The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Money comes home
The history of Anvil Points is a history of Colorado’s congressional delegation waging a losing battle to loosen a bureaucratic knot that tied up millions in gas-leasing royalties owed to Colorado communities by the federal government.
Even Ken Salazar, who represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate, couldn’t find an administrative solution to pry the money free after he was appointed Interior Secretary.
The future of Colorado water: How the fight over Shoshone water rights affects the Front Range
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 hour ago
A million acre-feet of water in the Colorado River — and the efforts by Western Slope water partners to keep it there — became the subject of a recent two-day hearing that could decide just who gets water and how...
Both sides claim win after chaotic Colorado GOP meeting to decide whether to cancel party’s 2026 primary
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 hours ago
Colorado Republicans voted Saturday to force the state party to cancel next year’s party primary and instead pick GOP nominees via party assemblies, but state party officers say the vote at a chaotic state central committee meeting in Aurora didn’t...
Kent Thiry, please pull your checkbook out again | Eric Sondermann
Eric Sondermann
eric_sondermann@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Business and civic leader Kent Thiry is a complex figure. He built Denver-based DaVita to be a behemoth in the world of kidney care and dialysis. Along the way, he was known for some wild, over-the-top gatherings in the name...
A Look Back: Republican Roemer takes on big name in CD1 against Schroeder; Colorado nursing homes get scathing inspection
Rachael Wright
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: Republican activist Gloria Roemer was running for Colorado’s first Congressional District against incumbent Democratic state Rep. Pat Schroeder, and she came out swinging, labelling Schroeder “a hypocrite” for calling Congress a “coin-op legislature.” “The people...
CO PO Calendar | Sept. 29-Oct. 4
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,...
Appeals court finds Wheat Ridge officer lacked probable cause to arrest defendant
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday concluded a Wheat Ridge officer lacked probable cause to arrest a man because the information suggesting criminal activity was too minimal to act upon. Corporal Jeremy Schmitz was patrolling a truck stop off of Interstate...
By 2-1, appeals court takes no issue with constitutional violation from defendant’s absence at hearing
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Colorado’s second-highest court, by a 2-1 vote, concluded that an Adams County judge’s order granting crime victim restitution was valid, even though the defendant was absent from a hearing which he had a constitutional right to attend. The U.S. and...
Colorado man released under competency law arrested again with gun on college campus
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
A man at the center of a growing debate around Colorado’s competency laws has been arrested less than a month after he was released from jail following the dismissal of an attempted murder charge. Ephraim Debisa, 21, who has also...
Denver budget woes spotlight shift in Johnston’s homelessness campaign
Deborah Smith
deborah.smith@denvergazette.com
Updated 2 days ago
The city’s budget woes have triggered shifts in the future of Mayor Mike Johnston’s campaign to eliminate homelessness in Denver. After a week-long series of budget hearings, city officials now have a clearer picture of how Denver plans to address...
Colorado governor seeks FEMA aid for wildfire recovery
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Gov. Jared Polis has formally requested that President Donald Trump and FEMA issue a Major Disaster Declaration to unlock funding to support Colorado’s response to the Elk and Lee fires in Rio Blanco County. “The Elk and Lee fires ripped...
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The Pueblo Chieftain: An open wound for Pueblo
There’s no way to sugarcoat this: St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center’s recently announced restructuring plans are going to cause a lot of pain in our community. It’s been a little over a week since the South Side hospital went public with plans to cut about 40 percent of its workforce and reduce or eliminate key services. […]
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner readies his keynote for USS Colorado ceremony Saturday
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner will deliver the keynote address when the USS Colorado submarine is commissioned Saturday at the Naval Submarine Base in Connecticut. The Republican senator from Yuma is expected to talk about the submarine’s role in service to the nation and to express his pride in his home state’s namesake vessel. “The USS […]