HICKENLOOPER’S INDIA TRADE MISSION: What Exactly Are We Trading?

Gov. Hickenlooper is in India this week for a “trade mission” with a dozen business leaders including an education leader and a lobbyist from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck who paid $4,000 a pop to travel to New Delhi. Trade missions typically involve the exchange of...

CAMPAIGN FOR GOVERNOR: Lynne’s Strategy Is To Mooch Off Hickenlooper

We’re not sure who is using whom. Gov. Hickenlooper is holding town hall meetings to discuss his health care proposal that’s going nowhere in Washington. Joining him at those meetings is Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, who used to be an executive at Kaiser Permanente. Lynne is...

THANKS HICK: State-Run Health Care Not Paying Its Bills

Gov. Hickenlooper is trying to remain relevant on the national stage by pushing for an expansion of government-run Obamacare programs. Meanwhile, it’s failing in his own backyard and nary a backwards glance does he give it. Doctors and hospitals on the Western Slope...

STAPLETON’S STAND: Walker Enters Race, Takes Aim at Polis

State Treasurer Walker Stapleton came out of the gate strong this weekend in officially announcing his Republican campaign for governor, Colorado Politics reports. Stapleton pledged to tackle tough issues like PERA, healthcare, education and securing our energy...