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The Mix

News and analysis pulled from the rush

Littwin: GOP candidates drop to their knees for Donald Trump

Yesterday was the day when the #neverTrumpers came full tilt after the Donald, and if they didn't succeed in bringing him down this time, they...

Latino Dems blame Mike Coffman for Trump’s rise

  Democratic Latino leaders partially blame U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman for laying the ideological base for Donald Trump's "racist" platform. Coffman, who has endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio...

Ken Buck opposes naming a post office after Maya Angelou

  Poet Maya Angelou's face may already grace a U.S. postal stamp, but should she have a North Carolina post office named after her too? A...

Inmates use Colorado’s ‘Make My Day’ law to defend cells. Lawmakers object

Colorado lawmakers advanced a bill this week to tweak the state's "Make My Day" law so inmates couldn't use it to defend their jail cells. As...

A mother’s quest for police records on the death of her son

Rochelle Reynolds had lots of questions after her 25-year-old son, John, died following an early-morning encounter with police in the western Colorado town of...

Wiretap: Supreme Court weighs landmark Texas abortion case

Anti-abortion and reproductive-rights activists gathered outside the Supreme Court as justices heard a case that would determine whether Texas could whittle away at abortion rights. Court...

Would Al White beating Randy Baumgardner be a win for Democrats?

Republicans and Democrats for months have said control of the state Senate hinges on who wins Republican Sen. Laura Woods Arvada seat. Could the...

The Indy’s Corey Hutchins talks Colorado caucuses on Democracy Now!

Our very own Corey Hutchins has had a good couple of days. Yesterday, The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza named Corey one of the country's best...

Littwin: Romance takes a Super Tuesday beating as Trump rises

While you were out celebrating Super Tuesday, you may not have noticed that Bernie Sanders had called it a night before the caucusing in...

No love for DA candidate Kenneth Boyd in NE Denver precinct

Bernie Sanders’ younger voters and Hillary Clinton’s older voters in northeast Denver’s Precinct 807 united on one issue at last night’s Democratic caucus: Nobody...
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