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When the next Colorado General Assembly comes to order in January, budget issues will take center stage. Chief among those issues is the convergence of Medicaid expansion, TABOR, and the hospital provider fee. And the stage was set for this showdown almost four years...

GOP Chairman Steve House is testing the political waters for a possible run at the governor’s mansion while keeping his options open to campaign instead for his current job in 2017. What he doesn’t want to do, is cause “chaos,” House said. “If I were to run for...

Environmentalists are grumbling that Trump hasn’t added enough members to his EPA transition effort, so he’s named to the team Colorado’s own Amy Oliver Cooke from the Independence Institute’s Energy Police Center, a free-market think tank where Cooke reigns as vice...

If a tree falls in a forest near Aspen, will anyone throw a hissy fit to have it removed? Only if it causes the right kind of environmental damage. If trees fall on the ground to rot and threatens to add fuel to a forest fire, then the tree stays because that’s just...

George Athanasopoulos says he wants to make Colorado a proud red state again, and hopes to do so as leader of the GOP. The former congressional candidate who challenged U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter in last month’s election isn’t waiting for current chairman Steve House to...

In a secret ballot this morning, Nancy Pelosi was re-elected by her peers as House Minority Leader, 134 - 63, pushing back a challenge by fellow Democrat Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan. As we reported last week, Colorado's Ed Perlmutter went out on a limb to publicly support...

Colorado lawmakers are on the repeal bandwagon to take advantage of the incoming GOP administration to undo some of the damage inflicted upon the economy and our own wallets during eight years of Democratic rule. At the top of the list is Obamacare, which U.S. Sen....

This morning, the Colorado Senate Republicans announced a new committee called the Energy and Environment Committee.  According to a press release, the new committee, chaired by Republican state Senator Ray Scott from Grand Junction, "would be free to hold hearings on...

It turns out that vile creator of fake news spreading viral headlines across Facebook accusing Hillary of all sorts of nasty business was not some alt-right underground operation, it was the handiwork of a Democrat living in California. Jestin Coler and his company...

We've always looked sideways at the absurd claims made by tourism bureaucrats that the USA Pro Cycling Challenge attracted a million spectators to Colorado each year. Even if they counted people who were tied up in traffic because of closed roads, the number wouldn't...