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Why U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet won’t be governor of Colorado | Jon Caldara

Updated 9 hours ago

I suggest we get used to saying the words, “Governor Weiser.” The election for Colorado’s next governor does not take place in November. It’s in...

Capitol M: Olympic version | Week of Feb. 7, 2026

Updated 1 day ago

The lighter side of the state Capitol, usually. Sen. Byron Pelton, R-Sterling, who turns 50 this year, is sporting eyeglasses for the first time. He...

Trump’s critics are not the ones suffering from “derangement” | SONDERMANN

Updated 1 day ago

It appears that 63% of Americans, plus or minus, are deranged. Per recent surveys, that is the percentage of fellow citizens who do not approve...

A step in the right direction for Taiwan | Kelly Sloan

Updated 3 days ago

Earlier this week, amid the chaos, bustle, tension and constant movement of a legislative session in full swing, a short ceremony took place in the...

Grassroots-backed study an excellent basis for game-changing health care program | Paula Noonan

Updated 4 days ago

Does Colorado have too high of a population? | Hal Bidlack

Updated 6 days ago

Insecticide bill latest example of Colorado pols legislating your plate | Rachel Gabel

Updated 7 days ago

Transit, rail initiatives hurtling down the tracks toward a collision | Miller Hudson

Updated 7 days ago

TABOR Derangement Syndrome — Colorado’s ‘TDS’ — is real | Jon Caldara

Updated 1 week ago

More people are now leaving Colorado than moving here from other states | Vince Bzdek

Updated 1 week ago

The governor and the inmate: Trying to make sense of Polis and Peters | Eric Sondermann

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Polis potentially commuting Peters’ sentence preposterous | Dennis Maes

Updated 1 week ago

Taxpayer money squandered in conservative school districts defending selves from lawsuits | Paula Noonan

Updated 2 weeks ago

Greenland is now Colorado’s problem. And that’s a good thing. | Vince Bzdek

Updated 2 weeks ago

If only walls could talk in Colorado governor’s office | Dick Wadhams

Updated 2 weeks ago

Restoring the office of the governor in the Colorado State Capitol to its historic glory was a worthy project despite its cost. There is probably...

TABOR and the Colorado Constitution’s fiscal Gordian Knot | Miller Hudson

Updated 2 weeks ago

A corporate president advised me once there are two kinds of lawyers: “those who tell you why you can’t do things and those who figure...

Fierce, capable women at the Super Bowl of livestock shows | Rachel Gabel

Updated 2 weeks ago

The first cattle to show in the CoBank Arena in the Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Livestock Center at the National Western Stock Show were the Herefords of...

Election 2026 will be a big Democratic year, unless President Trump avoids the ‘sixth-year’ jinx | Bob Loevy

Updated 2 weeks ago

Here is analysis of which political party, the Democrats or the Republicans, will win the 2026 general elections for the U.S. Senate and the U.S....

Colorado is shrinking — time for our elected officials to take notice | Jon Caldara

Updated 2 weeks ago

The biggest accelerant of our political tribalism | SONDERMANN

Updated 2 weeks ago

Capitol M: Return to Gold Dome High, 2026 edition, and a salute to old IU

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The ramifications of President Trump’s pursuit of Greenland | Kelly Sloan

Updated 2 weeks ago

Let’s find out who’s up to the gubernatorial task post Polis | Paula Noonan

Updated 3 weeks ago

Volunteer homeowners’ associations to be hit with new lot-splitting law | Bob Loevy

Updated 3 weeks ago

Pardon me? Nah, Gov. Polis — Tina Peters deserves her time | Hal Bidlack

Updated 3 weeks ago

Political interference, activism a constant under Polis’ Colorado Parks & Wildlife | Rachel Gabel

Updated 3 weeks ago

Democratic-socialist experiments in New York, Seattle well worth watching | Miller Hudson

Updated 3 weeks ago

French Revolution comes to Colorado Democrats | Jon Caldara

Updated 3 weeks ago

Colorado oilmen may play key role in Trump’s Venezuelan oil takeover plan

Updated 3 weeks ago

When President Donald Trump summoned oil executives to the White House recently to push for major investment in Venezuela, an interesting sprinkling of smaller independent...

U.S. careening off the rails under Trump’s stewardship | Paula Noonan

Updated 4 weeks ago

Does anyone in Colorado or the United States feel like life is anywhere near normal anymore? Our aberration is not from a pandemic. It’s from...

Free speech isn’t a presidential call | Hal Bidlack

Updated 4 weeks ago

There are so many things I want to write about this week. My kindly editor strongly desires that, in Colorado Politics, I write on Colorado...

Trump joins Dems’ assault on rural Colorado | Dick Wadhams

Updated 4 weeks ago

Ruling Colorado Democrats have assaulted rural Colorado for the past seven years under Gov. Jared Polis and the Democratic socialists who drive their massive legislative...