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Colorado officials react as Trump weighs reclassifying marijuana

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Colorado policymakers and advocacy groups are responding to reports that the federal government could begin loosening restrictions on marijuana, according to insiders in Washington. According...

Irrelevant Hickenlooper draws a challenger | WADHAMS

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State Sen. Julie Gonzales should be ashamed of herself. Doesn’t Gonzales understand that U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper is entitled to the Democratic nomination for Senate?...

Conservation, ranching and the land always win | GABEL

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Sue Anschutz Rodgers sat in her downtown Denver office, far from her beloved Crystal River Ranch, but surrounded by photos of the ranch and a...

An early candidate for 2026’s word of the year: ‘affordability’ | HUDSON

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The Oxford Press linked to the famous British University and publisher of the world’s best known English Dictionary has selected its favorite new word for...

Suddenly, Colorado has a private school choice program │ Vince Bzdek

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Dougco shoplifting ordinance victimizes victims | CALDARA

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Trump targets Colorado AI law with executive order, setting stage for legal fight

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Colorado’s government spending has outpaced inflation, analysis finds

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Trump pardons Tina Peters, but Colorado officials say he can’t reverse state convictions | TRAIL MIX

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Rethinking Medicare after COVID-era Obamacare subsidies | SLOAN

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Colleagues and friends remember former Colorado state lawmaker Lew Entz

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Colorado’s cost of living soars, ranks third-most expensive in the U.S.

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DOJ sues Colorado Secretary of State for refusing to release voter information

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Colorado Rep. Brittany Pettersen cheers President Trump signing into law 2 bipartisan bills she led

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Regulatory layers turn cost of doing business in Colorado into ‘death by a thousand cuts’ | FISCAL ROCKIES

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Editor’s Note: Once among the nation’s fastest-growing economies, Colorado today confronts mounting challenges that threaten its momentum. This series reveals how a state once defined...

Underlying design failures built into Colorado’s standardized tests | NOONAN

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Third graders can’t read. That’s a common assertion. How do we know? Colorado’s CMAS standardized tests for third graders tell us. What the chicken littles...

Colorado Reps. Hurd and Neguse join forces to modernize federal snow-forecasting program

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A federal snow-forecasting program, to be updated under a bill from Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd, won approval in the House on Wednesday. HR 3857,...

Colorado aims to close talent gap with new workforce development agency, initiatives

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Colorado’s education leaders and legislators are planning changes to the state’s workforce development programs – including the creation of a new state agency – to...

Colorado legislators review wolf program as funding challenges persist

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What the Minnesota fraud case teaches Colorado about grant oversight | PODIUM

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What are we doing in the Caribbean exactly? | SLOAN

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Colorado’s universal preschool enrollment begins for upcoming school year

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Colorado vacancy panels face challenge: Replacing senator and representative from the same area

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Real leadership requires long-term thinking | BIDLACK

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Psychedelics are a safe, novel approach to Colorado’s mental health crisis | OPINION

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State Sen. Dylan Roberts runs for reelection

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Audit finds major gaps in Colorado’s oil and gas reporting, enforcement

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Colorado Democrat Julie Gonzales launches U.S. Senate primary challenge to incumbent John Hickenlooper

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Trump admin’s maiming of renewables agencies an energy affront | HUDSON

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NREL has a rhythmic resonance that won’t be matched by NLR, Colorado’s newly christened National Laboratory of the Rockies. Nearly lost to memory is how...

Ranchers are not an endangered species, nor an invasive one | GABEL

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Animal agriculture, ranching, hunting and farming are not dying ways of life. The cowboy is not about to ride off into the sunset and certain...

Democrat Shannon Bird to step down from Colorado legislature to campaign full-time for Congress

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State Rep. Shannon Bird, a Westminster Democrat, said Sunday that she plans to resign from the Colorado legislature next month in order to focus on...

Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission votes to suspend reality | CALDARA

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Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission has done it again — proving when regulators get together, they can create a fantasyland so detached from reality it makes...