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Trump reduces size of 2 national monuments in Utah amid public lands revamp | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
The Associated Press
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UTAH Trump shrinks national monuments President Donald Trump on July 13 sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, undoing protections established by his Democratic predecessors on public lands that are sacred among many Native Americans. Bears Ears...
One Republican can save the First Congressional | Jon Caldara
Jon Caldara
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Colorado Republicans once again nominated a statewide candidate who has no chance of winning but has a lock on being a national laughingstock. But though the governor’s race is already over, Republicans in Colorado’s First Congressional District have one last...
What the regionality of Marx’s Republican primary win reveals about Colorado conservatives | Cronin & Loevy
Tom Cronin Bob Loevy
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Running for governor of Colorado, controversial outsider Victor Marx, 61, a self-proclaimed exorcist and a friendly ally to the late Charlie Kirk, pulled out a 39.9% Republican primary victory. State Sen. and Republican establishment candidate Barbara Kirkmeyer came in a...
Will Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ independent streak define his legacy?
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 1 day ago
Sometimes aligned with his party and at other times apart from it, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has spent much of his tenure charting his own course. That independent streak carried through fights over labor policy, rural anger over wolf reintroduction...
Democrats and the siren call of socialism | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
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Updated 4 days ago
The political pendulum continues to swing, though its arc these days seems far more volatile and exaggerated. While there have always been outliers and more extreme actors on the political spectrum, the pendulum for many years was more of a...
Big GOP names address rumors they want to challenge Gov. Lamm | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
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Forty-Five Years Ago This Week: With few Republican candidates announced for the gubernatorial race, the political rumor mill was in full force. Secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development Phil Winn, a former Colorado Republican Party chairman, felt...
Democrat John Hickenlooper hauls in $1.3 million in 2nd quarter in Colorado’s U.S. Senate race
Ernest Luning
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Updated 18 hours ago
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper’s reelection campaign raised just over $1.3 million in the year’s second quarter and finished the period with $2 million in the bank, leaving the first-term Democrat with nearly 80 times as much cash on hand as...
Finding of no discrimination against former Cherry Creek Schools principal upheld
Michael Karlik
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Updated 2 days ago
The Denver-based federal appeals court agreed on Friday that a judge properly resolved a former Cherry Creek School District administrator’s claims of discrimination in the district’s favor based on employees’ “loss of confidence” in her leadership. Linda Maccagnan was a...
What to know before Colorado’s new law on semiautomatic firearms goes into effect
Marissa Ventrelli
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A Colorado law passed in 2025 established new requirements for individuals planning to purchase semiautomatic weapons. Here’s what residents should know before Senate Bill 003 goes into effect on Aug. 1. From a ban to a training course For decades,...
Campaign launched to redirect $1 billion in TABOR refunds to education
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 16 hours ago
A coalition that includes the state teachers’ union on Tuesday launched a campaign for a ballot proposal that would reduce more than $1 billion in taxpayer refunds and spend the money on education. The measure is among several campaigns taking...