Author: By ERNEST LUNING [email protected]

Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and University of Colorado Regent Heidi Ganahl, his Republican challenger, squared off Sunday in Colorado Springs for their third general election debate, held the day before county clerks started mailing ballots to most state voters. The fast-paced, hourlong debate, sponsored by the Colorado Springs Gazette, Colorado Politics, KOAA and The El…

President Joe Biden on Friday signed bipartisan legislation to add the site of a World War II-era Japanese American internment center in the southeast corner of Colorado to the National Park System. Sponsored by Colorado lawmakers U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse and Ken Buck and U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, the Amache National Historic…

Gov. Jared Polis hit the campaign trail Wednesday with stops in seven Front Range cities on the second day of a four-day, statewide tour that formally kicked off the Democrat’s reelection bid. Accompanied by his running mate, Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera, Polis said he accomplished much of what he set out to do in his…

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis officially launches his bid for a second term on Tuesday with a four-day statewide tour starting at a campaign event at a brewery in Pueblo. The former five-term congressman from Boulder told Colorado Politics he’s accomplished the goals he campaigned on four years ago in the face of a series of…

President Joe Biden vowed on Friday that Coloradans who lost their homes and businesses to the devastating wildfire that tore through suburban neighborhoods in Boulder County last week can count on the federal government to stand by the communities as they rebuild. Biden, accompanied by his wife, Jill, and Colorado officials, met with families who…

A bipartisan bill to add a former Japanese American internment camp in Prowers County to the National Park System moved a step closer to passing Wednesday when U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper and experts on historic preservation testified in support of the designation at a Senate committee hearing. “Without question, Amache tells the story of a painful…

Conservative provocateur Candace Owens said the owner of a facility in Aspen refused to give her a COVID-19 test due to her political beliefs. “I was banned from taking a Covid test because of my politics!” Owens said Wednesday night on Twitter, linking to redacted images of an email exchange with someone she identified as…