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Chris Gates to head national watchdog group

  Chris Gates, former chairman of Colorado’s Democratic Party, has been named president of the Sunlight Foundation. The D.C.-based non-partisan, non-profit advocates for open government and...

Udall supporters keep Gardner reproductive rights hits rolling

  Two new anti-Cory Gardner for Senate ads this week follow up on last week's visit from Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards and an open letter...

Frustrated with board, JeffCo teachers look to state legislature

  Counties like Douglas and Jefferson in suburban Denver have become political flash points in local and state politics as conservative boards of education duel...

Two down, two to go in SOS Scott Gessler’s voter fraud manhunt

  Half the voter fraud cases prosecuted in Colorado have now been dropped before trial. Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler’s office has dismissed...

Reading between the lines

  Fighting over "could" or "will" and other joys of ballot wording. Peter Marcus at the Durango Herald walks readers through the squabbles over the language...

Women for Udall talk priorities — health care and voter mobilization

  A group of female business owners joined Congresswoman Diana DeGette and Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards at local woman-owned restaurant Fire on the Mountain...

Western Slope Club 20 debates kick-off final-stretch election campaigns

  The 61-year-old Western Slope advocacy group Club 20 is hosting its election-year candidate debates this weekend in Grand Junction. The event will draw a...

Aaaand another bid for Springs mayor

  Local economist Tom Binnings announced he too is considering a run for mayor of Colorado Springs. Via the Gazette. He's a senior partner at...

AP fact-checks Gardner claim that he helped launch green-energy economy

  How to demonstrate you're a new kind of Colorado Republican politician, that you're not the kind of old-school Republican pol who doesn't embrace full-range...

Udall, Bennet join with EPA to receive public comment on carbon

  Representatives of Democratic Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet joined with the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday in receiving 189,286 public comments from folks in...
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