WATCH LIVE: Karoline Leavitt holds press conference
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is holding a press conference scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.
TRUMP ANNOUNCES TRADE DEAL WITH JAPAN WORTH $550B, IMPLEMENTING 15% RECIPROCAL TARIFFS
The press conference comes after President Donald Trump announced a major $550 billion trade deal with Japan, which he speculated is the “largest Deal ever made.”
“Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits,” Trump said. “This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it. Perhaps most importantly, Japan will open their Country to Trade including Cars and Trucks, Rice and certain other Agricultural Products, and other things.”
Republican Roemer takes on big name in CD1 against Schroeder; Colorado nursing homes get scathing inspection | A LOOK BACK
Thelma Grimes
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Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: Republican activist Gloria Roemer was running for Colorado’s first Congressional District against incumbent Democratic state Rep. Pat Schroeder, and she came out swinging, labelling Schroeder “a hypocrite” for calling Congress a “coin-op legislature.” “The people...
CO PO Calendar | Sept. 29-Oct. 4
Colorado Politics
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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,...
Colorado Republicans again weigh whether to boot unaffiliated voters from party primaries | TRAIL MIX
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 9 hours ago
For the fifth time since Colorado voters created the state’s semi-open primary system, Republican Party officials are set to decide if unaffiliated voters can cast ballots in the party’s upcoming primary. More than 400 members of the Republicans’ state central...
Congressional Republicans call for special session to take action on Colorado’s ‘crime crisis’
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 2 weeks ago
Colorado’s Republican U.S. Representatives are asking Gov. Jared Polis to call a second special session this year to address what they call a “crime crisis.” In a joint letter sent to Polis on Tuesday, U.S. Reps. Gabe Evans, Lauren Boebert,...
Weld County Sheriff condemns law that led to release of violent suspect
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 2 weeks ago
Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams says a 2024 law required him to release a man who had been charged with attempted murder stemming from an incident in Greeley earlier this year. According to Reams, 21-year-old Debisa Ephraim was arrested in...
Museum’s ‘Passport to Play’ was both fun and profitable | NONPROFIT REGISTER
Joanne Davidson
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Updated 2 weeks ago
CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF DENVER AT MARSICO CAMPUS Denver News: His role as president and chief executive officer of the Children’s Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus requires Mike Yankovich to wear many hats: exhibit developer, growth and innovation catalyst, number-cruncher,...
The clock is ticking: Negotiations stall on Colorado River water-sharing pact
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 weeks ago
With a critical Nov. 11 deadline fast approaching, negotiators from the seven Colorado River basin states remain at odds over how to manage a river that serves 40 million people — and which, experts long agree, is overallocated. Negotiations are...
CPW fires ranger allegedly involved in stabbing hoax at state park
Spencer McKee
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Updated 3 weeks ago
On Aug. 19, seasonal park ranger Callum Heskett, 26, is said to have reported that he had been stabbed by an attacker at Colorado’s Staunton State Park. Callum was transported to a local hospital with a serious torso injury, with...
Israel bombs another Gaza City high-rise as US advances a new ceasefire proposal
Wafaa Shurafa
wafaa.shurafa@associatedpress.com
Updated 3 weeks ago
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck and destroyed another high-rise building in Gaza City on Monday after warning residents to evacuate, part of an offensive aimed at taking over the largest Palestinian city. The military said it was...
Ballot measure seeks tax hike for higher income earners in 2026
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 weeks ago
A coalition led by a Colorado think tank will file a ballot initiative on Wednesday to raise state income tax rates on annual household incomes and corporations with earnings above $500,000. The ballot measure, which sets up a “graduated” income...