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State of the State speech: The GOP response

Bill Ritter gave his state of the state address this morning. The Republican response came from Assistant Minority Leaders Sen. Greg Brophy and Rep....

Lightning Strike Tweet of the Week: Sen. Brophy nails it

Colorado Republican politicians are great tweeters. Hats off to them. Their tweets are fresh and raw and angry. Their tweets make national news! This...

Marilyn Musgrave in New York rallies the conservative troops

What does it look like when the arch-conservatives come to town? They're swarming places like Watertown in upstate New York, where semi-qualified Conservative...

Sen. Brophy happily avoiding Denver traffic and newspaper reports

Colorado Republican state Senator Greg Brophy tweets this past weekend that he was back in small town Wray where he lives far from the...

Conservatives now outright supporting health-care status quo

Two conservative leaders in Colorado, Archbishop Charles Chaput and state Senator Greg Brophy, R-Wray, are advancing the position that no health reform is better...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce to stop global warming by frivolously suing...

U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., one-time nominal GOP leader and no tree-hugger by anyone's measure, came to Colorado this week and proclaimed that he...

Obama Grand Junction stop met with GOP health-reform gamesmanship

President Obama aimed to lower the temperature of the health-reform debate in Colorado by appearing in person Saturday in Grand Junction and delivering a speech that framed health reform as essential economic policy, tying it to the national Recovery Act and future national prosperity. Colorado Republicans, however, weren't ready to see the heat go out of the debate. They saw the president's speech as mere strategy and so strategized in response.

Anatomy of a decision: Ethics panel reaches agreement in secret meeting

What does it look like when a government body debates and makes decisions in a closed-door executive session? Pretty much the same as it would in public -- which the law requires -- except that only the meeting's participants get to see what went into the decision.

Sen. Brophy: Pshaw on that global warming

As he bike-rides the great terrain of the state this summer, Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray, is twittering. Last night he was inspired to share...

Upon his Twitter, Sen. Brophy would injure we of patient sufferance

On July Fourth, the gentleman senator from Wray, Greg Brophy, took to his Twitter to make a wager. He bet that we at "the...