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‘He makes us feel like we matter’: Trump fans flock to...

COLORADO SPRINGS — The people who came to see their president rally a boisterous crowd in Colorado’s Trump country drove for hours through snow...

Littwin: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ takes us from Colorado Springs and the KKK to...

I know you didn’t ask, but I have a piece of advice for those out there in Readerland: Turn off the TV, pull yourself...

Colorado bill would open records on completed police internal affairs investigations

Colorado would join a dozen other states that require public disclosure of internal records on police misconduct under legislation introduced in the House on...

Littwin: OK, let’s agree Tancredo is a sure thing, but maybe...

If Colorado Republicans didn’t understand how much trouble they were in before Tom Tancredo jumped into the governor’s race— and they did, believe me...

Littwin: If Hick, Tancredo are actually up and running, give the...

As if to prove that desperate times do, in fact, call for desperate measures, I bring you the latest in desperate-sounding Colorado political news...

Cory Gardner finally held an in-person town hall. Here’s what happened.

“Senator, you suck!” “Party hack!” Those were just a few of the epithets hurled at Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner during his first in-person...

As GOP El Paso County Commissioners redraw their own district lines...

UPDATE: Members of the El Paso County Commission are set to vote on the new district lines today Democrats in Colorado’s heaviest Republican county are...

Leslie Weise: Winner of The Colorado Independent’s 2017 Whistleblower Award

First Leslie Weise blew the whistle. And then she faced jail time. It all started two years ago with what seemed like a simple...

Hundreds in Colorado Springs packed the launch party of a new...

Call it the Trump effect in Trump country. Hundreds flocked Tuesday evening to fill the Stargazers theater in heavily conservative Colorado Springs for the launch...

Colorado Springs Math Teacher + Electoral College = Rebellion

  On Monday evening, Bob Nemanich sat in a red rocking chair on his front porch in a leafy downtown Colorado Springs neighborhood contemplating the future...