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Your weekly roundup of Colorado news and media, March 1

  Last Monday there was something missing from Colorado’s largest daily newspaper: For the first time in memory, no house editorial appeared in the pages of...

5 reactions to Cynthia Coffman’s hospital provider fee bomb

  Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman's office dropped a news bombshell at the state Capitol on the eve of the Colorado caucuses— when most eyes are turned...

Colorado’s GOP AG clears key Democratic budget plan as legal

  By saying a plan to reclassify a billion-dollar hospital program is constitutional, Colorado's Republican attorney general today bolstered a key strategy by the Democratic...

Colorado GOP Sen. Larry Crowder vs. Koch group on Twitter

Republican Sen. Larry Crowder has introduced a new word into the rhetorical battle against the Koch brothers and Americans for Prosperity, their state-based prime political arm...

Senate president praises Koch group: “AFP is a partner of ours”

DENVER, CO -- Members of the billionaire Koch brothers-founded conservative group Americans for Prosperity showed up to the state Capitol Thursday to drum up lawmakers' support....

Conservatives burned money on JeffCo races. Unions spent big and won

  The Independence Institute, Americans for Prosperity and other conservative groups sank hundreds of thousands of dollars into the 2015 school board races and ended...

Colorado voters “give the middle finger” to Koch Brothers education reforms

  Voters in three school board districts sent a powerful message Tuesday night to conservative billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, Americans for Prosperity and...

Dark money, lies and disclosure in the JeffCo school board race

Groups opposed to the recall of three conservative Jefferson County Board of Education members are doing their best to keep under wraps how much...

Koch-backed ads raise the propaganda pitch in Colorado

The free-market group Americans for Prosperity, founded by billionaires David and Charles Koch, has been releasing a string of painfully earnest ads. A recent spot...

With JeffCo recall looming, Americans for Prosperity organizes for “school choice”

Regardless of the outcome of the recall… That was the mantra repeated on Sunday by the politicians, school board candidates and conservative education reformers attending...