Tag: Republicans
What you need to know about efforts to redistrict Colorado
You pull out your November ballot and read over several measures about redistricting congressional and legislative districts. Your eyes glaze over. Can you unpack...
Littwin: Rubio fails. Can the GOP stop Trump’s ‘thugocracy?’
The question now isn't whether Republicans should finally take a stand against Donald Trump, but how.
Obviously Mitt wasn't the answer.
And little Marco wasn't the...
Ethics Commission reform survives Republican ‘no’ votes
A bill to clean up the state Independent Ethics Commission narrowly passed its first committee hearing Tuesday, despite opposition from Republicans and commission chair Bill Leone.
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Ken Buck opposes naming a post office after Maya Angelou
Poet Maya Angelou's face may already grace a U.S. postal stamp, but should she have a North Carolina post office named after her too? A...
What’s Colorado’s hospital provider fee, who cares and why?
This year, three words have dominated the political debate under the gold dome of the Colorado Capitol: Hospital Provider Fee. It's become a political battle, a legal battle,...
Littwin: Why the GOP fears Obama filling Scalia’s SCOTUS seat
So let the jiggery-pokery -- in the famous words of Justice Antonin Scalia -- begin.
Actually, we're a little late. The jiggery and the pokery...
Can a Democrat pass a rural jobs bill in Colorado?
When Gov. John Hickenlooper boasts about Colorado’s strong economy, rural lawmakers say that only applies to the I-25 corridor -- not to rural communities...
Wiretap: Low blows and dirty tricks mark South Carolina’s GOP race
Dirty politics
Welcome to South Carolina, where dirty tricks and brawling are how they play the game in Republican primary politics. As Lindsey Graham put...
How the GOP is trying to outlaw abortion — even after...
Colorado Republicans have long waged battles against government funded contraception and abortion. This legislative session promises to be no different.
Months after a shooting that left three...
Colorado House Dems praise Roe vs. Wade. Republicans storm out
Roughly two dozen Colorado House Democrats took to the floor to recognize the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision....