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State lawmakers allot $2 million for overtime pay as prison guard vacancies grow “Our...
State lawmakers allocated $2 million to the Department of Corrections on Thursday to help cover the costs of overtime pay for prison guards for...
Littwin: We honor MLK by learning Republicans were lynched and King wasn’t about race
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
You can find a Martin Luther...
Littwin: How hot does a smoking gun need to be before Trump is truly...
Updated at 6:40 p.m.
My first reaction to the no-longer-so-explosive Buzzfeed report that Donald Trump had directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the...
Amid a growing opioid epidemic, lawmakers hope to end drug-addiction withdrawal in county jails...
On a warm spring day in 2015, Sarah Blair was stranded at a Safeway in Thornton with no car and a dead cell phone....
Littwin: Cory Gardner picks the exact right time to go rogue on Trump’s shutdown
Give Cory Gardner credit. Not only did he go rogue — shocking in its own right — he went rogue at just the right...
Lawmakers eye drug sentencing reforms to ease projected prison population growth People with controlled...
Editors note: House Democrats introduced a bill to change the penalties for drug possession on March 22.
The department that oversees Colorado’s prisons is again asking the...
Littwin: If Trump can survive the chaos — and here’s betting he can —...
I have no idea how it will end — only that it will end badly.
I don’t mean the shutdown. History gives a pretty good...
Littwin: It was cleanup time at the state Senate, and Baumgardner was swept out
As you’ve probably heard, Randy Baumgardner, the oft-accused sexual harasser who survived an expulsion vote last session, has now resigned from the state Senate....
State Sen. Randy Baumgardner, nearly expelled over #MeToo allegations, will resign The rancher from...
Republican state Sen. Randy Baumgardner, who was nearly expelled from the legislature in February over allegations of sexual harassment, announced on Monday he will...
The Denver district has offered to raise teacher pay. Will it be enough to...
Most Denver teachers would get raises under a new salary structure proposed by the school district. The proposal would boost the salary for first-year...