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Cagey Stapleton dogged by lingering DUI questions

The incomplete records available from candidate for treasurer Walker Stapleton's 1999 DUI arrest have raised questions the week before Election Day that Stapleton has only partly addressed. As more details of the case emerge, Stapleton's fudging and partial responses play into assertions made by Democratic incumbent Cary Kennedy that voters are right to question her opponent's commitment to transparency in a race that will decide who will manage billions in tax payer cash in the coming four years.

Stapleton’s DUI ‘doo-doo sandwich’ gets sloppier to swallow

Progressive activist coalition Campaign for a Strong Colorado has dug into GOP candidate for treasurer Walker Stapleton's 1999 San Francisco DUI arrest and found...

Kuhner and Ackerman on Obama and Bush bad language

Columnist Jeffrey Kuhner writing in the Obama-blasting Washington Times takes media flappery around the President saying he was looking to "kick ass" for the...

Gas executives bullish on next boom; Penry still pedaling doom, gloom

Continuing to ignore global economic conditions precipitated in part by eight years of Republican economic policies, state Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction,...

Are they still boarding planes? Tuesday was deadline for new ‘Real...

Is Real ID a really failed policy? The Bush-era Real ID Act of 2005 sought to impose standards for identification materials across the country. In...

‘We’re Screwed,’ GOP Panelists Agree

Bush has failed and the Republican Party is divided, in ruins and with little hope for the next election cycle -- all according to...

President’s Vetoes Leave Congress Settling for “Good” Instead of “Perfect”

Democratic U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar calls it "not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good." That has become Salazar's way of dealing with...

Here’s a Shocker: Shock Value Doesn’t Work

There's probably something to be said for shock value, but after watching the aftermath of college newspaper editor David McSwane's decision to run an...

No Turn on Iraq Until 2009, Udall Predicts

Only one way exists to change the direction of the war in Iraq before January 2009, Colorado Congressman Mark Udall said. Though Democrats control...