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Colorado Congressman Jared Polis is stepping into the debate surrounding the violent protesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline.  Because he can't resist a good enviro fight. That's why. Upset about "the use of less-lethal weapons" by law enforcement, the Boulder...

During his campaign, President elect Donald Trump published a list of 21 lawyers and judges that he claimed would comprise the universe of choices for the Supreme Court.  This list was highly scrutinized, as the president-elect will have the opportunity to nominate a...

In just two months, President Barack Obama will pack his bags and leave the White House completing his eight year tour of the country’s finest golf courses, and the Trump era will begin. Want to see the actual transition of power? U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner has been...

It looks like the energy industry isn’t just rolling over for Obama’s last-minute rule-making decisions before he’s out of the White House in eight weeks. In spite of the Interior Department’s decision last week to renege on its lease agreement to develop energy in...

In Colorado politics this year, Democrats ran two anti-energy hard liners in Western Slope districts, and thought they both had decent shots at winning. Neither came close, with CD-3 candidate Gail Schwartz getting crushed by almost 15 points, and Emily Tracy going...

Rep. Ed Perlmutter finally went public with his support for Rep. Tim Ryan, who has launched an upstart campaign for U.S. House minority leader in the wake of Democrats' devastating losses in the 2016 general election. Ryan, a seven-term U.S. Congressman from Ohio, has...

Democrats have bemoaned their lost shot at having another Coloradan fill the Interior seat with like of Hickenlooper or, ugh, Udall, since Hillary lost. But her loss is our gain, because Colorado still has a seat at the head of the table deciding who the next Interior...

That didn’t take long. The ink was barely dry on the federal government’s decision to renege on the leases they issued in the Thompson Divide Area, now it looks like that move might get Trumped. Republican Sen. Ray Scott of Grand Junction says it will be a whole new...

Who knew that our forests were consecrated grounds? Holy places that should be protected from the presence of mere humans? Or in Gov. Hickenlooper’s estimation, “sacred?” It was that divine spirituality, we are lead to assume, that prompted the federal government to...

Chris Hansen, the behind-the-scenes strategist who led the Cory Gardner campaign to a historic upset of a sitting U.S. Senator in a purple state, now will serve as executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. This should not come as a huge...