Greg Lopez, Republican candidate for Colorado governor
Former congressman Greg Lopez joins a crowded field of Republican candidates for governor. With Gov. Jared Polis being term-limited, Colorado will elect a new leader in 2026.
Lopez, a veteran, started his political career at age 27 as mayor of Parker. He later served as Colorado’s state director for the U.S. Small Business Administration. In 2024, he won a special election to represent Colorado’s 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving through January 2025.
Colorado is shrinking — time for our elected officials to take notice | Jon Caldara
Jon Caldara
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Updated 2 days ago
By Jon Caldara Something strange is happening in Colorado — strange enough that the political class should notice. People are leaving Colorado. After years of being one of the fastest-growing states in the nation, net in-migration has stopped and may...
National Western Junior Livestock Auction sets record
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 17 hours ago
The 120th National Western Stock Show, which closes Sunday, saw a standing-room only crowd in the CoBank auction arena at the new Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Livestock Center. Bidders set a record Friday for the top eight livestock – steers, lambs, goats...
Capitol M: Return to Gold Dome High, 2026 edition, and a salute to old IU
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 3 days ago
Welcome back, campers! The 2026 legislative session is upon the good citizens of Colorado, and for a few, the first Monday of the session, Jan. 19, was pretty special. There are at least four folks in the Capitol who are...
Report: Colorado government has grown beyond TABOR’s limits
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 1 day ago
Colorado’s government has grown substantially over the past three decades beyond the limits that voters approved to restrain that expansion, according to a new report from a think tank. The analysis from the Independence Institute, which examines state spending, revenue...
The ramifications of President Trump’s pursuit of Greenland | Kelly Sloan
Kelly Sloan
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Updated 2 days ago
President Donald Trump has evidently stepped back from his threatened fantasy of invading Greenland — the sovereign territory of a U.S. ally — to which many a sigh of relief has been expressed, including by the markets. There was next...
Rep. Ron Weinberg won’t seek reelection
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Republican Rep. Ron Weinberg of Loveland announced on Thursday evening that he will not seek another term in the Colorado House. “Serving this community has been one of the greatest honors of my life,” the two-term state representative said on...
Colorado title board OKs ballot measures to eliminate flat income tax in favor of graduated brackets
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Proponents hoping to change Colorado’s income tax structure from a flat rate to graduated tiers — thereby raising taxes for some brackets — walked away from a Wednesday meeting with eight ballot measures approved by the title board. The coalition...
Colorado lawmakers want officers to conduct ‘lethality assessments’ when responding to domestic violence calls
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is hoping to reduce to Colorado’s rising domestic violence fatalities through a bill that would require law enforcement agencies around the state to conduct “lethality assessments” on domestic violence victims. In early December of last...
Colorado Joint Budget Committee rejects DOC’s $2.4M request for more beds
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 days ago
The state’s Joint Budget Committee voted on Wednesday to deny the Department of Corrections’ $2.4 million request for additional prison beds, citing the department’s lack of a plan to address its ongoing overcrowding problems. In September, the committee approved the...
Colorado attorney general invites public to report ICE ‘misconduct’
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 2 days ago
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser has launched a new online mechanism that allows Colorado residents to report “misconduct” by federal immigration agents, his office announced on Wednesday. “Nobody is above the rule of law, including federal agents such as ICE...
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Rounding up a year that mostly won't be missed | BIDLACK
As I sat down to write this, my last column of 2025, I reflected back on a year that was, well, interesting from an old political science professor’s perspective, but which contained a lot of pain for a lot of people. And as is pretty much always the case, I found Colorado Politics to be […]
Federal judge rules Trump administration can share illegal immigrants’ Medicaid data with ICE
The Trump administration can continue its practice of sharing the biographical, location, and contact information of illegal immigrants between federal agencies early in the new year, a federal judge ruled on Monday. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, of the Northern District of California, issued the preliminary injunction order […]