#Retweet: The legislative special session yields the week’s best tweets
Business leaders see ‘cracks’ in Colorado, while governor insists state is ‘competitive’
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
How does Colorado get back to the climate in the early 2000s, when there was collaboration between state government, companies and colleges and universities? That was the question posed to Gov. Jared Polis and a panel convened Tuesday by the...
Gala’s purpose: to raise funds to protect Colorado’s open lands | NONPROFIT REGISTER
Joanne Davidson Special to Colorado Politics
joanne-davidson-special-to-colorado-politics@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 6 hours ago
COLORADO OPEN LANDS Lakewood News: Wendell Fleming perhaps said it best in her explanation of the “why” behind the Lakewood-based nonprofit, Colorado Open Lands: “It’s not enough to just love this state … we have to preserve it. We have to preserve it not just for us, but for the...
What didn’t pass: A look at the Colorado bills that died in the 2026 legislative session
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 7 hours ago
Colorado’s legislative session ended with some imbalance: while lawmakers managed to pass about 120 bills, more than 150 others collapsed along the way, undone by political disagreements, budget pressures, or simple lack of time before adjournment on May 13. The...
DJ Summers dives into the costlier state of Colorado | The OpEdge Podcast
Tony Olivero
tony.olivero@gazette.com
Updated 8 hours ago
Common Sense Institute’s Director of Communications & Research Operations DJ Summers dives deep with The OpEdge Podcast host and investigative columnist Jimmy Sengenberger regarding Colorado’s drop in the institute’s Free Enterprise Competitive Index. Summers shares shrewd insights regarding Colorado’s curious,...
Appeals court overturns convictions after judge improperly accepted facts as undisputed
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 48 minutes ago
Colorado’s second-highest court reversed a defendant’s convictions and 12-year prison sentence earlier this month after an El Paso County judge did not require prosecutors to prove key facts that were subject to dispute after all. Prosecutors charged Noel Lavertt King...
Colorado Democrats launch petition to censure Gov. Jared Polis for releasing Tina Peters
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 hours ago
Hundreds of Democrats, including party officials and current and former legislators, have signed a petition urging their party to formally censure Gov. Jared Polis over his decision to grant clemency to Tina Peters. The governor’s decision means Peters, the former...
WHO worries about outbreak’s scale and speed of Ebola spread as Congo announces 134 deaths
Jean-yves Kamale
jean-yves.kamale@associatedpress.com
Updated 11 hours ago
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The World Health Organization director-general openly worried Tuesday over the “scale and speed” of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo, where authorities reported a sharp increase in suspected deaths — to...
Moore urges Democrats to ‘move on’ from 2024, calls DNC autopsy report ‘part of the problem’
Molly Parks, Washington Examiner
molly.parks.washington.examiner@gazetteedit.wpenginepowered.com
Updated 7 hours ago
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) is telling Democrats to “move on” from the 2024 presidential election, chiming in that he does not care whether or not the Democratic National Committee releases the contentious autopsy of the election loss. “My point is...
Democrat John Hickenlooper launches 1st ad in Colorado’s US Senate primary
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 9 hours ago
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper hits screens Tuesday with his reelection campaign’s first statewide ad, recounting highlights of the Colorado Democrat’s business and political career. The 30-second spot, set to air on digital and streaming platforms, lands six weeks before the...
Sorry, Governor — you are wrong on this one | Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack
hal-bidlack@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
If you have read even a handful of my several hundred columns during the past few years, you likely ran across me saying nice things about Gov. Jared Polis. I genuinely like the guy, whom I met during our mutual...