#RETWEET: Who had the best tweets in Colorado politics this week?
Colorado’s commie election | CALDARA
Jon Caldara
jon-caldara@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 18 hours ago
If you’re a fan of limited government, personal liberty, or educational choice, Tuesday night’s election results were a downer, just another one in a long line of depressing elections that has made Colorado more California than California. However, if you...
The affordability election redux | CRONIN & LOEVY
Tom Cronin Bob Loevy
tom-cronin-bob-loevy@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 18 hours ago
Pollsters and strategists in 2024 told Donald Trump inflation and cost of living were two of the best issues to campaign on in the 2024 presidential election. Not surprisingly, he promised to lower the price of groceries and make things...
Calendar Nov. 10-16
Rachael Wright
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
MONDAY, NOV. 10 TUESDAY, NOV. 11 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12 THURSDAY, NOV. 13 FRIDAY, NOV. 14 SATURDAY, NOV. 15 SUNDAY, NOV. 16
Federal highway funding bill forces Colorado to strengthen DUI laws; Bennet wins state’s most expensive election | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: “Coloradans are being held hostage with our own tax dollars,” state Senate President Ray Powers, R-Colorado Springs, wrote in a guest editorial published in the The Colorado Statesman. Powers called the federal government “relentless in...
Aurora’s new councilmembers to focus on consent decree, decorum, public comment
Kyla Pearce
kyla.pearce@gazette.com
Updated 1 day ago
Aurora’s five new councilmembers-elect on Friday discussed policing and the consent decree, decorum among members and public comment. The five new members, all progressive candidates, shifted Aurora’s previously seven-to-three conservative majority to a six-to-four progressive majority. While votes are still...
Appeals court reverses Fremont County judge’s sanction on DA’s office over evidence misunderstanding
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday that a Fremont County judge was wrong to reduce the severity of a criminal charge because she believed the district attorney’s office failed to turn over police reports that, in reality, did not exist....
Republicans swat down Democratic offer to end shutdown as impasse continues into 38th day
Mary Clare Jalonick
mary-clare-jalonick@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into...
Tensions flare in Adams 14 as school board member films speakers during public comment
Nico Brambila
nico.brambila@denvergazette.com
Updated 12 hours ago
As Nicholas Hernandez approached the podium to speak during public comment, Adams 14 School Board Director Luz “Lucy” Molina-Aguayo pulled out her cellphone and began filming. She did the same when others spoke during an Oct. 21 meeting, including former...
Judicial discipline changes moving at a slow pace
David Migoya
david.migoya@gazette.com
Updated 1 day ago
Colorado’s judicial system is barely closer to fixing what some have called a broken process of disciplining judges a year after voters approved a new method of dealing with the issue and eight months after revelations the state fosters a...
Trump accuses foreign-owned meat packers of inflating US beef prices and calls for investigation
Darlene Superville
darlene.superville@associatedpress.com
Updated 2 days ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday accused foreign-owned meat packers of driving up the price of beef in the U.S. and asked the Department of Justice to open an investigation. The Republican president announced the move on social media days after...