudson

Updated 7 days ago

Colorado farmers fight fires one day, stand in line for ashes the next | Rachel Gabel

Updated 7 days ago

The First Amendment protects the Second | Jon Caldara

Updated 1 week ago

What Gallup polls teach us about presidents | Cronin & Loevy

Updated 1 week ago

One small step for dialing back the partisanship | SONDERMANN

Updated 1 week ago

Will President Trump’s emissions ‘progress’ turn into pollution regression? | Paula Noonan

Updated 2 weeks ago

A crash course in the insanity of American health care costs for the average Coloradan | Hal Bidlack

Updated 2 weeks ago

Rat’s nest of a bill prioritizes rodents over people | Rachel Gabel

Updated 2 weeks ago

Democrat Sens. Lisa Cutter and Cathy Kipp, and Rep. Elizabeth Velasco have introduced a rat’s nest of a bill in SB26-062 Rodenticide Use Restrictions. The...

Why after 70-plus years of readership I won’t renew my Washington Post subscription | Miller Hudson

Updated 2 weeks ago

My brother and I read a lot growing up. Our Dad, a bomb-designing nuclear engineer with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), purchased our first television...

Law enforcement officers shouldn’t wear masks | Jon Caldara

Updated 2 weeks ago

Should police wear masks? Denver’s City Council thinks no — and is even trying to outlaw it for federal agents operating in the city (because...

Michael Bennet and ‘the question’ | SONDERMANN

Updated 2 weeks ago

The train usually runs only one way. The route goes from the state Capitol to Washington, D.C. State legislators become members of Congress; governors become...

A day in the life of the Capitol: Capitol M | Week of Feb. 14, 2026

Updated 2 weeks ago

Colorado judges lean left — just look at the numbers | George Brauchler

Updated 2 weeks ago

‘There will be costs,’ warns Jason Crow after failed indictments for ‘illegal orders’ video | TRAIL MIX

Updated 2 weeks ago

Will Colorado’s Trump-and-Polis-approved education grift-gift continue? | Paula Noonan

Updated 3 weeks ago

Pondering Colorado’s population pivot | Miller Hudson

Updated 3 weeks ago

Hick, much like Trump, harmed rural Colorado | Dick Wadhams

Updated 3 weeks ago

How to handle the national cattle herd at its lowest level in 75 years? | Rachel Gabel

Updated 3 weeks ago

Why U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet won’t be governor of Colorado | Jon Caldara

Updated 3 weeks ago

Capitol M: Olympic version | Week of Feb. 7, 2026

Updated 3 weeks ago

Trump’s critics are not the ones suffering from “derangement” | SONDERMANN

Updated 3 weeks ago

A step in the right direction for Taiwan | Kelly Sloan

Updated 3 weeks ago

Earlier this week, amid the chaos, bustle, tension and constant movement of a legislative session in full swing, a short ceremony took place in the...

Grassroots-backed study an excellent basis for game-changing health care program | Paula Noonan

Updated 4 weeks ago

Nibble here, nibble there. That’s how the federal government and the state have set our nation’s health care policy. President Harry Truman’s effort after World...

Does Colorado have too high of a population? | Hal Bidlack

Updated 4 weeks ago

I think I first fell in love with Colorado back in 1968, when we took a family vacation from Michigan out to Salt Lake City...

Insecticide bill latest example of Colorado pols legislating your plate | Rachel Gabel

Updated 4 weeks ago

“Neonicotinoids” seems to be the word rolling off the tongues of lawmakers this year as the legislative session kicks off. Senate Bill 26-065, concerning limitations...