Elected officials, candidates back Colorado initiative to up minimum wage to $12 and hour
With housing and health care costs skyrocketing out of control on Colorado’s Western Slope, some lawmakers and political candidates are backing Initiative 101 as a way to provide some relief…
FedEx Ground sends Colorado-based driver to National Truck Driving Championships
Matthew Allison, driver of Commerce City, Colo.-based Grounded, is representing FedEx Ground in the National Truck Driving Championships (NTDC) in Indianapolis Aug. 10-13. Allison earned the right to compete in…
Bennet poised to float Senate version of Polis wilderness bill, adding Camp Hale
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet hopes to “as soon as possible” introduce a Senate version of the Continental Divide Wilderness and Recreation Act floated in the House by U.S. Rep. Jared…
Some Jews just accept anti-Semitism, says former congressional candidate Beinstein
Some Jews just accept anti-Semitism Carbondale law-school graduate, temporarily lapsed Republican and soundly trounced candidate for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District Alex Beinstein knows that his withdrawal from the GOP in…
Western Slope Bernie-backer insists Sanders is still in hunt for White House
Michael Gibson isn’t headed to Philadelphia next week for the Democratic National Convention. As a Bernie 2016 field organizer for Western Colorado, Gibson’s presidential candidate all but threw in the…
Green Party Senate candidate Menconi rejects spoiler label
Former Eagle County commissioner and snowboard nonprofit founder Arn Menconi isn’t afraid of a little conflict — it’s the big ones he has a problem with — and he’s willing…
Shifting attitudes on climate issues impacting Colorado, national political debate
Coloradans care about climate change, surveys say, and analysts point out that politicians seeking congressional seats or the White House ignore the issue at their own peril in this critical…
Ballot battle over grocery store beer, wine sales averted
A compromise bill to allow the gradual sales of full-strength wine and beer in Colorado grocery stores and avoid a costly ballot initiative battle to speed up the process has…
U.S. Rep. Polis calls Orlando massacre an ‘act of terror against all Americans’
In the wake of the nation’s deadliest mass shooting in Orlando on Sunday, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, an openly gay Boulder Democrat who represents Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District, decried the…
Governor signs bill to gradually allow full-strength beer, wines sales in grocery stores
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper late last week signed a pair of bills into law that will change how people get their buzz on in the state, including one that will…
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