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Everyone knew, and many predicted, that the recall-Polis effort would end not just in failure, but in spectacular failure.
But what I didn’t predict —...
Editor's note: With an 18-17 vote, the Senate Thursday afternoon narrowly passed Colorado's controversial red-flag bill, would allow police to temporarily confiscate a person’s firearms...
Update: Thompson board member Bryce Carlson announced on Friday he would not run for a second term. His statement is below.
Wanted: Someone, anyone to...
The group organizing a recall against state Rep. JoAnn Windholz told The Colorado Independent today they plan to drop their effort.
Instead they will focus on...
The Independence Institute, Americans for Prosperity and other conservative groups sank hundreds of thousands of dollars into the 2015 school board races and ended...
A campaign is underway to recall Rep. JoAnn Windholz, R-Commerce City, who stirred up national ire after blaming Planned Parenthood, rather than the shooter,...
Voters in three school board districts sent a powerful message Tuesday night to conservative billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, Americans for Prosperity and...
Tuesday, the libertarian Independence Institute released a video that accused recall supporters of bullying the special-needs son of Jefferson County Board of Education member Julie...