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What matters to Colorado women ahead of momentous state elections | Paula Noonan

Updated 10 hours ago

Eight years have passed since Colorado has faced such a significant election season. Our choices now will set another eight years of our collective future....

Colorado’s other river problem | Hal Bidlack

Updated 2 days ago

Well, the legislative session is over, and my inbox is filled with notifications of the many, many bills Gov. Jared Polis has signed, as well...

Colorado GOP has lost its sense of what’s best for the people | Rachel Gabel

Updated 3 days ago

The Republican Party I grew up knowing was the party of small business, big business, and job creation. It was the party that signed paychecks...

Michael Bennet is the $2.5 million corporate man | Dick Wadhams

Updated 3 days ago

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has learned a lot after 20 years in the Senate. He is an accomplished dancer — at the old Washington, D.C., two-step of saying one thing but...

Rediscovering the shared purpose that brings us Coloradans together again | Miller Hudson

Updated 3 days ago

Pay raises for incompetence at the Colorado Capitol | Jon Caldara

Updated 4 days ago

Founding documents reconnect us to our shared American roots – and rebelliousness | Vince Bzdek

Updated 5 days ago

Attorney General Phil Weiser’s underdog campaign for Colorado governor | Cronin and Loevy

Updated 5 days ago

Would you hire Jena Griswold to handle your case? | SONDERMANN

Updated 5 days ago

Trends to track as Colorado’s in precarious position pre-gubernatorial primaries | Paula Noonan

Updated 1 week ago

Is the ‘penumbra of privacy’ going, going, gone in Colorado? | Hal Bidlack

Updated 1 week ago

Processing plants are an important piece of the ag puzzle | Rachel Gabel

Updated 1 week ago

As AI advances, are the accompanying cultural advances for the better? | Miller Hudson

Updated 1 week ago

Too much Tina | Jon Caldara

Updated 2 weeks ago

A mistaken commutation and an over-the-top reaction | SONDERMANN

Updated 2 weeks ago

It seemed an itch that Gov. Jared Polis just had to scratch. After months of hints and speculation, Polis put his signature on a commutation...

Polis’ — and the replacement candidates’ — positions on Colorado’s most contested 2026 legislation | Paula Noonan

Updated 2 weeks ago

The knock on the word “assume” is it can make an “a**” out of “(yo)u” and “me.” Let’s nevertheless assume the 2026 General Assembly addressed...

Sorry, Governor — you are wrong on this one | Hal Bidlack

Updated 2 weeks ago

If you have read even a handful of my several hundred columns during the past few years, you likely ran across me saying nice things...

Colorado GOP plays with fire as primary approaches | Dick Wadhams

Updated 2 weeks ago

Over the next several weeks, the Colorado Republican Party will make consequential decisions that will determine just how relevant it will be in 2026 and...

Public Lands Rule rescinding keeps public lands in public hands | Rachel Gabel

Updated 2 weeks ago

America wrestles with its ‘Leaving MAGA’ moment | Miller Hudson

Updated 2 weeks ago

Questions for Mike and Phil | Jon Caldara

Updated 3 weeks ago

Hard-fought Dem primary could put GOP’s Kirkmeyer in governor’s chair | Cronin & Loevy

Updated 3 weeks ago

Which Colorado candidate for governor will commit to the ‘public’ in public education? | Paula Noonan

Updated 3 weeks ago

Solar and wind —what a difference a border makes | Hal Bidlack

Updated 3 weeks ago

Antitrust suit seeks better prices for farmers | Rachel Gabel

Updated 3 weeks ago

The community-less, hyper-online citizen is a threat to democracy | Miller Hudson

Updated 3 weeks ago

Trends and challenges in higher education | Tom Cronin

Updated 4 weeks ago

Colorado’s rulers save democracy from the voters | Jon Caldara

Updated 4 weeks ago

Colorado needs a sane, viable opposition party | SONDERMANN

Updated 4 weeks ago

If you are upset with the increasing regulatory burden in Colorado, the exodus of too many large employers, accelerating property taxes, the condition of the...

It’s almost Sine Die and it can’t come soon enough | Capitol M | Week of May 9, 2026

Updated 4 weeks ago

The lighter side of the state Capitol, usually. At first, May the Fourth might have been a bit of a disappointment. Usually, there’s a lot...

From Antero to Trump, gaslighting too often more common than accountability | Paula Noonan

Updated 4 weeks ago

Gaslighting has become a contagious political virus. The contagion has spread from the White House to state, county and school-board government. Shame doesn’t prevent its...