Author: Vic Vela

After two years of failing to persuade state lawmakers to pass a felony drunken-driving bill, Deb Grenske wondered whether she could handle yet another disappointment as the legislation was being debated again earlier this year. “I told my husband I didn’t know how many times I could go to the Capitol and look at these…

Organizers behind an effort to oust three conservative Jefferson County school board members moved one step closer to their goal Tuesday as backers turned in thousands more signatures than are required to force a recall. But whether an election will be held in November is another story. At a rally outside the Jefferson County clerk’s…

A state lawmaker thinks he has figured out how to get Gov. John Hickenlooper to sign a bill that would curb the use of red-light cameras in the state – give the governor what he wants. State Rep. Steve Lebsock, D-Thornton, told The Colorado Statesman he is in the process of drafting a bill for…

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s recent trip to Denver left the campaign buoyed by the buzz generated from the lively and overflowing crowd that came to hear him speak. “There was tremendous enthusiasm at that event,” said Harlin Savage, a Sanders campaign media coordinator. “I was even surprised.” But political analysts think the Sanders campaign…