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Springs mayor race gets complicated

  Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who has said he's considering a run for mayor of Colorado Springs, will have competition from El Paso County...

NextGen targets Gardner-Koch Brother ties

  Seizing upon conversations leaked to the media this week from a secretive Southern California fundraising retreat, environmental politics group NextGen Climate released a Web...

Meanwhile, the fracking wars continue in Pennsylvania

  Fracking, of course, is not just a Colorado enterprise. And one of the major sticking points for the Great Fracking War Compromise was that...

New Belgium’s new release is not beer, it’s politics

  Raise a glass to New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins, Colo. for their newest venture (though before you get too excited, know that it...

Union campaign’s Labor Day launch

  The role of labor unions, in addition to raising the minimum wage, may become a feature of Colorado's midterm elections after a blistering new report from the Colorado...

Hick pulls trick shot

Gov. John Hickenlooper has a particular talent for goofy, memorable campaign videos, the latest being a spin-off of a clever Republican Governor’s Association attack ad and a mildly self deprecating spin on his own policy maneuvering.

Udall campaign pivots to NSA and privacy

  Remember a few weeks ago when we considered how little online privacy was coming up in the hot, heavy and increasingly nasty U.S. Senate race...

Flattery: Karl Rove tweaked our reporting for a Crossroads ad

Let's play a fun game, what single word makes these two sentences different? "On the eastern plains, patients now outnumber their doctors 5,000 to one." "On...

Now, GOP Rep. Mark Waller rips would-be House Krazy Klingenschmitt. Who’s next?

  Former House Minority Leader Mark Waller called Gordon Klingenschmitt's anti-gay tirade against Jared Polis "hateful speech." In fact, he told Colorado Community Media that...

Hempy rolls into Gov’s race with timely campaign finance ad

  It's not just incumbent John Hickenlooper and Republican Bob Beauprez, Harry Hempy is running for governor too. Today he released a little video explaining...
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