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Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette on March 25, 2014 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Rep. Diana DeGette ‘not talking’ about her 2020 primary

WASHINGTON — Diana DeGette doesn’t want to discuss her 2020 primary. Not yet, anyway. “You know, I’m not talking about that right now,” the...

Crisanta Duran rethinking 2020 Senate bid, eyeing possible primary against Diana DeGette

Editor's note: Two days after this story was published, Crisanta Duran announced she is running for Congress. You can watch her announcement video here. Former...
Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area. Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette's wildnerness bill, which passed out of the U.S. House on Feb. 12, 2020, would designate 660,000 more acres of wilderness in Colorado, including land in the Handies Peak, Dolores River Canyon and Little Book Cliffs.(Photo by Bob Wick, BLM, via Flickr: Creative Commons.)

Massive Colorado wilderness bill clears U.S. House despite GOP opposition

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats approved legislation Wednesday that would place permanent wilderness protections on more than 660,000 acres of land in Colorado.  The bill...
A BLM intern works to identify idle oil wells and urge operators to either put them back in production or plug them permanently. Abandoned oil and gas wells can be pathways for methane to leak into the atmosphere. (Photo courtesy of Bureau of Land Management)

Colorado Congresswoman DeGette aims to force Trump’s hand on methane rules

WASHINGTON — Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) is pushing legislation that would reverse some of the Trump administration’s oil and gas policies on federal lands.  The...
Gov. Jared Polis announced Colorado's first two cases of coronavirus in Colorado on March 5, 2020. As of Friday, March 27, tyhe state was up to more than 1,700 cases with 31 deaths. (Photo by John Herrick)

March Updates: COVID-19 in Colorado Regular updates for the month COVID-19 began to spread...

The story was originally published on March 5, when Colorado health officials announced the first two diagnosed cased of COVID-19 in Colorado. The story...

Littwin: Duran shocks the Colorado political world, but maybe not in way she was...

I can safely predict that Crisanta Duran’s decision not to jump into the Democratic Senate primary — and instead primary Diana DeGette in the...
Photo of Alice Madden from Alice Madden for Senate Facebook page.

Littwin: Big day in Colorado for establishment Dems, the Hick effect and power of...

There were a couple of major stories in Colorado Democratic politics Friday, and, in both cases, old-school Dems easily won the day. They left...
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 08: House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) speaks during a mark-up hearing before its members voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for not providing an un-redacted copy of special prosecutor Robert Mueller's report in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill May 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Colorado’s DeGette and Neguse: ‘It is time’ for impeachment inquiry The two representatives say...

WASHINGTON -- Colorado representatives are among U.S. House lawmakers pushing for an inquiry into impeaching President Donald Trump as congressional Democrats grow increasingly frustrated...
Idrissa Camara, an aide at a Pueblo home for disabled people, volunteered for solitary confinement at the Aurora detention center. The experience, he says, brought him close to ending his life. Photo by Bryan Kelsen

GEO-run Aurora ICE Detention Center is isolating immigrants – some mentally ill – in...

The former ICE detainee agreed to talk under one condition: That he be called “Elvis.” The Salvadoran with a pompadour and an “I’d rather be...
Scenery at Colorado National Monument, USA - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

Lawmakers grill Trump official on plan to shift BLM HQ to Colorado 

WASHINGTON — The head of the Bureau of Land Management today defended the Trump administration’s plans to close the agency’s Washington, D.C., office and...
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