The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: CPW’s dubious call
In needlessly stiff-arming the public, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is contributing to a heightened sense of skepticism about government in general.
As the Sentinel’s Dennis Webb reported in Saturday’s paper, the agency is refusing to disclose the results of a first year of work removing bears and mountain lions from a part of the Roan Plateau for a study on the effects on mule deer numbers.
That’s disappointing on two levels. The Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission conducted transparent public hearings to arrive at a decision to undergo two science-based predator removal research projects – one on the Roan and another in the Upper Arkansas River Valley.
Colorado, Utah mourn after 3 firefighters killed in wildfires
Nicholas Fogleman
nicholas.fogleman@denvergazette.com
Updated 7 hours ago
Gov. Jared Polis on Sunday mourned the deaths of three firefighters killed while battling a wildfire on the Colorado-Utah border, calling the loss a tragedy for the state and the firefighting community. The firefighters died Saturday while responding to a...
Understanding Trump’s remarkable political comeback in 2024 | Cronin and Loevy
Tom Cronin Bob Loevy
tom-cronin-bob-loevy@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 5 hours ago
President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. He inspired a riot at the U.S. Capitol to try to overthrow the results of that election. He was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives and later was indicted for several...
Heat, wind and drought conditions spark wildfires across US West | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 16 hours ago
Heat, drought spark wildfires Extreme heat and dry, windy conditions fueled several wildfires in the West on June 21, including an uncontained blaze in Utah that forced the evacuation of a small town southwest of Salt Lake City. The Iron...
Crank challenger Jessica Killin signs on to new centrist Democratic group’s ‘Promise to America’
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 13 hours ago
Jessica Killin, one of the Democrats running in Tuesday’s primary for the chance to challenge U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, joined with more than a dozen incumbent Democratic lawmakers and candidates this week signing on to...
Colorado Politics Calendar June 29-July 5
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help 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,...
Gov. Lamm’s GOP challenger gives insights into his campaign | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
Forty-five years ago this week: “I see Gov. (Richard) Lamm is fairly popular in general,” said gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Bill Hughes, R-Colorado Springs. “ … And he’ll be hard to beat.” Hughes was on a whirlwind campaign trail...
Giving credit to Polis where credit is due | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
eric-sondermann@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
It is an understatement to suggest that Gov. Jared Polis has had a tough couple of months. The bloom was already off the rose and Coloradans were paying far more attention to the choice of his replacement than they were...
Bennet, Hickenlooper to vote against Trump’s 10th Circuit nominee from Colorado
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Colorado’s two Democratic senators will not vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee to a vacancy on the Denver-based federal appeals court. Trump has selected U.S. District Court Chief Judge Daniel D. Domenico, who he appointed as a federal trial...
Who’s spending in Colorado to get your vote?
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Groups that raise unlimited amounts of money have spent about $20 million in May and June to try and influence Colorado voters’ choices in the upcoming June 30 primaries. By law, these groups cannot coordinate with the candidates they support....
U.S. government declines to oppose multiple challenges to immigration detention in Colorado
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Multiple federal judges in Colorado granted petitions from people challenging the lawfulness of their immigration detention this week after the government took the unusual step of declining to submit arguments in opposition. Colorado’s federal trial court is facing a flood of...