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Builders say state’s push fails to create more affordable housing
Mark Samuelson Special to The Denver Gazette
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Updated 6 hours ago
What’s the secret sauce for making homes more affordable in Colorado? That’s the question that renters are asking when the median price of a home — now $550,000 — ranks Colorado as one of the least affordable places to live...
Rocky Mountain west gets high grades for passenger train services | Cronin and Loevy
Tom Cronin Bob Loevy
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Updated 1 day ago
Here are some additional facts and comments about the proposed Front Range passenger rail system planned to run from Pueblo on the south through Colorado Springs and Denver to Fort Collins on the north. A study was conducted recently of...
Judge dismisses young climate activists’ lawsuit challenging Trump on fossil fuels | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
The Associated Press
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Updated 2 weeks ago
MONTANA Judge dismisses climate lawsuit BILLINGS — A federal judge on Oct. 15 dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen...
Democrats don’t look for answers in Colorado | CALDARA
Jon Caldara
jon-caldara@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Outside of Colorado, Democrats are still panicked about President Donald Trump’s victory, trying to figure out how Americans can be so stupid as to reject their elitist-driven, woke socialism. But inside Colorado, Democrats see no need to worry. Unchecked power...
Historic race unfolds upon retirement of longest serving speaker of the house| A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 days ago
Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: With state House Speaker Carl “Bev” Bledsoe, R-Hugo, term-limited, eager Republicans — and a Democrat — were gearing to step into the shoes of the longest-serving house speaker in the Colorado General Assembly. In the running...
Colorado Politics Calendar Nov. 3-9
Rachael Wright
rachael.wright@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 5 days ago
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances,...
Democrat Amie Baca-Oehlert ends campaign to challenge Republican Gabe Evans in Colorado’s 8th CD
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Calling the political system “rigged against working-class people,” Democrat Amie Baca-Oehlert, a former president of Colorado’s largest teachers union, on Friday ended her bid to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans in the state’s most competitive congressional district. Baca-Oehlert’s exit...
Free food and other assistance for Colorado Springs-area families affected by government shutdown restrictions
DEBBIE KELLEY
debbie-kelley@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
Worry over the impending freeze on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program coupled with some federal workers not being paid due to the continuing government shutdown is contributing to increased need for social services, according to Colorado Springs food pantries and...
Federal judge: ‘Clear evidence’ shows ICE violates law on warrantless arrests
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 days ago
A federal judge repeatedly observed on Friday that the evidence from a two-day hearing strongly suggested immigration agents have been arresting people without warrants in Colorado in violation of federal law. “There’s a policy. These guys just don’t follow it....
‘I do not think we’re in a judicial crisis’: Federal, state judges speak of challenges for judiciary
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Members of Colorado’s federal and state judiciaries spoke on Wednesday about the concerns they see with how the public engages with judges’ work, and about judges’ limited ability to correct misinformation. “Someone goes out there on social media and says,...