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Ament falling behind Stapleton in raising campaign cash

By | 07.07.10 | 10:46 am

Widely seen as the front-runner for the GOP nomination for Colorado state treasurer, J.J. Ament has fallen badly behind Walker Stapleton in fund raising. As of the end of June, Stapleton had amassed more than $226,000 in cash to spend…

Doug Bruce undergoes something like being served a subpoena

By | 06.21.10 | 5:32 pm

COLORADO SPRINGS– Anti-tax crusader Doug Bruce, who has ducked more than 30 attempts by the state to serve him with a subpoena in the last weeks, seemed surprised Monday at a ballot initiative hearing here when a man approached…

Validity of Bartkowicz pot bust to undergo first review

By | 02.15.10 | 6:17 pm

Colorado’s medical marijuana chronicles went federal this weekend when the state’s top drug cop, DEA special agent Jeff Sweetin, seemed to directly defy the Attorney General and the Obama administration by raiding a Highlands Ranch home a day after owner Chris Bartkowicz spoke to KUSA-TV 9News about his major basement marijuana grow operation. Bartkowicz showed 9News his medical-marijuana license and the documentation for the people to whom he serves as a caregiver. He said he was “living the dream.”

Sweetin and his agents were apparently embarrassed.

Financial industry reform battle begins again in Washington

By | 10.15.09 | 8:48 am

As the Washington Independent noted on Wednesday, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee is in the midst of tackling financial regulatory reform, which has brought out the lobbyists in full force.

Here’s just a small taste of the…

Colorado’s citizen initiative system gears up for another monster ballot

By | 03.09.09 | 7:56 am

Louis Schroeder came to the State Capitol on Friday to attend a review hearing on a ballot initiative he authored that aims to radically reduce Colorado property taxes. Schroeder and four staff members from the government’s Legislative Council and Legal Services offices sat around a long table in a narrow room for more than an hour, considering a 10-page report staffers had prepared on various legal points.

Suthers drops Senate bid, says he’s staying put as attorney general

By | 01.26.09 | 12:04 pm

Putting the kibosh on speculation he would seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2010, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced Monday he plans to seek re-election to the state’s top law enforcement office and won’t be seeking higher office next year. “I will not run for the U.S. Senate,” Suthers says in a lengthy statement filled with “soul-searching.”

Salazar Should Own Up to His Role in Gonzales Fiasco

By | 08.27.07 | 11:15 am

Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar’s thoughts about Alberto Gonzales’ demise were brief.

“I had called for Alberto Gonzales' resignation several months ago,” Salazar said in a statement released hours after Gonzales resigned Monday as U.S. Attorney General. “With his resignation…

State Short $40 Million in Coal Taxes Since 2000

By | 08.07.07 | 7:00 am

Colorado has failed to collect nearly $40 million in coal severance taxes since 2000 that should have been paid under state statutes.

In a July 6, 2007 opinion, Attorney General John Suthers found that the Department of Revenue had…

Supreme Court Rejects Colorado AG Suthers’ Argument

By | 04.03.07 | 5:28 pm

Twenty-three states filed legal briefs in the Duke Energy case before the U.S. Supreme Court decided yesterday by a unanimous court.

Twenty-one states sided with the victorious environmental groups.  Colorado, at the behest of Republican Attorney General

Suthers’ Saudi Trip Politically Questionable

By | 11.21.06 | 12:32 pm


Lost in the shuffle of stories about the still-not-quite-finished election in Colorado was a weeklong trip by Attorney General John Suthers to Saudi Arabia.