The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Sirko’s moves offer hope for a fresh start
Funny how the teaching business has afforded so many hard lessons to School District 51.
Alas, it’s no laughing matter. The district is running out of chances to regain the public’s trust. Hopefully, this latest commitment to do so will stick. It has to. The district is now in accountability-or-bust territory.
Reflections on Weiser-Lopez, Crank-Killian debates | Tom Cronin
Tom Cronin
tom-cronin@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Thursday night, The Gazette and KOAA TV hosted two important candidate debates. The first featured incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank, who is just completing his first term representing El Paso County in Congress, and Jessica Killian, a Democrat who has...
What courageous citizenship really looks like | Vince Bzdek
Vince Bzdek
vince.bzdek@gazette.com
Updated 13 hours ago
By Vince Bzdek What exactly is courage? Ernest Hemingway famously called it grace under pressure. Mark Twain wrote that “courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.” C.S. Lewis refined that even more: “Courage is...
The coming election and mischief in the making | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
eric-sondermann@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 days ago
America’s tribalism is such these days that we struggle to even agree on the basic rules. Elections have always been hotly contested. As the saying goes, “Politics ain’t beanbag.” The process has long involved elements of nastiness and underhanded conduct....
Tancredo in Running for Dept. of Ed. Position | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 4 days ago
Forty-five years ago this week: “I know that my name has been placed before the Secretary of Education, and I know that I’m one of three or four being considered for the Department of Education’s Region 8,” said state Rep....
Colorado Politics Calendar Aug. 31-Sept. 6
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 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,...
Colorado measure adding ID checks to mail-in voting qualifies for ballot
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
A ballot initiative that would require voters to include additional information on mail-in ballots has qualified for the November election, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. Backed by El Paso County Treasurer Chuck Broerman and former Deputy Secretary of...
Colorado election website error exposes personal data of confidential voters
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
A system update accidentally lifted protections on confidential records in Colorado, exposing dozens of voters’ personal information, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. The limit that normally blocks access to confidential voter profiles was inadvertently disabled during an update...
PUC adds weekly comment after killing private talks
Scott Weiser
scott.weiser@gazette.com
Updated 1 day ago
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission will take public comment at the start of every commissioner’s weekly meeting beginning Sept. 9 as part of its new transparency mandate, the commission announced, expanding a slot previously limited to the second Wednesday of...
10th Circuit overturns framework for sentencing probation violators by 11-1
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 12 hours ago
In a rare decision by all 12 of its full-time judges, the Denver-based federal appeals court ruled in a lopsided vote on Friday that one of its members created a sentencing process for probation violators that was out of step...
Federal judge dismisses excessive force lawsuit against Colorado Springs, officer
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 16 hours ago
A federal judge concluded last week that a Colorado Springs police officer could not be held liable for shooting a suspect three times after the man menaced two victims with a gun and fled the scene. Al’morion Germany was involved...