WATCH LIVE: Gov. Jared Polis meets with President Trump
Gov. Jared Polis met with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, to lobby for federal help in bailing out Colorado and the West’s coronavirus-battered economy.
The leaders were to speak at a press conference in the Rose Garden after their meeting. Watch the event live from 9News here:
Trump plans to move Forest Service headquarters to Utah, shutter research sites | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
The Associated Press
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Updated 3 days ago
UTAH Forest Service bound for Salt Lake City SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump’s administration will move the U.S. Forest Service headquarters out of the nation’s capital to Salt Lake City as part of an organizational overhaul that involves...
Pastors Scott Bottoms, Victor Marx win spots in Colorado GOP’s gubernatorial primary at party assembly
Ernest Luning
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Updated 8 hours ago
Two pastors from Colorado Springs qualified Saturday for the Republican gubernatorial primary ballot at the Colorado GOP’s state assembly in Pueblo in a party meeting that dragged late into the night. State Rep. Scott Bottoms, who is known as one...
Colorado House finishes work on 2026-27 state budget, finally
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 14 hours ago
The House on Saturday, after four days of work – it usually takes two – finished up their work and voted on the $46.8 billion 2026-27 state budget, as contained in House Bill 1410 and 64 accompanying measures designed to...
Home rule has protected Colorado cities for over 125 years | Cronin and Loevy
Tom Cronin Bob Loevy
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Updated 15 hours ago
Colorado is currently gripped by a political struggle between the governor plus the legislature in Denver and populous home-rule city governments, mainly on the Front Range, such as Colorado Springs. In the past few years, the legislature has been passing bills that applied to city government policies, which...
Colorado Politics calendar Apr. 13-19
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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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,...
Minority Leader Peña argues against oil and gas bill | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 4 days ago
Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: “The Colorado House of Representatives had just given its final approval to House Bill 81-1152, which created $9 million in tax relief to oil and gas companies. But this came “at the expense of local...
A longshot, upset bid and a few quick takes | SONDERMANN
By Eric Sondermann
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Updated 3 days ago
It is hard to keep up these days. The flow of news often seems overwhelming. Let’s focus today on an unusual congressional race before moving on to a few quick, supplementary observations. Since its creation 54 years ago, Congressional District...
An “-“ends tribute in a week full of “odds” | Capitol M | Week of April 11, 2026
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 days ago
The lighter side of the Capitol, usually… The decision to read the budget bill — the long bill, which spans 661 pages this year — put a damper on the House’s already less‑than‑festive mood. So Capitol M decided to catch...
What you need to know about the Colorado legislature reading a 661-page bill aloud
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 14 hours ago
A rarely used procedural move by a Republican legislator threw the Colorado House into an extended slowdown, after she invoked her right to have a nearly 700-page state budget bill read aloud in full. Once Rep. Brandi Bradley, R‑Roxborough Park,...
Literal reading of budget bill complicates Colorado legislators’ plans for GOP assembly
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 20 hours ago
Republican Rep. Brandi Bradley’s decision to force the full reading of the state budget — called the “long bill” for its obvious length — has not only slowed House business to a crawl but also disrupted her colleagues’ plans for...
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Joint Budget Committee Democrats: We can't cut our way out of the shortfall
Colorado just cannot cut its way out of a $3.3 billion shortfall in 2020-21. But that’s the reality facing lawmakers who face the prospect of an unprecedented budget cut, the result of the COVID-19 pandemic and a precipitous decline in state revenues. So the hope is that the federal government will ride to the rescue, […]
Hickenlooper, Romanoff set to face off for first time in online forum
With less than four weeks until primary ballots go out to Colorado voters, Democratic U.S. Senate candidates John Hickenlooper and Andrew Romanoff are planning to take part in an online forum Thursday night, organizers said. The forum, sponsored by the progressive IndivisibleNOCO group, will mark the first time the two candidates have met since the […]