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Littwin: Johnston says he couldn’t find a positive way to answer...

The only thing that surprises me about Mike Johnston’s decision to leave the U.S. Senate race is that it happened so quickly. The pool is...

Littwin: Now the question becomes how (or if) Hickenlooper can be...

And so it begins. As long expected, failed presidential candidate John Hickenlooper is now running for the U.S. Senate despite the fact that Hick...

Family leave bill rewritten to address pushback from businesses Proposed family...

Zoey Palmer said she wanted to spend more time caring for her stepmother after she underwent open-heart surgery. But the 31-year-old from Denver couldn’t...

Colorado was set to repeal the death penalty this year. What...

A few weeks ago, in preparation for what she knew would be an emotional debate on the state Senate floor over whether to repeal...

The plan to repeal the death penalty in Colorado is coming...

Editor's note: The death penalty stands in Colorado. Tuesday, Democrats in the Colorado Senate abandoned efforts to pass a bill abolishing capital punishment, citing...

Citing flaws in Colorado’s criminal justice system, lawmakers move to repeal...

In 2004, Alex Perez, then in prison on a murder conviction, was charged with killing a fellow inmate at the Limon Correctional Facility. He...

When policy becomes personal: Statehouse friends take opposite sides on Colorado...

Jovan Melton and Rhonda Fields are good friends. He ran her campaign for the state House in 2010, and now they’re both representing Aurora...

Death penalty repeal: Capitol Dems say ‘full steam ahead’ on legislation...

Twenty states have banned or suspended the death penalty, and this could be the year Colorado joins them. Public support for capital punishment is...

Meet the “Mod Squad”: centrist state Senate lawmakers who don’t always...

In July 2012, Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, citing his Christian...

Midpoint in the Garden of the General Assembly

Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed roughly 33 bills into law in the past week. You’d be hard pressed to name even one of them....