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Stimulus money flows into Colorado, putting some to work, angering others

To some, stimulus money has been a godsend. To others, it has been an overreaching waste of taxpayer money. One thing that is hard to argue, though, is that it has pumped billions of dollars into the Colorado economy.

Caldara declares ‘game on’ as curtains rise on ‘Obamacare’ opening act

As health reform legislation begins taking effect in Colorado and around the country, the Colorado Secretary of State Thursday deemed the signatures submitted for...

Wall Street Journal wrong: Caldara anti-‘Obamacare’ initiative not yet approved

Wall Street Journal columnist Stephen Moore reveled this weekend in the fact that he could "add Colorado to the list of states that are...

Caldara submits signatures to land anti-‘Obamacare’ initiative on Nov. ballot

President of the Independence Institute Jon Caldara submitted roughly 130,500 signatures to the Colorado Secretary of State’s office Friday in an effort to land...

Buck, Norton alarm media by trading gender barbs; real issue remains...

U.S. GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck mockingly told a crowd at an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms party this past weekend to vote for him...

Journalist Bill Menezes on opportunities seized and squandered in Colorado’s shifting...

Colorado Independent contributor Jason Salzman has been hunting down veteran Denver journalists no longer reporting regularly to talk about Colorado journalism in the era...

Lunchtime links: Colorado anti-Obamacare initiative struggling

Independence Institute President Jon Caldara's "anti-Obamacare " initiative, which aims to exempt Coloradans from the paying into the plan, is limping along, with only...

WATCH: Caldara to Romanoff: Really, why should Democrats vote for you?

The libertarian GOP-supporting Independence Institute's Jon Caldara interviewed Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff for this week's edition of Caldara's politics talk show "Independent...

Denver Post muddles Colorado high court Dallman campaign finance ruling

It was an easy hook but it garbled Jessica Fender's Denver Post story. Fender was reporting the fact that the Colorado Supreme Court found...

Coloradoans working to block federal health-care reform

The libertarian-leaning Independence Institute is already at work on a state constitutional amendment that would block some of the proposed federal health care reforms,...