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Senate committee advances bill that opens files on police internal affairs...

A Colorado Senate committee Wednesday evening advanced legislation that would open records on completed law enforcement internal affairs investigations. House Bill 19-1119, which passed the...

The Indy’s Corey Hutchins talks about The Colorado Voter Backlash On...

Colorado Independent journalist Corey Hutchins sat down with reporter Ernest Luning of ColoradoPolitics.com and host Jon Caldara, president of the Libertarian-leaning Independence Institute, to talk about voting issues in Colorado on...

Coming to a ballot near you this November – no statewide...

Colorado voters will get a bit of a respite this year, now that there isn’t anyone or any group planning to run a ballot...

Douglas County voucher supporters encouraged by Supreme Court decision in similar...

A significant U.S. Supreme Court ruling Monday on a church-state issue opens a new chapter in a court fight over a Douglas County private...

Hacked docs from Wisconsin: A ‘redprint’ plan to shift Colorado to...

A conservative foundation based in Wisconsin is funnelling hundreds of thousands of dollars into Colorado to help shift the state to the right, according...

Lawsuit against ‘Raise the Bar’ pits urban voters against rural

From the “politics makes strange bedfellows” department: Several organizations that haven’t exactly been on the same side of issues came out in support this morning...

Republicans walk a tightrope over rural hospital fix

As lawmakers continue to negotiate over the session’s biggest bill - to free up millions of dollars for rural hospitals, instead of cutting funds to...

US Supreme Court to Colorado think tank: Disclose your donors or...

  The nation's highest court on Monday upheld a lower court’s money-in-politics ruling in a case out of Colorado that requires groups to disclose who...

Spending on ballot measures hits the big time

Labor Day traditionally marks the start of the final push of the campaign season and spending by committees involved with the nine measures on...

Jon Caldara talks Colorado independent cinema

Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute is best known for being a free-market, gun loving, anti-union, libertarian pundit, and mover and shaker in Colorado...