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STEYER’S GOT A SECRET: Billionaire is Back in Colorado Politics
What is California billionaire Tom Steyer up to in Colorado, again, that has prompted him to spend nearly $360,000 in the state in 2015 for research and polling? Complete Colorado has the financial disclosures that show $345,000 went to Project New America and $12,000...
THE LEFT’S DEFEANING SILENCE: Obama Overreaches, Republicans Defend Second Amendment, Democrats Silent
Earlier today, President Obama announced expansive new gun control and Colorado's Republican legislators are pushing back against what is widely considered a complete overstep of his presidential authority. Democrats, for the most part, were silent on the massive...
FAUX POLL: Building a Better Colorado Claims Colorado Hates TABOR, Won’t Share Poll
Building a Better Colorado, the group formed to "fix" all that "ails" Colorado liberals, is making a bold claim. Reeves Brown, executive director of this misguided effort, is telling the world that his polling shows that Coloradans support decimating TABOR, the only...
YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS VOTER FRAUD: Democratic Wannabe Candidate Allegedly Turns in Fraudulent Signatures
Carrie Houck, a Democrat who has tried to run for State House in 2012 and 2014 and for Denver City Council last year, has been charged with 13 counts of forgery and perjury in connection with just bizarre signatures she submitted to attempt to get on the ballot. Here...
NUTS IN A NUTCASE: Why Ammon Bundy Needs to Go Home
Once again the Bundys are in the news and giving ranchers a bad name, this time in Oregon where no one, including the ranchers they purport to be supporting, want their help. Ammon Bundy, the son of Cliven Bundy, who sparked a standoff with federal law enforcement...
GITMO GONE: Obama to Release a Bunch of Terrorists this Week
President Obama has decided to turn loose a bunch of Gitmo detainees, mostly cooks and janitors and doers of good deeds. We kid. Followers of al Qaeda and “multiple bad guys” are among the group of 17 detainees that the Obama administration plans to transfer from the...
OUT: Mitt Romney’s Nephew, Doug Robinson, Declines Senate Run, But Will Endorse
Saying that he hopes to avoid a difficult intra-party fight, GOP fundraiser and businessman Doug Robinson is stepping out of the ring for the U.S. Senate race in Colorado. Robinson also revealed that he planned to endorse a candidate soon. That candidate is rumored...
QUIET: Democratic Electeds Silent on Fracking Ballot Initiatives
Last week, we reported on the eleven ballot initiatives that a group called CREED (Coloradans Resisting Extreme Energy Development) filed just before Christmas. The initiatives ranged from an all-out ban on fracking to extreme 4,500-foot setbacks. Interestingly, as...
READY, AIM, JAIL: Unpaid Traffic Tickets? Can’t Buy Guns in Boulder
President Obama is finalizing plans Monday with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to bypass Congress and create new guns laws through executive fiat. Meanwhile, Boulder DA Stan Garnett says he will crack down on Colorado’s gun laws already on the books and send people to...
THE PEAK TOP TEN: We Reveal Our Most-Read Stories of 2015
For it not being an election year, Colorado sure had a tumultuous year. From the Jeffco recalls to party drama, we felt like we were living in an episode of "House of Cards". Below are the stories that lit your fire, our most read from 2015. 10. Harsanyi, the...