Rachel Gabel diagnoses Colorado’s sharp rural-urban divide | The OpEdge Podcast
Gazette columnist Rachel Gabel, editor of The Fence Post Magazine, says Gov. Jared Polis has ushered in an unprecedented era of tone-deafness to rural Colorado.
In this sweeping interview with investigative columnist Jimmy Sengenberger, Gabel leaves no stone unturned over the issues facing rural Coloradans, warning everyday working people averse to politics, “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu” at the state Capitol.
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Hickenlooper hits airwaves with 1st TV ad in Colorado’s Democratic US Senate primary
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 22 minutes ago
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper launched his reelection campaign’s first TV ad Tuesday, a week before Colorado voters start receiving primary ballots, with a spot taking aim at the Trump administration’s foiled plans to sell public lands. Hickenlooper is facing a...
Colorado’s other river problem | Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack
hal-bidlack@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 hours ago
Well, the legislative session is over, and my inbox is filled with notifications of the many, many bills Gov. Jared Polis has signed, as well as the few he vetoed, and I could write quite a few pages on the...
Help adult smokers transition away from cigarettes | GUEST COLUMN
Colorado Politics
colorado-politics@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 11 hours ago
By Brian Erkkila Colorado families, educators and public-health leaders have spent years working to prevent underage tobacco use — and the newest national data suggest those efforts are paying off. The FDA’s 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) is a...
Colorado Democrats slam Tina Peters’ release, while Republicans cheer
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 17 hours ago
Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk convicted of breaching her county’s secure voting equipment, drew cheers from fellow Republicans upon her release from prison Monday after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence. Other state Democrats, however, said remarks...
Colorado groups push policies on hunting, taxes, transgender issues this November election
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 16 hours ago
With five initiatives already cleared and many more in the pipeline, Colorado voters will face major policy decisions this fall that would affect their income taxes, how schools deal with transgender athletes and whether hundreds of millions in funding should...
Gov. Polis signs law allowing ‘conversion therapy’ recipients to sue providers
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 16 hours ago
Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed a bill enabling individuals who underwent “conversion therapy” to seek damages from practitioners, calling it harmful and ineffective as he also moved to prohibit state funding for it. Conversion therapy refers to practices that...
Rediscovering the shared purpose that brings us Coloradans together again | Miller Hudson
Miller Hudson
miller-hudson@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Perhaps a good place to start considering gerrymandering is to take a closer look at Elbridge Gerry, signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of Congress, Massachusetts governor and fifth vice president of the United States. Born in 1744,...
Colorado Republicans elect software engineer Craig Steiner to fill vacant state chairman position
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
The Colorado Republican Party on Saturday elected Craig Steiner to fill the party’s vacant state chair position at a state central committee meeting in Buena Vista, just over a week before primary ballots go out to voters and five months...
Pay raises for incompetence at the Colorado Capitol | Jon Caldara
Jon Caldara
jon-caldara@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
By Jon Caldara I am personally responsible for helping overpay socialists to make Colorado unaffordable, overregulated and one windstorm away from a power blackout. I failed you. Colorado legislators already get automatic inflation raises. You know, just like your job...
Founding documents reconnect us to our shared American roots – and rebelliousness | Vince Bzdek
Vince Bzdek
vince.bzdek@gazette.com
Updated 3 days ago
When you first lay eyes on the actual founding documents of our country that, for the first time in history, have traveled together from their gilded cages in Washington to visit us out here in the hinterlands, you’re struck not...
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Colorado’s other river problem | Hal Bidlack
Well, the legislative session is over, and my inbox is filled with notifications of the many, many bills Gov. Jared Polis has signed, as well as the few he vetoed, and I could write quite a few pages on the new laws and what they mean for our future. I’d like to write, for example, […]
Hickenlooper hits airwaves with 1st TV ad in Colorado’s Democratic US Senate primary
U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper launched his reelection campaign’s first TV ad Tuesday, a week before Colorado voters start receiving primary ballots, with a spot taking aim at the Trump administration’s foiled plans to sell public lands. Hickenlooper is facing a primary challenge from state Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat running at the incumbent from […]