Author: Colorado Politics staff

Colorado Politics caught up with some of the state’s top politicos to hear what they’re most thankful for this holiday season and to poach a favorite family recipe. Here is the bounty we were served: Sen. Owen Hill: Black bottom pie Colorado state Sen. Owen Hill, a Republican from Colorado Springs, showed his daughters firsthand…

The votes are (mostly) counted for Election 2019, and for being an off-year election, the stakes were sure high last night. Prop CC sailed to a clear defeat, a victory for those who believed state government isn’t entitled to retain citizens’ occasional TABOR refunds. Prop DD’s apparent victory wasn’t so clean-cut; the measure appears to have…

“Giddy up!” was a favorite charge of former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. He referred to it in a book title, and the catchphrase was applied to his now-deceased presidential campaign PAC. But as a tyke in Boulder, it was current Gov. Jared Polis who might have used it as a tagline to “trick or treat,” dressed…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to sustain President Donald Trump’s veto of Democratic-sponsored legislation reversing his raid of military-base project money in Colorado and elsewhere to pay for the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The 53-36 vote — 53 for overturning the veto and 36 for sustaining it — was well short of the two-thirds…

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to a $117 million multistate settlement over allegations it deceptively marketed its pelvic mesh products, which support women’s sagging pelvic organs. Colorado’s share of the settlement is $2,298,488, the office of state Attorney General Phil Weiser said. Ohio’s attorney general said Thursday an investigation found that J&J, the world’s biggest…

The U.S. Secretary of Interior has extended the tenure of the Trump administration’s top steward of public lands, rebuffing calls by U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado and other Democrats for his termination. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Monday extended William Perry Pendley’s role as Bureau of Land Management acting director to Jan. 3. Pendley’s…

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would grant legal marijuana businesses access to banking, a measure that would clear up a longstanding headache for the industry. The bill heads next to the U.S. Senate, where both of Colorado’s senators hailed its passage in the House. The bill, called the SAFE Banking…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate has passed a measure that would block President Donald Trump from using emergency powers to raid the budget for construction projects on military bases as a way to pay for building his fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. Eleven Republicans voted with Democrats to rebuke the president on a 54-41 vote.…

Equifax has agreed to pay $700 million, potentially more, to settle with the federal authorities and states over its 2017 data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people, roughly half of the U.S. population. Colorado’s share of the settlement comes to $3.16 million, state Attorney General…