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The political landscape in the state seemed to shift beneath Jefferson County Tuesday night, or at least that’s how it felt on Union Boulevard in Lakewood, as county school board election results flashed onto screens at election parties set up across the street from one another, delivering news of a landslide victory that recalled the…

Latinos on the left and right in Colorado rallied in advance of the CNBC Republican presidential primary debate this week. The groups separately shared concern about the rhetoric that has marked the race so far and fears that it will ring up long-term negative social and political costs. “It is ugly and it’s hurtful,” said…

BOULDER — Hardly anyone inside the Coors Event Center seemed impressed by the CNBC Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday night. Those in attendance seemed unanimous seeing the moderators as oddly angry and also uninterested in the “Your Money, Your Vote” middle-class, pocketbook theme that was supposed to guide discussion. “There was nothing said here…

Why is this Jefferson County school board election such a thing? School boards positions have long been relatively high-profile local elected spots. Board members control a lot of local and state tax money. They are subject to the scrutiny of all of the voters related to anyone who has ever been a district student. Small-bore…

It’s a wonky tax program that puts hundreds and thousands of dollars into the pockets of low-income workers. Researchers call it the best general anti-poverty program going and laud it in particular as a low-cost, high-return policy that lifts up working parents when they need it most and benefits the children of those parents over…

State Rep. Clarice Navarro, a Republican from Pueblo, celebrated National Hispanic Heritage Month with roughly 30 of her re-election campaign supporters at a happy-hour gathering at Lime in downtown Denver earlier this month, kicking off a conversation about ethnic policy and Republican outreach in swing-state Colorado, where the Latino population is now more than 21…

“Measure 1A is a quintessential win-win-win for Adams County, Denver and the entire metro region,” says M.E. Smith, spokesperson for the 1A for DIA campaign. Smith is working with a veteran public affairs firm that has taken on bruising state initiative campaigns in the past, but she seems never to have had an easier job…

The battle taking shape in Wadley Farms, a neighborhood in unincorporated Adams County just 11 miles north of the State Capitol in Denver, is yet another battle in the Colorado war over suburban oil-and-gas drilling on the Front Range. And it’s another one being fought on one side by Coloradans motivated, not by strong feelings…