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Colorado’s final election 2018 results are even worse for Republicans

Democrat Jared Polis won the governor's race over Republican Walker Stapleton by about 10 points

Top Stories

A Crested Butte adventurer is skiing to the South Pole like ice is an endangered species

By Jason Blevins Coloradans Primary category in which blog post is published

Colorado votes 8-0 to join California’s low-emission vehicle standard

By Tamara Chuang Business Primary category in which blog post is published

Morrissey: The Colorado GOP’s seven stages of grief

By Jim Morrissey

District attorney calls for updated laws after Colorado appeals court overturns man’s conviction of sexually assaulting foster child

By Jesse Paul Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published

A haircut, a wound check, a bath for the dog: One-stop Denver delivery of homeless services reveals the depth and breadth of urban transience

By Jennifer Brown Coloradans Primary category in which blog post is published

Gov. John Hickenlooper presents his last Colorado budget request

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Excerpt: “The Last Stand of the Pack: Critical Edition” furthers the case for reintroducing wolves in Colorado

In this epilogue, co-editor Andrew Gulliford builds on Arthur Carhart's groundbreaking work addressing a longstanding controversy

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Interview: “The Last Stand of the Pack” co-editor Andrew Gulliford views writing on wolves an “ecological necessity”

Decades after the last known wolf in Colorado was killed, the controversy over reintroduction rages on

What’d I Miss? wonders why you’d get in a car with a stranger

Were the good ol' days all that good before GPS tracking?

Opinion
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Here’s why Colorado’s unaffiliated voters overwhelmingly picked Democrats in 2018. The story starts with Donald Trump.

Four in 10 unaffiliated voters polled by Magellan Strategies said a vote for Democrat Jared Polis in the governor’s race was a statement against President Donald Trump

Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published

How a movie about Gary Hart will make you rethink modern politics (and the media)

An interview with Jason Reitman, Matt Bai and Jay Carson, the writers behind the movie “The Front Runner,” about “the week America went tabloid”

Environment Primary category in which blog post is published

Coloradans produced a record 9.3 million tons of trash last year. Only 12 percent of it was recycled.

Colorado's recycling rate has flat lined at about a third of the national average

Environment Primary category in which blog post is published

Dozens plead with Trump administration to keep methane rules at one-and-done hearing in Denver

Opponents argued Wednesday that changing the rules would threaten people's health, worsen climate change and squander natural gas by allowing leaks to go undetected

Environment Primary category in which blog post is published

The Trump administration is holding its only hearing on rollback of methane rules Wednesday in Denver

Nearly 125 people have asked to speak at the daylong EPA session

Health Primary category in which blog post is published

Colorado set up its mental health crisis system four years ago in response to a mass shooting. It’s about to transform.

State officials say the transformation will increase services and improve mobile response. But the contractors running the system since it began predict uncoordinated “hodgepodge.”

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