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Tapped: As fire risk climbs, Colorado faces threat to drinking water
Thelma Grimes
thelma.grimes@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 10 minutes ago
Specialists surveying Colorado’s forests know this year will be challenging. Snow melted too quickly, strong winds dried out the trees, and the early signs of danger are already settling across the landscape. Wildfire season is no longer confined to a...
Gazette, Centennial Institute cosponsoring Republican gubernatorial debate Tuesday
The Gazette
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Updated 1 hour ago
The Gazette and the Centennial Institute are cosponsoring a Republican gubernatorial debate Tuesday at Colorado Christian University, featuring candidates state Rep. Scott Bottoms, a Colorado Springs pastor, and longtime GOP insider state Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer. Candidates will field questions on...
Trump is seeing doctors for his annual physical. What the public finds out is up to him
Collin Binkley
collin.binkley@associatedpress.com
Updated 3 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is getting a medical exam on Tuesday, putting his health under renewed public scrutiny after he has worked to dismiss concerns over his age and stamina. The 79-year-old president traveled to Walter Reed National...
Is the ‘penumbra of privacy’ going, going, gone in Colorado? | Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack
hal-bidlack@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 19 hours ago
Once again, there are too many things in Colorado Politics that are newsworthy and should be written about. Unless my kindly editor will allow me to write a book-length column this week? (Ed: not so much…) First up, I’d like...
Quiet at the state Capitol doesn’t mean silence on energy policy | GUEST COLUMN
Colorado Politics
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Updated 20 hours ago
By Carly West By many accounts, Colorado’s 2026 legislative session was unusually quiet on oil-and-natural-gas policy. There was no sweeping new oil-and-natural-gas package. No major new production restrictions. After years of contentious energy debates dominating the Capitol, the relative quiet...
The history, and future, of extinction in Colorado | GUEST COLUMN
Colorado Politics
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Updated 20 hours ago
By Eric Washburn When I was a kid growing up in Aurora in the late 1960s and early 1970s, one of my favorite things to do was to go to the Denver Museum of Natural History and spend countless hours...
Memorial Day at Fort Logan honors sacrifice of fallen troops
Nicholas Fogleman
nicholas.fogleman@denvergazette.com
Updated 2 hours ago
Hundreds gathered Monday at Fort Logan National Cemetery to honor fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony, where speakers emphasized the sacrifice and memory of military personnel and their families. The ceremony took place as the nation approaches the...
Legislature overrules state Supreme Court decisions, federal judges contend with violations of orders | COURT CRAWL
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 hours ago
Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The Colorado legislature overruled two recent state Supreme Court decisions in this year’s session, plus federal judges are addressing the government’s violations of their orders...
Appeals court reinstates murder case despite ex-DA Linda Stanley’s conduct
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 18 hours ago
Colorado’s second-highest court reinstated the murder and child abuse charges on Thursday against a Fremont County defendant, reasoning that the former district attorney’s misconduct did not warrant dismissal of the charges. A judge previously dismissed the criminal case against defendant...
How a CU Boulder law school program helped free a Denver man after 27 years in ‘shaken baby’ murder case
Matt Kyle
matt.kyle@denvergazette.com
Updated 2 hours ago
From the first time she looked at Stephen Martinez’s case, Boulder attorney Jeanne Segil knew she had a shot at getting him released from prison. Martinez, 58, spent 27 years behind bars for a crime he now says never happened....