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He's been a farmer and rancher, news photographer, funeral home assistant, substitute teacher, and truck driver, but one job that Republican State Senator Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling) isn't applying for is U.S. Senator.  In an email to the Peak, Sonnenberg revealed...

Looks like state Rep. Joe Salazar (D-Rape Whistle) has been making a spectacle of himself, again. This time he showed up at a recent public meeting on drilling in Adams County to throw a hissy fit that he wasn’t invited to the, ahem, public event. Synergy Resources...

In the most recent development in the saga over the Environmental Protection Agency-proposed Waters of the United States rule, a U.S. Appeals Court has temporarily blocked the implementation of the rule nationwide. Previously, a federal judge in North Dakota prevented...

Despite a recent report that the White House is considering transferring dangerous Gitmo detainees to Colorado, Sen. Morgan Carroll refuses to call on the Obama Administration to take Colorado off the list of sites for consideration. When asked by the Colorado...

If there was any doubt that the union and the Jeffco PTA are encouraging a toxic conversation in Jeffco, look no further than the head of the Jeffco PTA President, Angela Geier, who was elected earlier this spring: Yes, she is the one giving a double middle finger...

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman raised nearly a half-million dollars during the last fundraising quarter and now has more than $850,000 cash-on-hand to beat back a challenge from Democratic state Sen. Morgan Carroll. “I am happy to report that we blew by our fundraising goal,”...

Today, the Denver Business Journal broke a story that Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is moving forward with city-wide construction defects reform. The legislature previously tried to pass a statewide construction defects law; however, most of the legislation was blocked...

A few weeks ago, we told readers that the EPA had conducted a survey to identify mines similar to Gold King that were at risk of a spill. The agency identified ten sites, several in Colorado, but were very hush, hush about which mines made the list. Except for one –...

Throughout the Jeffco School Board recall effort, the union-backed recallers have repeatedly claimed that the Jeffco School Board broke open meetings laws. When pressed on the issue, the union never can seem to come up with any specific instance. Today, school board...