Republicans are crying foul over campaign finance decisions by a deputy secretary of state who rejected recommendations by the Campaign Finance Enforcement team organized a year ago by Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat. A record number of complaints were filed in 2020 along with the second highest fine issued in recent years. But […]
Colorado Stop the Wolf Coalition
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“We knew it would be tight”: Colorado wolf reintroduction riding on razor-thin vote margin
The tightest statewide race of the 2020 election in Colorado was about wolves. As counties meticulously counted dense ballots on Wednesday, Proposition 114 remained close, hovering, at points, within hundreds of votes of an automatic recount. The measure that would task Colorado Parks and Wildlife with creating a gray wolf reintroduction plan by the end […]
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Proposition 114 explained: What’s at stake with the effort to reintroduce gray wolves in Colorado
There are gray wolves to the north and gray wolves to the south. Colorado voters will decide in November whether the roaming predators should have a home in the middle of the country. Proposition 114 asks voters to direct Colorado Parks and Wildlife to reintroduce wolves in western Colorado beginning in 2023. The idea is […]
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Colorado election officials take aggressive new approach to policing campaign violations
A new enforcement division at the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office is reviewing campaign finance filings and taking action against possible violations. It’s a sharp change from a system in prior administrations that required the public to file complaints about suspected violations of state law. The more aggressive approach is drawing criticism from some observers […]
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Wolf supporters say they gathered 200,000 signatures, enough for reintroduction question on 2020 ballot
The fight to return wolves to Colorado’s West Slope begins now. With wolf pack supporters planning on Tuesday to submit more than 208,000 signatures supporting a November 2020 ballot measure calling for the reintroduction of wolves to Colorado, voters could soon hear a pitched howling over wolves for most of next year. “This is our […]
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Colorado question pitting ranchers vs. wolf advocates is heading for supermarket parking lots
Wolf fans will be howling outside Front Range grocery stores soon, hoping to seed a new predator in Colorado’s Western Slope. The Colorado Secretary of State on Friday approved a petition seeking signatures to land a wolf reintroduction proposal on the November 2020 ballot. Wolf supporters will need 124,632 signatures by Dec. 13 to put […]
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Colorado wildlife officials are reluctant to OK gray wolf reintroduction. So advocates want voters to do it.
After 40 years of battling to restore wolf populations in the Southwest, Northern Rockies and Great Lakes states, the legal, political and biological war for wolves is coming to Colorado. But this time it could be voters — not federal and state wildlife managers — pushing the only state in the Rocky Mountains without wolves […]