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The University of Colorado’s elected board of regents passed over applicants with more experience running universities and more distinguished careers when it hired conservative former...
It is a late Friday afternoon in early February and passengers at Gate 12 of Washington’s Reagan National Airport are displeased.
“Fucking United,” a lawyer-lobbyist...
Jared Polis has won Colorado’s Democratic primary for governor.
Polis, 43, is a five-term congressman from Boulder who, if elected in November’s general election, would...
The Colorado Independent has spent the past months interviewing each candidate, observing them on the campaign trail, digging into their records, and speaking with...
The Cary Kennedy for Governor campaign is headquartered near downtown Denver in a converted classroom of a restored, century-old red brick elementary school. The...
As political strategists tell it, voters typically remember no more than two things about people seeking public office.
Thing No. 1 about Donna Lynne: When...