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There might be some confusion about who Colorado Rising is. We were confused. Is it an arm of America Rising, the group of political operatives dedicated to doing oppo on left-leaning candidates or a ragtag crew of environmentalists spouting off inaccuracies about the...

The town of Erie must just hate its taxpayers. That's how we interpret it's latest political stunt that happened earlier this week, banning fracking from the town until next year. Erie has been part of the oil and gas development fight since the beginning. Currently,...

Aurora has a winning campaign strategy for persuading voters to give the green light to the city’s practice of issuing traffic fines by using cameras posted at intersections. They’re not going to tell voters the whole truth — the part where red-light ticketing can be...

Another year, another attempt by liberals to tax Coloradans to tarnation with Initiative 93, which submitted signatures to get on the ballot . This time, we get in a time machine to 2013, the year that Amendment 66 tanked by a two to one margin. The union proponents...

Did we miss some sort of cataclysmic shift of historical western values and fierce independence of voters on the Western Slope signaling the demise of Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton in his November reelection bid? We did not. That tremor reported by the media that...

Well, this has to be the strangest blue on blue violence we've seen in a while. The Colorado Alliance of Mineral and Royalty Owners (CAMRO) issued a press release today showing that Colorado's public schools could "face extreme financial hardship" if Initiative 97, a...

Today, we are venturing a few miles north of the state line to bring you a dispatch from Laramie, where a group of University of Wyoming professors are calling for the university to trash its new marketing slogan “the world needs more cowboys.”  Why you may ask? These...

In reporting Republican Walker Stapleton’s pick for lieutenant governor, the media were quick to jump on the politics of the choice and the political background of Lang Sias of Arvada. But what most failed to mention, Sias is a working man. He’s a pilot for FedEx and...

The federal government’s decision to lease land on the other side of the mountains, and miles away from the Great Sand Dunes National Park, has been delayed so the feds can consult with the Navajo Nation. Of course there are no Navajo reservation lands in the entire...

Like the sequel of a creepy horror movie, the extremist group Colorado Rising resurrected its failed 2016 effort to place an anti-fracking measure on the ballot in November.  How close are they to actually achieving this goal?  Really close to the approximately...