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2018 General Election

The Home Front: Court fight over policy to police pot doctors was ‘hidden from...

"A lawsuit that accused Colorado regulators of quietly and illegally concocting a policy to police doctors who recommend medical marijuana to patients was entirely...
Photo by Chris Potter for Creative Commons on Flickr.

In Colorado, Democrats see a strong money haul as GOP relies on super PACs

Call Wednesday’s filing deadline the calm-before-the-general-election storm — the first time candidates and campaigns had to show the public their books since the June...

Campaign finance primer: What do “soft,” “hard” and “dark money” actually mean?

Dark money. Soft money. Hard money. When it comes to campaign cash, it's complicated. So, as the 2018 election cycle heats up, here’s some clarification...
Oil and gas development in new housing subdivision on Collier's Hill. (Photo by Ted Wood/The Story Group.)

Colorado oil and gas industry prepares for battle at the ballot box as production...

Oil and gas companies in Colorado are on track to reach record production levels this year. But when industry representatives gathered on the top...

Littwin: Stapleton must wish his KKK-stained great-grandfather was his biggest problem

It had to happen. Denver’s KKK-stained history has gone national. A New York Times story Tuesday, written by the excellent Julie Turkewitz,  questions whether...

Colorado campaign finance loophole allows dark money flyers

Voters in two key state Senate districts recently received flyers praising GOP Sens. Beth Martinez Humenik and Tim Neville for their work in the state...

Walker Stapleton chose lawmaker Lang Sias as his running mate. Here’s what that means.

Against a backdrop of military fighter jets in a Denver aerospace museum, State Treasurer Walker Stapleton revealed Republican lawmaker Lang Sias, a former Top...

Jared Polis taps former Broomfield Rep. Dianne Primavera as running mate

Jared Polis has chosen as his gubernatorial running mate Dianne Primavera, former Broomfield state legislator and current CEO of Susan G. Komen Colorado. The Twitter...

6 takeaways from Colorado’s post-election voter data

More than 1.1 million voters cast ballots in Colorado’s midterm election Tuesday night, or roughly 35 percent of the state’s active voting population. For...

It’s a squeaker! Democratic Attorney General’s race shows Weiser slightly ahead of Salazar

More than 24 hours after polls closed and as the last ballots are being counted, University of Colorado law professor Phil Weiser maintains a...
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