Declaring that Colorado “needs a fighter, not a bystander,” state Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat, on Monday launched her long-anticipated primary challenge to U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper.
Trisha Calvarese, the Douglas County Democrat who lost a bid to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert last year in Colorado's most reliably Republican seat, announced Tuesday that she wants a rematch in the 4th Congressional District.
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In Colorado, the older population is growing fast, with ramifications for the major challenges the state already faces, notably housing, healthcare costs and workforce needs. It also affects student enrollment, which, in turn, means a direct impact on school financing.
Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez spoke publicly on Sunday about her longtime friendship with an Alabama man formerly on death row, which began during her time as a law school intern and ended with his execution more than a decade later. (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social )
The state Senate voted 29-6 on Friday morning to override Gov. Jared Polis's veto of a social media bill. The 29-6 vote was five above the two-thirds majority required for an override.
The Denver-based federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a jury will decide whether a Loveland police officer violated a couple's constitutional rights by shooting their puppy in the head and torso. - (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social )
Horn, 62, stressed the need to mend festering divisions between rival Republican factions before members of the GOP's state central committee elected her to the party's top job on March 29 at the party's biennial reorganization meeting in Colorado Springs. (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )
"We said don't f--- with moms," Pettersen told reporters while cradling her infant in her arms on the steps of the Capitol.
Colorado utilities are concerned that they may struggle to meet the state's carbon emissions reduction goals if the proposed bill, which has yet to be introduced, changes the current targets. The 2025 legislative session is nearing its final month.
Colorado Republicans on Saturday elected Brita Horn, a former county treasurer and longtime party activist, to a two-year term as state GOP chair at the party's biennial reorganization meeting in Colorado Springs.
Over two decades ago, Timothy P. O'Hara walked into the Chicago courtroom of Judge Thomas More Donnelly and auditioned in a mock trial for a legal fellowship program Donnelly directed. (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social
A federal judge ruled on Monday that the state must continue funding a Christian preschool in Chaffee County even though the academy's policies may violate the non-discrimination requirements of Colorado's universal pre-kindergarten program. (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social )
Former Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran, a Democrat, on Thursday declared her candidacy for attorney general in next year's election, saying she's "committed to ensuring that every Coloradan is safe, healthy, and economically secure." (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )
A Boulder County Democratic vacancy committee will convene on Tuesday, March 18, at 6 p.m. to select a successor to former Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis of Longmont.
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Voters in Colorado and across the Mountain West prioritize public land conservation over increased energy development on federal lands by a three-to-one margin, according to the annual Conservation in the West Poll. (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )
The calls for lawmakers to address the Yvonne "Missy" Woods scandal at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation are growing louder at the state Capitol. Lawmakers have responded by introducing two bills and requesting a state audit. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )
Exactly one year after the Colorado Supreme Court found the state's second-highest court applied the incorrect standard when evaluating a deadly crash involving an Olathe police officer. (via: @michaelkarlik.bsky.social )
Former senior Trump advisor Steve Bannon is slated to headline the Colorado Republican Party's annual fundraising dinner in March, five months after the popular podcaster's release from federal prison, the state GOP announced Thursday. (via: @ernestluning.bsky.social )
Democratic lawmakers have reintroduced a new bill that would require Colorado animal testing facilities to offer test subjects, such as cats and dogs, to local shelters for adoption.
As first reported by Colorado Politics last week, a construction defects bill intended to jump-start the affordable condo market has begun its journey through the General Assembly. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )
Lawyers challenging a collegiate athletic association's policy regarding transgender participants have asked a federal judge to recuse himself from handling the case because of his courtroom protocols. @michaelkarlik.bsky.social
Colorado Senate Democrats, although not unanimously, approved a bill Tuesday morning that would ban the purchase of firearms with detachable ammunition magazines in all but very limited circumstances. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )
Colorado second-highest court expressed "some concerns" last week about a Mesa County judge's comparison of a defendant's constitutional right to silence to a hypothetical child who has obviously eaten cookies but refuses to admit it.
Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, D-Longmont, who is under investigation for violating Senate ethics rules, announced her resignation Tuesday morning. (via: @mgoodland.bsky.social )
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