Steamboat Today: A creative approach to West Lincoln Park
Instead of spending $150,000 to rehabilitate the lightly used and unsafe playground structure known as the Yampa River Queen in West Lincoln Park, it is time to move forward to build an artistic park shelter in the midst of the mineral springs that set the community of Steamboat apart.
We add our support to the unanimous endorsement by the city’s parks and recreation commission of a plan to replace the more than 30-year-old Yampa River Queen with a combination of new interactive playground amenities and a shaded ranch shed-like structure that showcases Steamboat’s western heritage.
While we empathize with community members who feel a sentimental connection to the old Yampa River Queen, we don’t believe it has ever been a particularly popular playground structure.
Colorado’s federal judges maintain approach to immigration detentions while escalating warnings
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 6 hours ago
Colorado’s federal judges are maintaining their view that the government’s assertion of broad immigration detention authority is unlawful, casting aside a recent appellate decision to the contrary as “unpersuasive” and out of step with the predominant interpretation by the judiciary....
In a meeting Colorado GOP chair Brita Horn calls ‘illegal,’ Republicans vote to demand her resignation
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 7 hours ago
Roughly half the membership of the Colorado Republican Party’s state central committee on Saturday voted overwhelmingly to approve a resolution expressing “no confidence” in state GOP Chairman Brita Horn’s leadership and calling for her immediate resignation in an online meeting...
Colorado Medicaid probe uncovers millions of dollars in alleged transport fraud ring
Nico Brambila
nico.brambila@denvergazette.com
Updated 11 hours ago
Colorado Medicaid officials detected $25 million in abnormal billing over just four months two years ago — a surge that prompted a new state law and the suspension of dozens of providers in what authorities now describe as an organized...
One small step for dialing back the partisanship | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
eric-sondermann@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 days ago
Much ink, including a good deal of my own, has been spilled on the excesses of super-charged, toxic partisanship in this current era. Except for true believers along with those who profit from this all-consuming poison, there is broad agreement...
Greeley voters to decide fate of project that includes minor league hockey arena
Hap Fry, Special to The Gazette
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Updated 12 hours ago
GREELEY • The fate of the Cascadia development — and quite possibly the future direction of the city — is in the hands of Greeley voters this Tuesday during a special city election on whether the landscape-altering project should be...
Colorado Politics Calendar Feb. 23-Mar. 1
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 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,...
Meeker rancher leads one of Colorado’s earliest attempts to transfer federal lands | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 3 days ago
Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: Former state Rep. Nick Theos, R-Meeker, was one of several people testifying before the Senate Agriculture Committee on Senate Bill 81-170, which would transfer ownership of public lands from the federal government to state control....
Democrats Michael Bennet, Phil Weiser make their cases to be Colorado’s next governor ahead of primary
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Nearly eight months before ballots will be counted in Colorado’s race for the its open gubernatorial seat, voters are lining up behind two of the state’s leading Democrats, who are facing off in a primary that will likely determine which...
Colorado GOP officers set competing meetings to hold ‘no-confidence’ votes on state chair Brita Horn
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Once again, members of the Colorado Republican Party’s central committee have scheduled separate, competing meetings to consider whether the state GOP’s governing body supports its chair, but this time neither meeting will be held under a bridge. State GOP Chair...
Colorado Democratic candidate submitted 1,600 signatures — only 29 were valid
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 7 hours ago
When he turned in some 1,600 signatures last month, Eric Nelson said it demonstrated “strong grassroots support from voters” across the district and a “growing momentum” for his “inclusive, community-centered leadership.” On Thursday, the Secretary of State rejected Nelson’s petition...
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