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Posted inOpinion Columns

Littwin: Now that the recount is over, look for Boebert to get back to her provocative roots

by Mike Littwin 3:03 AM MST on Dec 14, 20222:10 PM MST on Dec 13, 2022

Lauren Boebert can’t be happy watching Ye, Musk and Greene grabbing all the headlines for their nonstop series of outrages

Posted inOpinion Columns

Nicolais: Boot Barn shout-fest is all that is left of the Colorado GOP

by Mario Nicolais 3:03 AM MST on Dec 4, 202211:03 AM MST on Dec 3, 2022

Conspiracy-fueled, far-right extremists epitomize a party that has cannibalized its own election cycle after election cycle

Posted inOpinion Columns

Littwin: Trump gives GOP leaders yet another chance to break with him. Why will so few take it?

by Mike Littwin 3:03 AM MST on Nov 30, 20222:10 PM MST on Dec 1, 2022

Mike Pence makes news, saying Trump should apologize after dinner with Ye (Kanye West) and Holocaust denier. But why stop there?

Posted inOpinion Columns

Littwin: As Trump prepares to run again in 2024, is the GOP prepared to doom itself again?

by Mike Littwin 3:02 AM MST on Nov 16, 20222:15 PM MST on Dec 1, 2022

Columnist Mike Littwin writes that Republicans have had plenty of chances to dump Trump. The question is whether they can summon the courage to do it this time.

Door to the Colorado Senate with lawmakers standing by it
Posted inElection 2022

Democrats will keep their majority in the Colorado state Senate, blocking GOP foothold at Capitol

by Elliott Wenzler, Jesse Paul and Sandra Fish 11:12 PM MST on Nov 8, 20221:54 PM MST on Nov 9, 2022

Democrats were poised to win all seven competitive state Senate races this year in a drubbing of the GOP

Posted inOpinion Columns

Littwin: Joe O’Dea is not just running against Michael Bennet. He’s also made Colorado a 2024 GOP battleground.

by Mike Littwin 3:06 AM MDT on Oct 26, 20221:13 PM MDT on Oct 25, 2022

Trump tells his MAGA base not to vote for the GOP Senate candidate. DeSantis says the base should back O’Dea. And so it begins.

Posted inPolitics and Government

Heidi Ganahl says Colorado’s inflation rate is 16% and the highest in the U.S. Both claims require many asterisks.

by Tamara Chuang 3:24 AM MDT on Oct 24, 20228:03 AM MDT on Oct 25, 2022

Ganahl cited a Republican-led analysis to reach that 16% figure. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts inflation at 7.7%. Here’s where the discrepancy comes from.

Posted inOpinion Columns

Nicolais: Ballot box watching events are unnecessary, anti-democratic and dangerous

by Mario Nicolais 3:03 AM MDT on Oct 23, 20223:38 PM MDT on Oct 22, 2022

Whipped into action by the violent rhetoric of Joe Oltmann, conspiracy theorists have begun staking out drop boxes in Colorado

Posted inOpinion Columns

Nicolais: Is Michael Bennet vs. Joe O’Dea the “best” race in Colorado?

by Mario Nicolais 3:03 AM MDT on Oct 9, 20227:28 AM MDT on Oct 9, 2022

While the horse race doesn’t look particularly close, the two policy-oriented candidates present the kind of choice we should hope for in Colorado

Posted inElection 2022

Meet the Colorado rancher spending $11 million — and counting — to prevent Jared Polis from winning reelection

by Jesse Paul 4:21 AM MDT on Sep 18, 202210:24 AM MDT on Sep 19, 2022

Rancher Steve Wells is hoping to defeat Democrats in November by spending a portion of the fortune grown from allowing oil and gas drilling on his 40,000-acre spread in Weld County.

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