The Soapbox

A post-election survey reveals Denverites are concerned about issues ranging from affordable housing and crime to the city’s tax and spending habit. They’ve got a dozen different worries, but the city council’s proposed ban on flavored nicotine and tobacco products is...

Gov. Polis’s office violated state law in awarding a former employee a $14,000 monthly consultant gig in a no-bid contract the day after his temporary job ended. That’s according to the Ethics Commission based on a law championed by Polis that state employees be...

Turns out the values of Republicans voting in Colorado’s most contested congressional districts couldn’t be bought by Big Democrat dollars in the November election. Reports show that $24 million was spent to prop up Democrat Yadira Caraveo’s failed reelection effort...

Secretary of State Jena Griswold’s strategy to avoid scrutiny by state lawmakers of an election security breach by hiring her own “outside investigators” paid off as Democrats shut down further review in a party line vote. The “outside investigation” was released by...

Hell froze over this week as the Denver Post editorial board told Democrats to stop protecting Jena Griswold and order an audit of the Secretary of State’s office in the wake of the password online leak scandal. Yet still, it was the weakest call for transparency and...

A new day is dawning in the U.S. Senate with the departure of Mitch McConnell as the Republican leader, and that includes new leadership in the GOP’s fundraising arm to help elect new senators. Driving that effort will be former U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado,...

Nearly a dozen government agencies have $25 million just lying around in bank accounts going unspent and uncommitted to whatever great need was so necessary at the time to collect the money from Coloradans. That’s according to a new report by the Office of the State...

The Senate Ethics Committee will investigate complaints that Democrat state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis has repeatedly mistreated her legislative staffers when the new session begins in January. Meanwhile, fellow Democrat leaders are removing the lawmaker from all...