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As the hangover from this week's electoral college protests starts to wear off, various activists and lawmakers are calling for structural change in how we elect the president.  Their efforts will fail as miserably as the ill-conceived "Hamilton Electors" movement. It...

As the new year approaches, lawmakers typically send out press releases listing their accomplishments. It’s usually a dry read, but U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is hip with the times, and instead of the boring recitation, one of her staffers created a colorful Facebook...

Call us skeptical, but we suspect some area newspapers might have fallen victim to a hoax, or fake news as we’re now supposed to call it, in the case of the offended, unnamed Mexican-American shopper at a Hobby Lobby in Longmont. According to newspaper reports, after...

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman's campaign was included in National Journal's bi-partisan list of this year's top ten Congressional campaigns.  Six Republicans, including high profile Senators Marco Rubio and Rob Portman were included in the list alongside Coffman.   That's...

Liberal U.S. Representative Ed Perlmutter is conducting a two question "End of Year Survey" about President-elect Trump, and let's just say it's a bit melodramatic.  The first question asks how the respondent feels about the prospects of a Trump Administration, and...

UPDATE: Chalkbeat's Nic Garcia rightly pointed out that another Congressional seat would mean another seat on the State Board of Education. Then, because Colorado cannot have an even number of members on the Board of Ed, an at-large seat would be added to the board....

Colorado's loss is Washington, D.C.'s gain. Investigative reporter Todd Shepherd, who runs Complete Colorado, is moving on to take a position as an investigative reporter with the Washington Examiner. In case you aren't familiar with his work, he is a diligent and...

Democratic organizations are trying to rally the troops in spite of their crushing defeat in the polls last month, this time to pressure Republican lawmakers to support Obamacare and not side with Trump who has pledged to roll back some of the law that makes insurance...

Everyone who thinks the use of coal, oil and gas causes climate change and should be eliminated, please turn off all your lights, the heat, and park your cars so that the rest of us can use whatever energy is left over before Obama outlaws it all. Honestly. The man is...

Bigmedia.org is so concerned about competition from fake news that they are asking lawmakers to sign a "Fake News Pledge," or at least that's the only thing we can deduce. According to the terms of the pledge, lawmakers and citizens who take up this noble cause...