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Photo of smoggy downtown Denver skyline via the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Air Pollution Control Division, Technical Services Program, Wednesday, March 6, 2019.
Environment/Energy

Trump EPA chief to Congress: Cut my funding The Trump administration...

Robin Bravender | States Newsroom Washington Bureau Chief -
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s U.S. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler wants Congress to deeply cut funding for his own agency in the next fiscal...
Environment/Energy

U.S. House votes to crack down on toxic chemicals; Trump threatens...

Allison Stevens - States Newsroom -
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted Friday to pass a comprehensive legislative package that would crack down on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a class...
Media

Congresswoman Diana DeGette slams the latest newspaper mega-merger to affect Colorado...

Corey Hutchins -
Two months ago, the nation's two largest newspaper chains, GateHouse and Gannett, merged to become a lumbering corporate giant on a deal financed with nearly...
Photo of Alice Madden from Alice Madden for Senate Facebook page.
Littwin Columns

Littwin: Big day in Colorado for establishment Dems, the Hick effect...

Mike Littwin -
There were a couple of major stories in Colorado Democratic politics Friday, and, in both cases, old-school Dems easily won the day. They left...
Sen. Cory Gardner addressing a town hall at Colorado Christian University, August 2017. (Photo by Phil Cherner)
Littwin Columns

Littwin: Trump is on the ropes and Cory Gardner is apparently...

Mike Littwin -
There’s a crazy theory out there that if Democrats do this impeachment thing right and if Trump and team continue to react to this...
Idrissa Camara, an aide at a Pueblo home for disabled people, volunteered for solitary confinement at the Aurora detention center. The experience, he says, brought him close to ending his life. Photo by Bryan Kelsen
All stories

GEO-run Aurora ICE Detention Center is isolating immigrants – some mentally...

Susan Greene -
The former ICE detainee agreed to talk under one condition: That he be called “Elvis.” The Salvadoran with a pompadour and an “I’d rather be...
"Public Citizen." Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) speaks at a press conference at the House Triangle in Washington, D.C., to call for reforms to restore voting rights on June 25, 2019. (Photo by Samantha Lai via Flickr: Creative Commons)
Littwin Columns

Littwin: Whatever Trump or Pelosi hopes, it looks like impeachment isn’t...

Mike Littwin -
For those still keeping score at home, Robert Mueller is out, and Jerry Nadler is now in. Anyone (like me) who thought the momentum for...
NEW YORK, NY - Hundreds of immigrant rights advocates and others participate in rally and and demonstration at the Federal Building in lower Manhattan against on June 1, 2018 in New York, United States. In coordinated marches across the country people are gathering outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field offices, U.S. attorney's offices, and the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Civil Rights

Guest Post: The ominous expansion of government deportation power threatens us...

State Sen. Julie Gonzales -
If you had to prove that you’d lived in the United States for the past two years, could you do it?  As I look through...
Littwin Columns

Littwin: Do Dems really think Mueller will provide the heat for...

Mike Littwin -
The impeachment wars are heating up again — just in time, I’d guess, for them to come to an end. In the battle over whether...
Congressman Joe Neguse (center, right) is pushing the "Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy (CORE) Act," which aims to preserve about 400,000 acres of public lands in the state. The bill cleared the House Natural Resources committee by a vote of 23-15 along party lines. 
Environment/Energy

Massive Colorado wilderness bill advances in U.S. House

Robin Bravender -
WASHINGTON -- Sweeping legislation that would preserve vast swaths of wilderness and recreation areas in Colorado advanced in the U.S. House on Wednesday.  The House...
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