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Polis, DeGette pleased to see Interior include Colorado areas in new...

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis Thursday said he hopes a new report from the Department of Interior highlighting 18 backcountry areas for conservation protection, including several in Colorado, will spark action by Congress “in spite of partisan gridlock elsewhere.”

Polis takes progressive health message to a conservative corner

EDWARDS — The question put to Congressman Jared Polis by a man at Wednesday’s health-care town hall in Edwards drew a loud cheer from the majority of clearly conservative mountain-dwellers feeling disenfranchised by the ultra-liberal freshman Democrat from Boulder.

Humor of Polis ‘Colbert Report’ segment lost on Post reporter

Apparently somebody forgot to tell the Denver Post that Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” on Comedy Central is satire. Initially acknowledging the “TV funnyman” is a...

Shafroth Hopes Personality Counts in 2nd CD Primary

Will Shafroth is relying on a lifetime of work for environmental causes to get him elected to Congress in Colorado's heavily Democratic 2nd District....

Tough, but Practical, Fitz-Gerald Got the Job Done

The Democrats at state Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald's retirement announcement Tuesday had plenty of things to say about her. But it was Republican Sen....

Jared Polis on Iraq, Amendment 41, Gay Rights: Interview II

Jared Polis worked on his first political campaign when he was 13 years old, his maturing voice cracking over the phone as he attempted...
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