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Weiser’s leadership crucial for rural win-win | Rachel Gabel

Updated 11 hours ago

Attorney General Phil Weiser is going to win the gubernatorial election. That said, Colorado agriculture and rural communities have a 30-year track record of finding...

A Colorado history lesson for Victor Marx | Dick Wadhams

Updated 11 hours ago

Victor Marx, who narrowly won the Republican nomination for governor by one half 1% after boasting of a massive 44-point lead, is just as misguided...

‘Be prepared to march in the streets’ | Miller Hudson

Updated 11 hours ago

It was early in 1974 when I first met Tim Wirth as he announced his candidacy for Congress, challenging Republican incumbent Don Brotzman. Although I...

‘CoCo’ would take taxpayers for a ride | Jon Caldara

Updated 1 day ago

Colorado wants taxpayers to spend another $4.73 billion on passenger rail. Don’t worry. They have a plan. Which is a little like your brother-in-law announcing...

The through line from Donald Trump to Victor Marx | SONDERMANN

Updated 2 days ago

Primary voters rejected big money in politics | Paula Noonan

Updated 3 days ago

Colorado’s primary proved in this political climate money doesn’t buy electoral happiness | Paula Noonan

Updated 4 days ago

Could an independent win CD-1?

Updated 6 days ago

Affronts to our children’s children | Hal Bidlack

Updated 7 days ago

Colorado Republicans will have to live with the consequences of their candidate of choice | Miller Hudson

Updated 1 week ago

Colorado Commission prioritizes feelings over science | Rachel Gabel

Updated 1 week ago

One Republican can save the First Congressional | Jon Caldara

Updated 1 week ago

What the regionality of Marx’s Republican primary win reveals about Colorado conservatives | Cronin & Loevy

Updated 1 week ago

Democrats and the siren call of socialism | SONDERMANN

Updated 1 week ago

Too many stories, too little space | Hal Bidlack

Updated 2 weeks ago

Well, this week’s column presents a problem: there are far too many things in Colorado Politics of interest, and I want to write about them...

Agriculture’s workforce act addresses H-2A program issues | Rachel Gabel

Updated 2 weeks ago

A bill recently introduced by U.S. Rep. G.T. Thompson (Pennsylvania-15) making changes to the accessibility and cost of agricultural labor has wide support from growers...

Another of Marx’s claims — his primary lead — was fake news | Dick Wadhams

Updated 2 weeks ago

Self-declared exorcist of demons and swashbuckling rescuer of 45,000 innocent women and children, Victor Marx narrowly won the Republican nomination for governor despite claiming he...

What makes a ‘real American’ after all? | Miller Hudson

Updated 2 weeks ago

I presume in each generation of a family there’s a member who assumes the role of heredity tracker. In mine it’s been my father, also Miller,...

The Weiser-Bennet primary election political geography | Cronin & Loevy

Updated 2 weeks ago

What Colorado could look like in a year under a Gov. Phil Weiser | Jon Caldara

Updated 2 weeks ago

Half of Americans don’t know what the 250th anniversary celebrates | Vince Bzdek

Updated 2 weeks ago

Phil Weiser’s sudden need to find the brake pedal | SONDERMANN

Updated 2 weeks ago

How Colorado progressives prevailed in the primary over the machine | Paula Noonan

Updated 3 weeks ago

A few thoughts on returning home | Hal Bidlack

Updated 3 weeks ago

Digesting all the consequences of a weighty Colorado primary election | Miller Hudson

Updated 3 weeks ago

Patchwork laws challenge nationwide hog production | Rachel Gabel

Updated 3 weeks ago

Colorado needs an Independence Day | Jon Caldara

Updated 3 weeks ago

Colorado primary election voters shake things up | Cronin & Loevy

Updated 3 weeks ago

25 lessons and wishes to celebrate America’s 250th | SONDERMANN

Updated 3 weeks ago

The 250th celebration of America’s birth is upon us. There is undoubtedly much to salute. Despite plenty of strife and discontent at home, America remains...

Our legislature’s mission — absolve criminal conduct | George Brauchler

Updated 4 weeks ago

As the dust settles on a primary election that should alert Coloradans to the downward dive public safety may take in November — our current...

Telling themes to take away from Tuesday’s primary elections | Paula Noonan

Updated 4 weeks ago

Let’s be clear about how Colorado’s primaries arrived at these unexpected results. The most significant voting cohorts on both the Democratic and Republican sides were...

Landlocked Colorado’s sea-change primary | ANALYSIS

Updated 4 weeks ago

Colorado’s primary elections held in the doldrums of early summer tend to be routine affairs, most often predictable and by the book. Tuesday’s battlefield was...