DEA’s Miguel Chino describes Colorado’s place on the ‘fentanyl pill superhighway’ | The OpEdge Podcast
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 Antonio Olivero on the latest in the DEA’s fight in the Rocky Mountain region against the deadly drug, the cartels and criminal elements who peddle it into the Centennial State and what it all means for everyday Coloradans.
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Colorado shifts vaccine authority to state as Trump administration reduces recommended childhood doses
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 2 hours 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 minutes 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 9 hours 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...
Colorado students push AI task force as schools navigate new tech era
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 22 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 2 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 2 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...
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son arrested, faces charges of sexual exploitation of minor
Matt Kyle
matt.kyle@denvergazette.com
Updated 2 days ago
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s son Tyler Jay Boebert has been arrested and accused of recording and sharing a video depicting himself having intercourse with a minor, according to court records. The case originated in Garfield County in Western Colorado and...
Hunter shot Colorado wolf after mistaking it for a coyote, wildlife office says
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Colorado Parks and Wildlife said Monday that a female wolf from British Columbia that died in January was shot by a hunter who mistook her for a coyote. The wolf, identified as 2504‑BC, was one of 17 wolves relocated since...
A daring and fearless rescuer — is afraid of a debate | Dick Wadhams
Dick Wadhams
dick-wadhams@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
Victor Marx, the Republican nominee for governor who says he can exorcize demons and who claimed he has fearlessly rescued 45,000 women and children during 150 “high-risk” missions around the world, appears to be intimidated by the notion of debating...
Colorado’s ballot-initiative process again a battleground for deep pockets, special interests — not the people | Miller Hudson
Miller Hudson
miller-hudson@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
The Oxford English Dictionary defines a constitution as, “The set of fundamental principles according to which a state is constituted and governed, a body of rules prescribing the major elements of the structure and activities of any organization.” Somewhere in...
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Colorado students push AI task force as schools navigate new tech era
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 serve on the General Assembly’s Youth Advisory Council Committee or COYAC — a joint committee […]
Hunting is a privilege, not a constitutional right | PODIUM
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 state’s preferred means of managing wildlife. But though hunting and fishing are an important management […]