Politics and Government
Colorado’s former U.S. attorney leaves high-powered law firm to explore run against Cory Gardner
Colorado’s former top federal law enforcement official, should he decide to run, would join a growing field of challengers to the first-term Republican senator. Walsh said he will make up his mind in April.
Top Stories
It’s been legal to drop off newborns in Colorado since 2000, so why aren’t suspicious infant deaths declining?
By Jennifer Brown Health Primary category in which blog post is published
How would new regulations impact the oil and gas industry in Colorado? Here’s what we know.
By John Frank Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published
Trump administration eases land restrictions meant to protect the sage grouse
By The Associated Press Environment Primary category in which blog post is published
These numbers describe Colorado’s economic outlook — and whether Polis will get full-day kindergarten
By John Frank Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado lawmakers are using the deadly Firestone explosion as a fulcrum for change — just as Erin Martinez wanted
Erin Martinez, whose husband and brother were killed in the 2017 Firestone home explosion, knew her tragedy would be politicized if she spoke out in support of Senate Bill 181. And the blast has become front and center in the bill's debate.
On your left! Here comes another attempt to get scooters off the sidewalks
Colorado law says electric scooters are toys, but that’s likely to change
Cory Gardner votes against blocking Trump’s emergency declaration to build border wall
The Colorado Republican has been refusing to say if he would support the resolution rebuking President Donald Trump, making him the focus of national speculation on how he would vote
The red flag bill again thrusts Colorado’s sheriffs into the gun debate — with legal questions, strong emotions and Facebook letters
More than a dozen county commissions have passed some type of resolution supporting Second Amendment rights, many of them declaring their counties “Second Amendment Sanctuaries"
Don’t like what state lawmakers do? Here’s how to recall a law in Colorado
Voters were last asked to overturn a law approved by the Colorado General Assembly in 1932. And it worked.
5,800 Colorado kids in second grade or younger were suspended last year. State lawmakers want to reduce that.
A coalition has worked for 3 years to modify a Colorado law they say disproportionately affects minority and disabled students. It took a deal with rural educators to move forward.
Colorado regulators OK forced pooling for controversial Broomfield drill site that prompted lawsuit
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission voted 5-1 to allow Extraction Oil & Gas Inc. to use a process called forced pooling to tap oil and gas belonging to several owners
Battle with business heats up over Colorado Democrats’ family-leave proposal
Senate Bill 188 passed its first committee hearing Wednesday on a 3-2, party-line vote
Cannabis lobby gains new clout in Colorado as its spending tripled in the past five years
The marijuana industry is counting on support from Gov. Jared Polis in a key legislative year
