The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial: City Council should approve more open carry – of liquor – in Colorado Springs
When Colorado Springs Councilwoman Jill Gaebler talks open carry, she doesn’t mean wearing a fashionable Glock 19.
She wants to appease the Colorado Springs Downtown Partnership’s request for a law allowing open carry of alcohol on select city sidewalks during special events.
It sounds like old west Dodge City, with drunkards urinating on fire hydrants and starting brawls in the streets.
But that is not what Gaebler and the partnership have in mind.
Congressional leaders leave White House meeting without deal to avoid government shutdown
Mary Clare Jalonick
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Updated 6 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A government shutdown fast approaching, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left a White House meeting with President Donald Trump Monday afternoon showing no sign of compromising from their entrenched positions in order to avoid a lapse in...
Colorado justices, 5-2, conclude prior version of ‘3 strikes’ law satisfied Constitution
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
The state’s highest court ruled on Monday that the version of Colorado’s “three strikes” law that was in effect before this year was constitutionally compliant, notwithstanding a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that prompted the legislature to change how defendants...
Federal judge dismisses challenge to prison policy forbidding assistance with certain legal claims
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 6 hours ago
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a formerly incarcerated man’s challenge to Colorado’s prison policy that forbids the use of library resources for the pursuit of certain claims generally deemed frivolous. Robert Wayne Robinson sued the law librarian at the...
A voice trying to pull us back from the brink | Vince Bzdek
Vince Bzdek
vince.bzdek@gazette.com
Updated 7 hours ago
By Vince Bzdek Two weeks after Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah, it’s worth noting what didn’t happen, especially in Utah. “I want you to look at how Utahans reacted,” Republican Gov. Spencer Cox said after the suspect was caught....
Study: USDA relocation to Fort Collins to boost jobs, local economy
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 5 hours ago
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s planned relocation of up to 2,600 employees to Fort Collins could bring more than $1 billion in new business output and over 6,000 new jobs to the area by the end of next year, according...
Colorado delegation seeks federal aid for wildfire-ravaged Rio Blanco County
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 5 hours ago
Colorado’s 10 U.S. senators and representatives sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday, asking him to declare a disaster following pair of wildfires that burned in the northwestern part of the state last month. Under the Stafford Act of 1988,...
Nallapati tapped as Denver’s first Chief AI & Information Officer
Deborah Smith
deborah.smith@denvergazette.com
Updated 7 hours ago
Suma Nallapat, Denver’s chief information officer, is about to take on an expanded role for the city as its new Chief AI and Information Officer (CAIO) for the City and County of Denver. Mayor Mike Johnston made the announcement on...
Chief justice talks about threats, appeals judge seeks ruling on reasonable doubt | COURT CRAWL
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 9 hours ago
Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. Colorado’s chief justice spoke about the threats the state Supreme Court received in the wake of a high-profile decision two years ago, and one appellate...
The future of Colorado water: How the fight over Shoshone water rights affects the Front Range
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 7 hours ago
A million acre-feet of water in the Colorado River — and the efforts by Western Slope water partners to keep it there — became the subject of a recent two-day hearing that could decide just who gets water and how...
Both sides claim win after chaotic Colorado GOP meeting to decide whether to cancel party’s 2026 primary
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 10 hours ago
Colorado Republicans voted Saturday to force the state party to cancel next year’s party primary and instead pick GOP nominees via party assemblies, but state party officers say the vote at a chaotic state central committee meeting in Aurora didn’t...