One to watch: University of Colorado regents elections
Few races better encapsulate the core themes of the 2014 Colorado election cycle, including Tea Party politics in education and the state’s rapidly shifting...
EPA to Senator Inhofe: Sorry, yes, we will be looking into fracking and water...
One of the oil-and-gas industry's top champions on Capitol Hill and one of the country's most high-profile climate science deniers has been handed a defeat by the Environmental Protection Agency. It is going forward with its fracking study.
Statetap: Colorado’s edible complex
At a long and heated public policy hearing in Denver, the proposed all-out ban on pot-edibles in the state was met with outcry bordering on panic, before it was swiftly retracted.
Wiretap: Snowden wants an open trial, Ellsberg style
"I've told the government again and again that if they’re prepared to offer an open trial, a fair trial, and I’m allowed to make my case to the jury, I would love to do so. But they’ve declined."
Again: A Denver sheriff’s deputy, a homeless man and a Taser
A Denver sheriff's deputy attempted to use a Taser on an apparent vagrant the same morning a jury slapped the city with an historic penalty in the death of a homeless man Tasered by deputies at the city jail.
Recalled Sen. Morse joins move to support Colorado ‘gun sense’ candidates
Just over a year ago, state Senate President John Morse was recalled from his Colorado Springs seat for playing a leading role in passing...
Statetap: Plugging a mine; plugging for Udall
State workers stopped up an abandoned mine that spews toxic heavy metals into the Peru Creek — a tributary of Snake River which ends up in Dillon Reservoir — in Summit County last week. Will the work finally stop the spewing?
Wiretap: A ‘dark day for democracy’ in Texas
"If voters can't be protected after findings of intentional racial discrimination and a permanent injunction in a case where there was a year of discovery, nine days of trial and a comprehensive District Court opinion, when will they be?"
DemocracyNow! on Colorado’s top two election races, featuring Mike Littwin
Colorado politics is U.S. politics in miniature and not at all pleasant. Yet! Littwin and Goodman manage to make the state of affairs interesting and entertaining.
DemocracyNow! on Marvin Booker, featuring Susan Greene
DemocracyNow! host Amy Goodman this morning spoke with Pastor Reginald Holmes and Colorado Independent Editor Susan Greene on the historic excessive-force verdict handed down against Denver on Tuesday.