Michael Fields reviews Colorado’s 2026 legislative session | The OpEdge Podcast
Michael Fields, executive director of Advance Colorado, joins OpEdge host and investigative columnist Jimmy Sengenberger to assess the good, the bad and the ugly of the Colorado General Assembly’s 2026 legislative session.
Reflecting on the 120 bills passed in 120 days, Fields not only spells out what the budget, transportation and crime ramifications mean for concerned Coloradans, but looks ahead at the possibility (or lack thereof) of another special session and initiatives likely to appear on your November ballot.
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Democrat Evan Munsing suspends campaign in primary to challenge Gabe Evans in Colorado’s 8th CD
Ernest Luning
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Updated 2 hours ago
Democratic congressional candidate Evan Munsing announced Wednesday that he was suspending his campaign to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans in Colorado’s most competitive U.S. House district, saying his bid to run as an outsider committed to reform has been...
From secret huddles to Zebulon — the high cost of the Dougco BOCC’s shady governance | PODIUM
Colorado Politics
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Updated 15 hours ago
By Bob Marshall, Lora Thomas and Julie Gooden In Douglas County, a new and dangerous standard of governance has taken root: if the public doesn’t like your plan, simply stop letting the public in the room. During the last year,...
Election must be decided on issues of combating public corruption, restoring integrity in government | FEEDBACK
Colorado Politics
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Updated 3 hours ago
There has been considerable press and outrage regarding Gov. Jared Polis’ commutation of former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters’s remaining prison sentence. The outrage is reinforced by President Donald J. Trump’s creation of a $1.776 billion compensation fund...
Colorado’s Democratic attorney general candidates set to debate Thursday in Parker
Ernest Luning
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Updated 2 hours ago
The four Democrats running for attorney general in Colorado’s June 30 primary are slated to take the stage Thursday night in Parker at a debate sponsored by Colorado Politics, the Denver Gazette and Common Sense Institute. The primary for the...
Gazette, Centennial Institute cosponsoring Republican gubernatorial debate Tuesday
The Gazette
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Updated 6 hours 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...
Is the ‘penumbra of privacy’ going, going, gone in Colorado? | Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack
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Updated 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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...
Processing plants are an important piece of the ag puzzle | Rachel Gabel
Rachel Gabel
rachel-gabel@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 days ago
Concrete barricades blocked the entrance to the Cargill beef plant in Ft. Morgan, Colo., on May 20. About 1,700 workers had been locked out by the company after months of contract negotiations ended with workers voting to reject the company’s...
As AI advances, are the accompanying cultural advances for the better? | Miller Hudson
Miller Hudson
miller-hudson@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
You may have noted Elon Musk was in court suing Sam Altman of OpenAI. If you were praying there was a way both of these greed bros could lose, you nearly got your wish. Emails exchanged between the parties reflect...
