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Candidate’s disturbing anti-animal agriculture history | Rachel Gabel
Rachel Gabel
rachel-gabel@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 22 hours ago
Rep. Manny Rutinel has busted out a cowboy hat for campaign photos and has thrown it into the ring to represent Colorado’s 8th Congressional District in D.C. He is endorsed by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, a New Jersey democrat who serves on the Committee...
Marx, Bottoms, a primary death wish for Colorado GOP | Dick Wadhams
Dick Wadhams
dick-wadhams@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 22 hours ago
Colorado Republicans stand on the brink of total irrelevance and embarrassment if they nominate one of the two nonsensical, buffoonish candidates running for governor, Victor Marx and Scott Bottoms. Republicans are already in a very defensive, tenuous position as Democrats...
Trump to meet with Middle Eastern leaders at G7 summit overshadowed by Iran and Ukraine wars
Colorado Politics
chris.brubaker+copo@gazette.com
Updated 2 hours ago
President Donald Trump will meet with Middle Eastern leaders in Evian, France, early Monday morning, where his efforts to finally end the Iran and Ukraine wars are likely to cloud all other topics of conversation at the G7 summit. In...
Remember the grassroots reason for DEI | Miller Hudson
Miller Hudson
miller-hudson@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 22 hours ago
The Trump administration’s jihad against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs has metastasized into the most unexpected corners of American life. Yet, before examining this policy “incursion,” it’s worthwhile to examine the roots of DEI which reach back more than...
Littleton commits loan, incentives for Manning-linked development
Nicholas Fogleman
nicholas.fogleman@denvergazette.com
Updated 2 hours ago
The Littleton City Council voted 4–3 to approve a public-private partnership for the First Street Farms development, a hospitality development linked to former Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning. The vote finalizes an agreement between the city and developer Gastamo Group...
Denver City Council eyes lobbying regulations, restriction
Deborah Grigsby
deborah.smith@denvergazette.com
Updated 2 hours ago
Topping the agenda for the Denver City Council’s Monday’s regular meeting is a proposal that, if adopted, would amend the Denver Revised Municipal Code to increase regulation of lobbyists. This will be the second reading for Council Bill 26-0686. High-profile...
Why I’m voting Democrat | Jon Caldara
Jon Caldara
jon-caldara@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
It makes no sense to be a Republican in Colorado. Or a Democrat for that matter. On the day I turned 18, even before I bought my first legal 3.2 beer (remember 3.2 beer?), I went to the courthouse and...
Flesh-eating cattle parasite spreads beyond Texas as new screwworm cases found | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
The Associated Press
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Updated 4 days ago
NEW MEXICO Screwworm spreads beyond Texas Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one found in a dog in New Mexico, outside the main cluster in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a resurgent pest...
Jeffco Public Schools: Boys on girls’ sports rosters were mascots, not athletes
Matt Kyle
matt.kyle@denvergazette.com
Updated 2 hours ago
Jeffco Public Schools this week said the boys the Trump administration claimed to have found on girls’ sports rosters were trainers, mascots and managers, not student-athletes. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced in March that a...
Michael Dougherty is literally running for attorney general in Colorado Democrat’s 1st TV ad
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Democratic attorney general candidate Michael Dougherty, the Boulder County district attorney, runs laps around the judicial complex in Denver that houses the office he’s seeking in a TV ad released Friday that includes a subtle dig at one of his...