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Colorado Ed Department Must Up Its Competence to prevent waste, fraud, abuse | Paula Noonan
Paula Noonan
paula-noonan@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
The Colorado Department of Education let $24 million fly from its checking accounts from January 2017 through June 2026 to CHE, aka Colorado Homeschool Enrichment. The details show how easily CHE and Education Re-Envisioned BOCES re-envisioned how to convert public...
Remember the injustice of forced unionism
Colorado Politics
colorado-politics@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
By Mark Mix This Labor Day we celebrated the men and women whose hard work keeps the country running. But in Colorado, many of those same workers face a real threat: pay union dues or lose their job. That’s because...
Should we always blame voters for low civic participation in elections? | GUEST COLUMN
Roland Halpern
roland-halpern@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
This year, like every election cycle, we hear the same complaints — enough citizens don’t vote. Voter turnout is too low. People are disengaged. Citizens are shirking their civic responsibility. If only voters cared more, democracy would work better. Fair...
Federal judge directs plaintiff to revise complaint alleging Denver officers’ constitutional violations
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 8 hours ago
A federal judge directed a plaintiff to revise his allegations on Wednesday to more precisely state what two Denver officers and the city itself allegedly did to violate his constitutional rights by facilitating his prosecution for murder until prosecutors dropped...
Federal judge explores new sanctions against ex-Colorado judicial discipline director
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 12 hours ago
A federal judge on Wednesday directed Colorado’s former judicial discipline director, for the third time this year, to explain why she should not sanction him for his latest conduct in his litigation against the state’s judiciary. Christopher S.P. Gregory, who served...
Colorado joins lawsuit challenging changes to Endangered Species Act
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 hours ago
Colorado once more joined a coalition of states challenging the Trump administration — this time on proposed rules regarding the Endangered Species Act. The pair of lawsuits challenge new rules made under Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who earlier said the...
Boebert challenger Eileen Laubacher says she’ll ‘break through the noise’ in Democrat’s 1st TV ad
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 8 hours ago
Democratic congressional candidate Eileen Laubacher says she’ll take a different approach than her opponent in a campaign ad released Wednesday that opens with a cacophonous series of videos featuring Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert. “Eileen’s had enough of the noise...
Colorado congressman asks DOJ to investigate violent student ICE walkout
Nico Brambila
nico.brambila@denvergazette.com
Updated 11 hours ago
U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank is asking the Justice Department to investigate violence at last week’s anti-ICE student walkout in Denver, including whether outside organizations helped organize, fund, or influence the demonstration. Crank sent a letter Tuesday requesting the investigation to...
General election season is here. Where does mail-in voting stand?
David Zimmermann
david-zimmermann@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 14 hours ago
As the general election season approaches, the legal question surrounding the new U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot requirements remains up in the air. With the case playing out in the courts, mail-in voting has not been changed substantially despite President...
Lori Gimelshteyn on 3 ballot measures to ‘let kids be kids’ | The OpEdge Podcast
Tony Olivero
tony.olivero@gazette.com
Updated 15 hours ago
Lori Gimelshteyn — board member of Protect Kids Colorado and executive director of the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network — joins The OpEdge to discuss three measures headed to Colorado voters this November. Gimelshteyn tells host and investigative columnist Jimmy Sengenberger...