ICYMI: Behind every hard-charging U.S. senator…
…is another U.S. senator who’d just as soon be the class clown. This tweet, by Fox News’ Meghan McCain (daughter of Arizona Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain – the prankster-at-large in this pic), has made the rounds of the Twitter-sphere several times since Friday’s inaugural festivities. Given that Colorado’s own Sen. Cory Gardner is at the center of it all – and is the butt of the joke – how could we resist reprising it here? FYI, Gardner is the horned one in the middle of the frame:
The grift at the core of Colorado ed department’s ‘innovation programs’ | Paula Noonan
Paula Noonan
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Updated 10 hours ago
Colorado’s K-12 school finance, transparency and accountability systems have urgent, connected problems with a slow-motion state response. Money is spilling out of school finance funds to home-schooled and private-school students. This multi-million-dollar flood of funds to cooked-up micro schools, home-school...
‘Second look’ bill would cause lasting harm to crime’s victims | OPINION
Colorado Politics
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Updated 10 hours ago
By Robert Fallbeck Senate Bill 26-115, being considered by lawmakers in the current legislative session, seeks to allow re-sentencing (aka a “second look”) of inmates who have served 20 calendar years in the Colorado Department of Correction (DOC) for two...
Colorado cannot afford to get the Colorado River wrong | OPINION
Colorado Politics
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Updated 9 hours ago
By Larry Don Suckla Colorado and our neighboring states are standing on the edge of a crisis that is no longer theoretical. The Colorado River, the lifeline of the American west, is facing conditions that demand immediate, responsible action. If...
Colorado state legislators must recognize EMS is essential | OPINION
Colorado Politics
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Updated 9 hours ago
By Dusty A. Johnson Currently, emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians such as EMTs and paramedics are not listed as essential in Colorado, and that is not OK. A few weeks ago, the Colorado House of Representatives unambiguously passed a bill...
9 Colorado hospitals at risk of closing due to Medicaid cuts
Nico Brambila
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Updated 31 minutes ago
The $900 billion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade could threaten the viability of more than 400 hospitals nationally and at least nine in Colorado, a new report has found. The hospitals span the Front Range and rural communities,...
Lakewood mayor calls for unity, community in State of the City speech
Sage Kelley
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Updated 21 minutes ago
Lakewood held its first State of the City address since 2018 on Wednesday — timing Mayor Wendi Strom attributed to fate. “We got bumped a few times on dates,” Strom said to a room of nearly 100 residents and officials....
Colorado Senate reworks key programs, gives preliminary nod to $46B budget
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 11 minutes ago
With the Senate’s traditional Budget Day barbecue setting a lighter tone, lawmakers worked through the $46.8 billion state budget Wednesday, navigating a long list of amendments but avoiding the partisan clashes that defined the House debate last week. The Senate...
Colorado budget plan seeks to keep $306 million by canceling TABOR refunds
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 30 minutes ago
Tucked deep within the hundreds of pages of the proposed $46.8 billion 2026–27 state budget is a line item showing $306.1 million in savings — achieved by canceling Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights refunds. Gov. Jared Polis has recommended withholding TABOR...
Can you dig it? Everyone was psyched for the groovy Arts for All Gala | NONPROFIT REGISTER
Joanne Davidson Special to Colorado Politics
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Updated 17 hours ago
ARVADA CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES Arvada News: Between the sequined mini dresses, platform shoes, go-go boots, paisley prints and bell-bottom pants, the 350 guests at the Arvada Center’s 1970s-themed Arts for All Gala clearly were “right on” in selecting what to wear for a “groovy” night of disco-infused fundraising. “Some of you look like you...
RTD lays off two dozen managers
Scott Weiser
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Updated 19 minutes ago
More than two dozen managers at the Regional Transportation District learned in March that their jobs would be eliminated, with their last day of work set for July 2. That’s according to documents provided to The Denver Gazette by an...