The Colorado state Senate's Education Committee on Thursday gave a party-line OK to a bill removing school-choice language from a 2018 measure on foster children that was the subject of a court challenge. Continue Reading
SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham sounded a rallying cry to increase state spending on public education including preschool and encouraged allied Democratic lawmakers to revive initiatives on gun control, pay equity for women and climate-change regulation that stalled u… Continue Reading
Denver Public Schools teachers are planning to take a strike vote Saturday unless they can work out their differences with district officials on a new contract. Continue Reading
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday issued an executive order aimed at putting more electric and zero-emission vehicles on the state's roads. Continue Reading
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet was one of 12 Democratic senators, mostly from western states, who wrote to President Trump warning that the shutdown would put lives at risk this coming fire season. Continue Reading
Health insurance enrollments through Colorado’s exchange ended slightly up compared with last year, led by a rush of people seeking federal tax credits to ease their monthly insurance premiums. Continue Reading
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U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, who is running to head the Colorado Republican Party, now ranks among the few Republicans in Colorado supporting a state bill that fellow party members say has the potential to bankrupt the party. Continue Reading
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In a CoPo interview, the new congressman cites his combat background in explaining why he stands with other congressional Democrats who refuse to make concessions on the border wall demanded by President Trump. Continue Reading
Colorado’s spring runoff is expected to take a hit as the impacts of last year’s drought linger. Continue Reading
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The partial government shutdown is a double-whammy for Cara and Philip Mangone, a married couple from Philadelphia. Both are agents with the Transportation Safety Administration, both working full time at the Philadelphia airport. Neither knows when they might again start drawing their paychecks. Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday called climate change "a huge issue" but not the "greatest crisis" and drew fire from Democrats at his confirmation hearing over the regulatory rollbacks he's made in six months as the agen… Continue Reading
The law of unintended consequences got put through its paces Wednesday in the Colorado state Senate's Business, Labor and Technology Committee. Continue Reading
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse has landed a seat on the high-profile House Judiciary Committee, Democratic leadership announced Wednesday. Continue Reading
"All the plans that brewers have for 2019 will get thrown out the window," said Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association in Boulder. Continue Reading
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock has topped $1 million in fundraising in his bid for a third term this spring, four times as much as any other candidate. Continue Reading
Charlie Ehler, longtime El Paso County Republican activist and retired Air Force master sergeant, has officially thrown his hat in the ring to chair the county’s GOP. Continue Reading
Polis’ election can be seen as a liberal landmark and a libertarian one. Continue Reading
The Denver Democrat on Tuesday was picked to lead the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Continue Reading
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Negotiations grew more tense between the Denver teachers union and the district on Tuesday as the two sides struggled to find common ground over its pay-for-performance system. Continue Reading
Attorney General Phil Weiser submitted an amended budget request Tuesday to the Joint Budget Committee, seeking additional funds for staff salaries, to combat the state's opioid epidemic and to set up an energy advisory unit to guide local governments on energy development. Continue Reading
Polis campaigned on the kindergarten proposal and announced it as his top priority in last week's State of the State address. Continue Reading
A Colorado Republican legislator is gathering support from Democrats on a bill one GOP leader calls “sinister” and others say has the potential to bankrupt the party. Continue Reading
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A high-level commission would redesign the Colorado Springs-based U.S. Olympic Committee under a measure proposed by Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner. Continue Reading
U.S. attorney general nominee William Barr says he would "not go after" marijuana companies in states like Colorado where cannabis is legal. Continue Reading
GRAND JUNCTION — State regulators have approved a proposal by Ursa Resources to drill 24 wells and a wastewater injection well near a mobile home park 50 miles east of here. Continue Reading
The future is hemp, and the future is now, Colorado hemp industry leader Tim Gordon says. Some have called the passage last month of the U.S. farm bill, which takes hemp from a Schedule 1 controlled substance to an agricultural commodity, as a game-changer. But Gordon calls it "a game starter" for the fledgling hemp industry. Continue Reading
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NEW YORK — The Trump administration cannot put a question about citizenship status on the 2020 census, a federal judge in New York ruled Friday in a boost to proponents of counting immigrants. Continue Reading
“This is the lumber company trying to buy the national park," one industry observer says. Continue Reading
The partial government shutdown rippled through the U.S. transportation system Monday as staffing issues closed a security checkpoint at Houston’s largest airport and the world’s biggest hub in Atlanta suffered unusually long lines. Continue Reading
Denver and 16 other Colorado communities have sued the manufacturers and distributors of opioids claiming they fraudulently hyped the drugs behind the deadly nationwide epidemic of overdoses. Continue Reading
Federal workers in Jefferson County have made the most unemployment claims in Colorado since the government shutdown began more than three weeks ago. Continue Reading
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK — Rocky Mountain National Park is tapping into revenue from recreation fees to reopen parts of the park that were closed during part of the ongoing federal government shutdown. Continue Reading
Democratic lawmakers say they plan to introduce legislation to require that Colorado's oil and gas regulators make health and environmental concerns their top priority in response to Monday's long-anticipated court ruling that says the state must give more weight to other factors. Continue Reading
Few people in Colorado Springs who aren’t getting paychecks during the federal shutdown have tapped an assistance program for their families. Continue Reading
The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission will move forward with an investigation into some, but not all, of a former Republican lawmaker's complaints about travel and gifts provided to then-Gov. John Hickenlooper in 2018. Continue Reading
The Air Force Academy’s athletic program will get an ombudsman to deal with complaints and a new system for cadets to anonymously report concerns after an independent review of the program that stemmed from two hazing incidents since late 2016. Continue Reading
David Pourshoushtari can trace his lineage to Iran and Korea by way of the D.C. area. But if you ask the up-and-coming political messaging ace, now communications chief for the Colorado Democratic Party, he’ll tell you his true origins lie in the American Dream. Continue Reading
The Colorado Supreme Court said Monday that state law does not allow regulators to make public health and the environment their top priority when setting rules for oil and gas drilling. Continue Reading
Days out of office, the former Colorado governor has beefed up his team of advisors ahead of an expected announcement about a White House bid. Continue Reading
A hedge-fund-backed media group known for buying up struggling local papers and cutting costs has made an offer for USA Today publisher Gannett Co. Inc. Continue Reading
The election’s blue tide has given cause for unease in some quarters of commerce and industry over what might come next. Continue Reading
Colorado voters spoke out clearly against overly regulating oil and gas. Moderate Democrats would be wise to listen, if they intend to stay in power. Continue Reading
Alpine Bank, with 40 branches in Colorado, has set aside $5 million to cover an emergency loan program. Continue Reading
Again the phone rings in the Fall River Visitor Center. Again Lynn Stepaniak answers, as she has throughout the federal government’s longest shutdown ever. Continue Reading
The government shutdown has suspended federal cleanups at Superfund sites around the nation and forced the cancellation of public hearings, deepening the mistrust and resentment of surrounding residents who feel people in power long ago abandoned them to live among the toxic residue of the … Continue Reading
