RIVER TOWNS | Series examines life along Colorado’s rivers
In the arid West, water means life. Turn on your tap, and you’re part of the Colorado circulatory system. The towns born along the banks of Colorado’s most iconic waterways – the Colorado, the Big Thompson and the Arkansas lead a list of 158 named rivers – live the same way yet differently along the banks.
The staff of Colorado Politics with the journalists of the Denver and Colorado Springs Gazettes are fanning out this summer to tell the story of a state as reflected in its water, its people and its future, with the past as prologue.
Come along all summer long to learn more about the people and places that make us all a little bit more Coloradan.
Heat, wind and drought conditions spark wildfires across US West | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
Heat, drought spark wildfires Extreme heat and dry, windy conditions fueled several wildfires in the West on June 21, including an uncontained blaze in Utah that forced the evacuation of a small town southwest of Salt Lake City. The Iron...
Crank challenger Jessica Killin signs on to new centrist Democratic group’s ‘Promise to America’
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 hours ago
Jessica Killin, one of the Democrats running in Tuesday’s primary for the chance to challenge U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, joined with more than a dozen incumbent Democratic lawmakers and candidates this week signing on to...
Colorado Politics Calendar June 29-July 5
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,...
Gov. Lamm’s GOP challenger gives insights into his campaign | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
Forty-five years ago this week: “I see Gov. (Richard) Lamm is fairly popular in general,” said gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Bill Hughes, R-Colorado Springs. “ … And he’ll be hard to beat.” Hughes was on a whirlwind campaign trail...
Giving credit to Polis where credit is due | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
eric-sondermann@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
It is an understatement to suggest that Gov. Jared Polis has had a tough couple of months. The bloom was already off the rose and Coloradans were paying far more attention to the choice of his replacement than they were...
Bennet, Hickenlooper to vote against Trump’s 10th Circuit nominee from Colorado
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 22 hours ago
Colorado’s two Democratic senators will not vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee to a vacancy on the Denver-based federal appeals court. Trump has selected U.S. District Court Chief Judge Daniel D. Domenico, who he appointed as a federal trial...
Who’s spending in Colorado to get your vote?
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 22 hours ago
Groups that raise unlimited amounts of money have spent about $20 million in May and June to try and influence Colorado voters’ choices in the upcoming June 30 primaries. By law, these groups cannot coordinate with the candidates they support....
U.S. government declines to oppose multiple challenges to immigration detention in Colorado
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Multiple federal judges in Colorado granted petitions from people challenging the lawfulness of their immigration detention this week after the government took the unusual step of declining to submit arguments in opposition. Colorado’s federal trial court is facing a flood of...
Tina Peters tells supporters to ‘stand up and fight back’ at Castle Rock event
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk recently released from prison, warned supporters that what happened to her could happen to them, too, if they did not “stand up and fight back” at an event at the Douglas County Fairgrounds....
Iran strikes cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz, endangering Trump’s peace
Christian Datoc
christian-datoc@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Iran attacked a cargo ship traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, possibly upending President Donald Trump‘s diplomatic end to the war with Iran. A U.S. official confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “struck...
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TRAIL MIX | In Colorado, count on fields swelling for open US House seats
By the end of the year the outline of Colorado’s newest congressional district – the state’s 8th CD – should be finalized, and by next July the major party candidates for the seat will have been chosen in what could be barnburner primaries. While the state’s independent redistricting commission has relatively free rein when it […]
Man asks U.S. Supreme Court to curtail officers' immunity in Denver police case
A man who claims Denver officers retaliated against him for video recording an incident of police brutality is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to place guardrails on the legal concept of qualified immunity, after a lower court concluded that the officers were immune from lawsuit even though Denver’s training specifically covered the right of […]