Military command casts broad net with homeland security operations
A recent article by The Colorado Independent reported that the U.S. Northern Command, a military entity created in 2002 for homeland defense missions and based in Colorado Springs, plans to activate and train an estimated 4,700 service members for specialized domestic operations inside the United States.
Vail Realtor just says ‘no’ to Democratic riff-raff
A Republican realtor in Vail sent out an e-mail to the Vail Board of Realtors membership this week urging a GOP boycott of a local newspaper, the Vail Daily, because of its “biased coverage of the local races,” which she felt led to a nearly clean sweep by Democrats in Tuesday’s election. She also encouraged realtors to support the more conservative Vail Mountaineer.
‘Eggmendment’ backers go national, vow to target every petition state
Despite a crushing defeat at the ballot box in Colorado on Tuesday, supporters of Amendment 48, the so-called "Personhood" Amendment, aren't "taking the loss personally," and have launched plans to take the fight to 16 more states, according to an anti-abortion news site and a Web site established by the group. The measure would have defined a fertilized egg as a person. It was widely seen as an end run around Roe v. Wade in an attempt to outlaw abortion, but opponents said it would also ban most forms of contraception.
Amendment 46 to repeal affirmative action loses despite hefty odds
After a two day post-election limbo, Colorado's Amendment 46 failed yesterday on a slim margin. The so-called Colorado Civil Rights Initiative is the first anti-affirmative action amendment propped by California businessman Ward Connerly to make it onto a state ballot and flop.
The significance is not lost on Amendment 46's detractors. "I am thrilled," says Melissa Hart, a University of Colorado law professor who co-ran the Vote No on 46 campaign. "Given that everyone kept telling us we couldn't do it, it is exciting that we did."
Obama victory stokes tensions in tiny, fictional Colorado town of South Park
It wasn't all sweetness and celebration Tuesday night when networks declared Barack Obama had passed 270 electoral votes and would be the 44th president of the United States, at least according to this clip, part of a show set in the tiny — if fictional — Colorado town of South Park, first broadcast Wednesday night on Comedy Central.
Garfield County Dems lament energy-industry influence in local races
John Martin was a cop the last time an energy boom went bust in Garfield County. The Republican county commissioner who was reelected by a scant 350-vote margin Tuesday says those were dark days in the 1980s, and he’s determined not to repeat them.
Two more states go ‘green’ as Mass., Mich. ease marijuana laws
In results that underline a national trend, Massachusetts and Michigan voters approved easing marijuana laws on Tuesday.
Gardner vs. Gardner: Lawmaker whips up ire over state GOP caucus vote
A Colorado Springs legislator complained to the state House Republican Caucus on Thursday that he'd been sucker-punched when a "multidimensional, or even multiambitional chess game" went awry and his co-conspirators backed off plans to challenge their party's sitting leadership.
Colorado State University ‘shocked’ by Penley resignation
A day after Colorado State University President Larry Penley suddenly resigned after five years of leading the state's second-largest public university, the general mood among campus and community leaders was shock.
Results for tight state Senate race may take weeks
Voters in Arapahoe County may have to wait until the end of the month to find out who their state senator is, as officials in their suburban district south of Denver scramble to tally and confirm mail-in election results in a tight race between Republican Lauri Clapp and Democrat Linda Newell.