iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Colorado Politics

Gessler Taps Auditor To Examine Spending At Heart Of Ethics Complaint

The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 05.22.2013 | Denver

From The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic. Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler appears to have had himself audited. In a witness list h...

Ken Buck Says His Cancer Has Gone Into Remission

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 05.21.2013 | Denver

Weld County District Attorney and former U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck announced on his official Facebook page that his cancer has gone into remissio...

Democrats Strike Back At GOP Voting Measures

AP | IVAN MORENO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI | Posted 05.21.2013 | Denver

DENVER -- In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register...

Governor Gessler?

Posted 05.17.2013 | Denver

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is the latest Republican rumored to be interested in challenging Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper in 20...

Colorado Medicaid Expansion Signed Into Law

AP | By IVAN MORENO | Posted 05.14.2013 | Denver

DENVER (AP) — An expansion of Medicaid eligibility that's expected to add 160,000 adults to public health care assistance in Colorado was signed int...

Why No Agreement on Criminalizing Reckless Acts Against Pregnant Women?

Jason Salzman | Posted 05.13.2013 | Denver
Jason Salzman

You might think all sides of the abortion debate could get behind legislation making it a crime for a drunken driver to hit a pregnant woman and kill her baby-to-be, but think again.

State Lawmakers Advance Crimes Against Pregnant Women Act

Posted 05.03.2013 | Denver

A bill that would allow prosecutors to punish criminals who harm an unborn child during a crime received final approval by state lawmakers on Friday a...

Gov.: 'I Am Constantly Attacked For Being In The Pocket Of Oil And Gas'

The Boulder Daily Camera | JOE RUBINO | Posted 05.03.2013 | Denver

Gov. John Hickenlooper has been a lightning rod for the controversy surrounding oil and gas production in Colorado, specifically the industry's use of...

Election Reform Bill: It's Scott Gessler vs. 75 Percent Of County Clerks

The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 05.01.2013 | Denver

From The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic. DENVER — Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler arrived late to testify at the Se...

Renewable Energy Measure Advances In Colorado House

AP | By KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 05.01.2013 | Denver

DENVER (AP) — Rural Coloradans will see higher renewable energy requirements from their utilities, but not as high as their urban counterparts, unde...

Label-Loving Congressman Suddenly Hates Labels

Jason Salzman | Posted 04.24.2013 | Denver
Jason Salzman

There's a desperate quality to Mike Coffman's actions these days, typified by his No-Labels maneuver, and with any luck it will be fully dissected by reporters the 2014 election nears.

Colorado Bill Would Allow Dead People To Vote, Group Warns

The Huffington Post | Will Wrigley | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics

A conservative Colorado political organization sent photoshopped mailers warning that "felons, illegal aliens" and the dead could vote under a voting ...

Boulder's First Civil Unions To Come With Cake, DJ

The Boulder Daily Camera | Charlie Brennan | Posted 04.13.2013 | Denver

Advocates for those seeking civil unions in the first moments that legal recognition of same-sex commitments takes effect in Colorado are well under w...

Gun Control Finds Unlikely Savior Close To GOP Heart

Howard Fineman | Posted 04.04.2013 | Politics
Howard Fineman

WASHINGTON -- Let's hear a round of applause for the Founding Fathers, those dead white men whom conservatives love to lionize. Had it not been for th...

Udall Touts Wind Power In Boulder Visit

The Boulder Daily Camera | Erica Meltzer | Posted 03.31.2013 | Denver

Wind technology has nearly unlimited potential, and the United States needs a long-term policy to support the industry and keep the county competitive...

Why Colorado Lags In The Race To Clean Up Elections

Denver iJournal | David O. Williams | Posted 03.28.2013 | Denver

From Denver iJournal's David O. Williams. Colorado’s Democrat-dominated state legislature is hammering out new laws on everything from guns to ci...

Colorado Women Want Women to Run

Pat Waak | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics
Pat Waak

Inside and outside the political parties, women are the movers and shakers from the local to the national level. They provide the special connection to the voters that have moved the State of Colorado forward in its politics.

Colorado Lawmakers Wouldn't Agree To This Gun Ban

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 03.25.2013 | College

Colorado tightened its gun laws last week when Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) signed three bills that limit ammunition magazines, require universal backgr...

Colo. Death Penalty Repeal Hearing Marked By Emotional Testimony

The Colorado Independent | Susan Greene | Posted 03.20.2013 | Denver

From The Colorado Independent's Susan Greene. DENVER— Lawmakers considering a bill that would end capital punishment in Colorado heard 10 hours o...

LOOK: Newspaper Defends Running Lawmaker's Gay Kiss On Front Page

Posted 03.14.2013 | Gay Voices

A photograph of Colorado House Speaker Mark Ferrandino is the subject of local debate. The shot, which appeared in The Denver Post, shows Ferrandi...

Ken Buck Announces He's Fighting Cancer

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 03.11.2013 | Denver

Weld County District Attorney and former U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck announced on his official Facebook page that he's getting treatment for lympho...

Drone Filibuster Overtaken by Gun Debate in Colorado

David Dent | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics
David Dent

You can't view gun control through the easy red-blue lens in Colorado, reflecting the purple wave in partisan logic in many corners of the state where both parties appear to be losing solid blocks of support. The emerging portrait indicates that Colorado will easily remain a swing state in 2016.

Denver Post Publisher Says Colorado Republican Party Is "Dead"

Jason Salzman | Posted 05.08.2013 | Denver
Jason Salzman

I can see the veins popping out on the necks of conservatives when they hear that Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton thinks the Republican Party is "dead in Colorado."

Udall Endorses Brennan, But Says He'll Hold Him To 'Promises'

The Colorado Independent | John Tomasic | Posted 03.07.2013 | Denver

From The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic. In the wake of an historic Senate filibuster over the murky U.S. laws governing drone strikes, Colora...

Matt Ferner

Sirota Moderates Discussion On Campaign Finance Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Ferner | Posted 03.07.2013 | Denver

Political columnist and former Denver radio personality David Sirota is back in Denver moderating a panel on campaign finance reform in his first publ...