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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...
Does Colorado have too high of a population? | Hal Bidlack
Updated 6 days ago
TABOR Derangement Syndrome — Colorado’s ‘TDS’ — is real | Jon Caldara
Updated 1 week ago
Polis potentially commuting Peters’ sentence preposterous | Dennis Maes
Updated 1 week 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....
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
Updated 2 weeks ago
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
Pardon me? Nah, Gov. Polis — Tina Peters deserves her time | Hal Bidlack
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...
The art of a Trumpian Colorado deal for Tina Peters | Miller Hudson
Updated 4 weeks ago
Misguided overtime law hampers Colorado agriculture | Rachel Gabel
Updated 4 weeks ago
Gov. Jared Polis is Rodney Dangerfield | Jon Caldara
Updated 4 weeks ago
Vince Bzdek: Coloradans are fed up with the high price of cars
Updated 4 weeks ago
Unsolicited advice to both Republicans and Democrats | SONDERMANN
Updated 4 weeks ago
Regime change, this time down Venezuela way | Kelly Sloan
Updated 1 month ago
Lack of accountability in state standardized testing system | NOONAN
Updated 1 month ago
Helping close Colorado school children’s literacy gaps | OPINION
Updated 1 month ago
Do Coloradans really care about reproductive health? | OPINION
Updated 1 month ago

