tim hoover

The debate went on in the House chamber for days, bleeding over to Monday from Friday, amounting to more than 30 hours of wrangling over eight bills designed to eliminate tax breaks granted to Colorado businesses. “Eliminate tax breaks,” anyway, is the language the Denver Post settled upon for its headline on the bills. Republicans [...]

Reports surfacing in the last hour suggest State Sen. Josh Penry is set to announce he will be ending his campaign to unseat Gov. Bill Ritter. Penry campaign spokesman Andrew Cole did not confirm reports.

Although Penry jumped into the campaign strongly this summer, winning “rising star” status from popular Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza, he has recently struggled.

Today, Washington Post writer Chris Cillizza featured Colorado Republican state senator Josh Penry in his series “The Rising,” which profiles up-and-coming politicians across the country. In the column, candidate for governor Penry is presented as a maverick, his youth and willingness to critique his party’s track-record– now a main thrust of his gubernatorial campaign rhetoric– [...]