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Tracking the money funding conservative school boards’ anti-union lawsuits

It’s not just Koch brother money funding the anti-union, pro-privatization takeover of school boards. In Colorado, mainstream community foundations are in on the game...

Ties bind conservative school boards’ anti-union attacks

The most recent battle in the conservative attack on teachers’ unions erupted in Loveland’s Thompson School District. The fight comes in the wake of...

Ken Witt launches “political stunt” filing meaningless ethics complaint against himself...

Jeffco School Board President Ken Witt Thursday said he would seek an advisory opinion with the Colorado Ethics Commission over possible violations by the...

JeffCo school director uses school email for politicking

As the rhetoric heats up for the recall election of three Jefferson County Board of Education members, so too does the potential for problems. And...

Jeffco Board of Ed recall’s on; campaigns are heating up

This article was updated August 27. The recall for three controversial Jefferson County School Board members is on. This week, Jefferson County Clerk and...

Wiretap: Gun laws reloaded; heavy metals; Attorney General Coffman’s marijuana talks

Target Practice In The Coloradoan, Stephen Meyer took aim at Colorado gun laws: “Twenty months into implementation, Colorado's gun-control laws are mostly unenforceable and have...

Littwin: Colorado’s long, strange not altogether bad trip, 2014

Now that 2014 is coming to an end, it is time to reveal the strangest thing about this strange year. It wasn't all bad. Sure, it...

JeffCo Election Day countdown: The view from the eye of the...

  HOLLY Lindsey is the voter all those TV ads are aimed at. She has lived nearly all her life in Jefferson County. She’s middle-class, churchgoing,...

Get Them All Out: Colorado Dems bet big on ground game

  TEN miles west of Denver, Shawna Fritzler’s upper-middle-class development blooms on a rural two-lane road peppered by occasional crumbling farmhouses. This conservative hamlet in...

Statetap: JeffCo students mull school board recall drive

JeffCo Students for Change organized a rally in Clement Park to consider throwing the bums out. Not related: Colorado breweries rocked this year's Great American Beer Festival, of course.