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Colorado GOP plays with fire as primary approaches | Dick Wadhams
Dick Wadhams
dick-wadhams@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Over the next several weeks, the Colorado Republican Party will make consequential decisions that will determine just how relevant it will be in 2026 and beyond. The 600-member Colorado Republican State Central Committee will meet on May 30 to elect...
Public Lands Rule rescinding keeps public lands in public hands | Rachel Gabel
Rachel Gabel
rachel-gabel@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
The Public Lands Rule has been rescinded. The rule, first proposed in 2023, would have complicated the balanced partnership between federal agencies and all multiple uses on those public lands. In 2024, the Bureau of Land Management made the rule...
America wrestles with its ‘Leaving MAGA’ phase | Miller Hudson
Miller Hudson
miller-hudson@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
For those Americans who glance at President Donald Trump and only see a raving lunatic, little is more confounding than the millions of MAGA adherents who discern a force for good. Reconciling these differing viewpoints feels nearly impossible. Dismissing this...
Questions for Mike and Phil | Jon Caldara
Jon Caldara
jon-caldara@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 days ago
If you’re a fan of the old Seinfeld TV show, you might remember the fat postman, Newman, being asked why postal workers “go postal”? “Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming! There’s never a...
Development fees not limited to brand new construction, Colorado court rules
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last month that local governments’ ability to impose fees on “new development” is not limited solely to construction projects that occur on empty land. Under state law, local governments that issue development permits are empowered to...
Colorado justices consider whether fraud claims belong in corporate dispute
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
The Colorado Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether it is possible for a corporate plaintiff to pursue fraud claims over conduct that could be covered by a contract or by a set of interrelated business agreements leading up to the...
State legislator seeks to criminalize display of sexually explicit material to children | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 5 days ago
by Rachael Wright Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: Legislation sponsored by Rep. Bev Scherling, R-Aurora, sought to prohibit sexually explicit material from being distributed to minors. Scherling’s House Bill 81-1310 stated that the “sale, loan, or display to persons under...
Colorado Politics Calendar May 18-24
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 5 days ago
CoPo’s weekly political calendar helps you find political and public policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances,...
Colorado county Republican chair arrested in sting on allegations he tried to pay for sex with a child
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Hunter Rivera, the 24-year-old chairman of the Weld County Republican Party, was one of two men arrested Thursday on suspicion of trying to buy sex from Larimer County Sheriff’s Office investigators who posed as minors as part of an operation...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis grants clemency to Tina Peters, makes her eligible for release from prison
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 days ago
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday granted clemency to Tina Peters and made the former Republican county clerk eligible for release from state prison as soon as early June, capping months of speculation that the Democratic governor would shorten a...