Author: Conrad Swanson, The Gazette

Colorado’s Democratic lawmakers may have had their way in passing a controversial “national popular vote” bill this week, but Republicans want to have their say before it hits Gov. Jared Polis’ desk. “Those arrogant idiots in the state legislature think they’re smarter than [the framers of the Constitution]” said Jeff Hays, chair of the Colorado…

A Colorado Springs police officer was disciplined after he allegedly slammed a handcuffed teenager to the floor of Memorial Hospital in late 2013, severely injuring her jaw, teeth, face and neck. Alexis Acker, then 18, received $100,000 from the city in 2016 to settle her excessive force lawsuit. But the officer’s discipline and the reasoning…

A committee of the state House of Representatives Wednesday heard the latest bill in a long-running series of attempts to ban abortion in Colorado with few exceptions. Few, if any, minds were changed through hours of testimony, it seemed. Democratic members of the House Committee of Health and Insurance killed the bill on a 7-4…

Colorado Republicans are calling for all hands on deck to testify against a seemingly inevitable bill that would pledge all of Colorado’s nine Electoral College votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote. The Senate approved the bill, proposed by state Sen. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette, in late January, passing the measure to the…

The El Paso County Republican Party is under new leadership as of Saturday, when hundreds of the county party’s members voted in a new chair and secretary and re-elected the party’s vice chair. Longtime GOP operative Tamra Farah will take over as chair; Mary Bradfield held her position as vice chair; and former county commissioner…