Nov 11, 2016
Democratic State Sen. Irene Aguilar can’t figure out why we voted down Amendment 69 by 80 percent to 20 percent and rejected the creation of yet another government-run health care fiasco. She is already planning to revive the referendum that died shortly after it was...
Nov 10, 2016
Just two days after the election, both Republican and Democrat caucuses have selected their leadership teams for the upcoming legislature. Kevin Grantham, a Republican and six year veteran of the the State Senate, will enter his final two years in that chamber as...
Nov 10, 2016
Our own U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is being touted in Washington to become the new boss of keeping the Republican majority in the Senate. According to Politico, Gardner has been campaigning quietly behind the scenes and has enough votes to become the new chairman of the...
Nov 10, 2016
The Colorado Senate was one of the biggest battleground states and chambers of the cycle. Control of the Senate hinged on just a handful of Democrat leaning suburban districts. And given that it was a presidential year with inevitably higher turnout, the odds were...
Nov 10, 2016
Despite a nasty case of incumbent fever that seems to have swept through the state, Colorado’s energy industry may have survived unscathed in spite of some of our election choices. Voters went retro with Hillary, but energy supporter Donald Trump prevailed nationwide,...
Nov 9, 2016
Last night, Colorado lived up to its purple state reputation. While Democrats Michael Bennet won re-election by a narrow three-percent margin and Hillary Clinton carried the state at top of the ticket, Republican Heidi Ganahl won a statewide election for a University...