Amy Oliver Cooke warns Colorado’s energy policies threaten grid reliability | The OpEdge Podcast
Amy Oliver Cooke, Independence Institute senior fellow and Always On Energy Research co-founder, joins The OpEdge to dissect Colorado’s energy transition, grid reliability, and the state’s net-zero goals.
Cooke warns host Jimmy Sengenberger that current state policies threaten affordability and reliability — and explains why she sees nuclear energy as one key to a more dependable electric future.
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Jeff Crank, Jessica Killin set to face off in 2 debates in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 hours ago
Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank and Jessica Killin, his Democratic challenger, have agreed to debate twice in the weeks leading up to the general election in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, their campaigns have said. Crank is seeking a second term...
Three districts that will answer key Colorado political questions | Paula Noonan
Paula Noonan
paula-noonan@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Colorado’s legislature used to be a place where neither party was dominant. Dozens of seats were competitive and House and Senate majorities switched regularly. From 2010 to 2020, the House was predominantly Democratic with one two-year assembly under Republicans. The...
‘Ticked off’: Third-party U.S. Senate candidate in Colorado launches $1.3 million TV ad campaign
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 hours ago
Bob Chew, the Forward Party nominee for U.S. Senate in Colorado, sends household objects flying in a TV ad set to run statewide through September, backed by $1.3 million in ad reservations across multiple platforms, his campaign told Colorado Politics....
Colorado shifts vaccine authority to state as Trump administration revises childhood framework
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
As the Trump administration rolls out a revised childhood vaccine framework, Colorado’s law allowing the state to set its own immunization schedule has now taken effect. Issued Monday, President Donald Trump’s executive order separates childhood and adolescent vaccines into three...
Colorado NRA chapter seeks injunction against new gun‑training requirement
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 9 hours ago
The Colorado chapter of the National Rifle Association is seeking an injunction to stop the state from enforcing a new law that took effect earlier this month. The new law requires anyone buying or selling certain firearms to first complete...
Hunting is a privilege, not a constitutional right | PODIUM
Colorado Politics
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Updated 1 day ago
By Roland Halpern Colorado voters may soon be asked to place hunting and fishing in the state constitution. Proposition 302 would establish the right to hunt, fish and take wildlife using “traditional methods,” while declaring hunting and fishing are the...
DEA’s Miguel Chino describes Colorado’s place on the ‘fentanyl pill superhighway’ | The OpEdge Podcast
Tony Olivero
tony.olivero@gazette.com
Updated 2 days ago
Miguel Chino, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division, joins The OpEdge to paint the picture of Colorado’s place on America’s “fentanyl pill superhighways.” Chino updates Gazette and Colorado Politics Deputy Opinion Editor...
Colorado students push AI task force as schools navigate new tech era
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 10 hours ago
A group of students is urging lawmakers to establish a task force on artificial intelligence in education to advise districts on how to ensure that pupils and educators use the technology effectively without becoming overly reliant on it. The students...
A right to buy a product? | Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack
hal-bidlack@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 days ago
A recent story in Colorado Politics caught my eye, as I learned of a “citizen initiative” that has qualified for the November ballot. It seems supporters of Initiative 177 have collected enough signatures, 146,165 legitimate ones out of a total...
Fourteen years after Aurora — we can’t afford to go backward | GUEST COLUMN
Colorado Politics
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Updated 3 days ago
By John Hickenlooper and Gabby Giffords Two Saturdays ago, a gunman shot and killed three people and wounded several others in Twin Falls, Idaho. This latest deadly shooting comes only days after we remembered the lives we lost 14 years...
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Forward Party nominee for Colorado’s U.S. Senate seat puts $1.1 million into his campaign
Bob Chew, the Colorado Forward Party nominee for the seat held by Democratic U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, plans to report donating $1.1 million to his campaign and raising an additional $20,000 in the most recent quarter, his campaign told Colorado Politics Tuesday. The 67-year-old Boulder resident, a Navy veteran and founder and former CEO of […]
Colorado receives $5.8 million in federal weatherization assistance grants
Colorado has received nearly $6 million in federal funds through the Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program after U.S. senators expressed worries about potential delays. In May, U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Susan Collins, R-ME, issued a letter urging Energy Secretary Chris Wright to release nearly $360 million in WAP funds […]