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Local politicians rally around a new print paper in the Springs,...

Journalists are the "enemy of the people." The "failing New York Times." Fake news, Yadda, yadda. We've heard it all from President Donald Trump and his dedicated fans....

Littwin: OK, let’s agree Tancredo is a sure thing, but maybe...

If Colorado Republicans didn’t understand how much trouble they were in before Tom Tancredo jumped into the governor’s race— and they did, believe me...

Littwin: If Hick, Tancredo are actually up and running, give the...

As if to prove that desperate times do, in fact, call for desperate measures, I bring you the latest in desperate-sounding Colorado political news...

Hundreds in Colorado Springs packed the launch party of a new...

Call it the Trump effect in Trump country. Hundreds flocked Tuesday evening to fill the Stargazers theater in heavily conservative Colorado Springs for the launch...

TABOR lawsuit is back, stronger than ever

After suffering a major setback earlier this year, the legal team trying to repeal Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights amendment is back and charging...

Koch brothers convene in a city full of reminders of a...

  COLORADO SPRINGS — Drive through the downtown streets in Colorado’s second largest city and you’ll see signs reading “2C” and “Your Tax Dollars At...

John Suthers: I don’t understand some Republicans on the hospital provider...

  COLORADO SPRINGS — Lawmakers wrap up their work in Denver next week, but the largest battle waged during the legislative session remains in a...

Colorado Springs admits it ran debtors prisons, coughs up $100K to...

  COLORADO SPRINGS — People too poor to pay fines will no longer work off their debts by sitting in Colorado Springs jail cells, and...

Hospital provider fee becoming a campaign issue in Colorado

  CENTENNIAL, CO — Larry Crowder, a Republican senator representing a rural district in southeastern Colorado, is running simultaneously for re-election and straight into the year's biggest...

Lawyers for two ex-Colorado governors say Hickenlooper hospital plan is legal

  As Coloradans wait for an opinion from Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman over what's become the biggest political debate in Colorado, two former executive branch lawyers are weighing in with their...