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This story was originally published by Marion Hourdequin, a Colorado College professor specializing in environmental philosophy, on The Conversation on September 18, 2019.
Even if...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to confirm David Bernhardt, a former lobbyist and George W. Bush administration official, to become the next...
WASHINGTON - President Trump’s pick to become the next head of the Interior Department intends to stop recusing himself from matters involving his former...
Denver City Council members say that freebies from the city don't sway their decision-making. Still, recent criticism about some of them accepting $10,000 plane...
This may be, as the kids say, when everything just got real, even as the Trump-Russia story grows increasingly unreal.
On three consecutive days, The...
A handful of Senate Republicans are openly questioning the repeal-and-delay tactic on Obamacare. The question is whether there are enough of them who will...
Colorado is not a state with a tradition of scandal-scarred government. Its governors don't tumble from power in disgrace, and indictments of lawmakers and...
Elbert County Commissioner Robert Rowland, and his fellow commissioners, could find themselves back in court sooner rather than later.
This morning, Jill Duvall, who launched...