COPO’S BEST OF THE WEEK | Recipes for better schools; shouting over shutdown
Here’s our recap of our best stories of the week from the Colorado Politics staff.
> COVER STORY | Which way to better Colorado schools?
> Bennet tears into Ted Cruz over shutdown in fiery speech on Senate floor (VIDEOS)
> Bennet takedown of Ted Cruz’s ‘crocodile tears’ goes viral, sparks 2020 buzz
> TRAIL MIX | Beto goes on the road – a lonely, crowded road
> Q&A with Ben Lindquist | Moving Colorado’s schools beyond ‘sameness’
> INSIGHTS | Colorado college funding doesn’t make the grade
> Hickenlooper heads to Iowa as presidential decision nears (VIDEO)
> Cory Gardner votes for Dems’ proposal to reopen government and GOP plan
> Bill to link Colo.’s presidential choice to national vote heading to Senate floor
> Colorado House committee shoots down trio of gun bills
> Bill restricting Colorado cellphone use while driving is on hold
> Colorado House panel OKs bill to treat autism with medical marijuana
> Fight over bid to strip school-choice provision from foster-kids bus law
> Safe-haven bill on newborns gets new life from Colorado Senate ‘kill’ committee
> Anti-legal-pot group reports marijuana-industry contributions to Colorado lawmakers
> Charter school laws: Where does Colorado rank?
> Ex-Colorado city official accused of hurling knives at husband
> Is Neguse-backed ‘Green New Deal’ for real?
> Colorado Rising lawsuit challenges ‘forced pooling’
> Colorado Springs puts high-dollar settlements in public spotlight
> Polis sets up health-costs office; talks Denver teacher strike
> Colorado subject of ‘BlacKkKlansman’ thrilled by Oscar nominations
> Report: Public lands key in midterm election races in Colorado
Latest death brings down wolves’ survival rate to 44% in Colorado
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 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...
Who has the power to declare war?
Tom Cronin Bob Loevy
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Updated 18 hours 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...
The delicate, ever-changing dance between politics and religion | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann for Colorado Politics
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Updated 2 days 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
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
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...
Colorado Politics Calendar Mar. 16-22
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
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,...
Polly Baca elected to DNC | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
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...
Boebert challenger Eileen Laubacher joins lawsuit aimed at blocking her from Democratic assembly
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 17 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...
Colorado justices weigh fairness concerns after defendant prevailed despite ghosting case
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 20 hours ago
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court struggled on Tuesday to balance the need for one defendant to shield itself against a plaintiff’s claim that its employee sexually assaulted her child, and the fact that the employee legally admitted the allegations...
House Ethics Committee to begin hearing on Weinberg complaint
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 23 hours 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...