The Denver Post: Scouts overreact in kicking out a Cub for pointed questions
Surprising news that a Broomfield Cub Scout has been kicked out of his den after he asked pointed questions of state Sen. Vicki Marble is troubling indeed. Certainly, exiling the fifth grader from his peers strikes us as an unnecessary and hurtful overreaction.
The story is difficult to comprehend, in part because of the radio silence coming out of the local scouting office over the boy’s dismissal. But the guts of it despair.
Last week, Broomfield Boy Scouts invited Marble, a polarizing Republican from Fort Collins, to speak. According to Lori Mayfield, mother of the dismissed boy Ames, the event came with an assignment as part of the Scouts’ educational mission. Scouts were to read or watch news stories about Marble and form questions for her. Ames, a gifted and talented student with a passion for politics and news, came with a list.
Who has the power to declare war? | Cronin and Loevy
Tom Cronin Bob Loevy
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Updated 25 minutes ago
Our constitutional framers boldly and ambitiously granted Congress the power to declare war yet granted the executive the responsibility, after war is declared, to supervise war as the commander-in-chief. That worked well until the Cold War began. The U.S. has been...
Latest death brings down wolves’ survival rate to 44% in Colorado
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 4 hours ago
The female wolf of the mating pair for the King Mountain pack has died, bringing total fatalities to 14 out of the 25 animals reintroduced in Colorado. The wolf, identified as No. 2310, was among the 10 wolves brought to...
The delicate, ever-changing dance between politics and religion | SONDERMANN
By Eric Sondermann
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Updated 3 hours ago
The dance, really a marathon that brings to mind the classic movie “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, has been going on as long as there have been governments and organized religion. That is to say that this delicate tango has...
Roasts, get yer roasts, here: Capitol M | Week of March 14, 2026
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 3 days ago
The lighter side of the Capitol, especially in the past week Apparently, the pending and eventual switch to daylight stupid time has put people in some pretty funny moods. And thank goodness! On March 4, the Senate approved the appointments...
Polly Baca elected to DNC | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 3 days ago
Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: After her loss to Republican U.S. Rep. Hank Brown the previous year in the race for the 4th Congressional District, state. Sen Polly Baca-Barragan, D-Thortnon, was elected as one of the three vice-chairs of the...
Colorado Politics Calendar Mar. 16-22
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 3 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,...
Boebert challenger Eileen Laubacher joins lawsuit aimed at blocking her from Democratic assembly
Ernest Luning
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Updated 20 hours ago
A Denver District Court judge on Thursday permitted Democratic congressional candidate Eileen Laubacher to join a lawsuit filed by one of her primary opponents seeking to prevent Laubacher from participating in the party’s assembly process in a bid to qualify...
House Ethics Committee to begin hearing on Weinberg complaint
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 1 day ago
The House Ethics Committee on Tuesday will begin a hearing requested by Rep. Ron Weinberg, R-Loveland, tied to an ethics complaint filed against him by Rep. Brandi Bradley, R-Roxborough Park. The ethics committee had found probable cause on two issues...
Iran war enters next phase of destroying entire missile supply chain: Hegseth
Brady Knox, Washington Examiner
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Updated 1 day ago
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the war with Iran was entering a new phase, as the United States was focusing on destroying Tehran’s defense industrial base. At a Friday Pentagon briefing, Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint...
Jeffco Public Schools found in violation of Title IX
Sage Kelley
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Updated 22 hours ago
Civil rights office: Male students occupy 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday that the Jeffco Public Schools district violated Title IX by permitting male students to access female bathrooms and compete in...
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The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Support Issue 1A
Supporting the proposed sales tax hike to fund public safety should be an easy call for most voters. Crime is on the rise in Mesa County, but budgets for the Sheriff’s Office and the District Attorney’s Office have been slashed to the bone. Issue 1A will increase county sales tax by only 37 cents on […]
Senate leaders say Ray Scott violated no rules by blocking critics on social media
Ray Scott won’t face an ethics rebuke from his fellow senators, after Republican and Democratic leadership said his social media accounts are his business. Scott, a Republican from Grand Junction, received complaints from three Grand Valley residents because he blocked them from posting on his social media accounts, including Facebook, Charles Ashby of the Grand […]