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Group explores shifting Colorado to a presidential primary

  Republicans and Democrats alike said they wanted Colorado to have a presidential primary after a messy caucus night in March. With no legislative solution...

Civics test bill fails on final Senate roll-call vote

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Todd Engdahl on April 5, 2016 The bill to require high school students to pass a civics test to...

Is Adams County the new bellwether for Colorado politics?

  The winner of Adams County’s House and Senate races will likely determine which Party controls Colorado’s legislature. State GOP Chair Steve House, who hails from the...

Delete child victims’ names from police records, lawmakers say

The names of children who are victims of serious crimes should be deleted from criminal justice records before those records are released to the...

Neville slams Planned Parenthood, glorifies guns at campaign kickoff

Tim Neville officially launched his U.S. Senate run Tuesday night, blasting Planned Parenthood, Obamacare and the EPA.   If you love unregulated guns, want to destroy Planned Parenthood...

New study: Nondiscrimination laws don’t hurt small businesses

Republican lawmakers have been arguing that nondiscrimination protections hurt small businesses.  The Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee wrangled with the issue this winter when Sen. Laura Woods (R-Arvada)...

Renegade GOP Sen. Laura Woods looks to the 2016 elections with...

State Sen. Laura Woods shared the stage with her former political rival Lang Sias at the Tri-City Baptist Church in Westminster on July 14. From their...

Reader’s view: Sen. Laura Woods flunks Common Core 101

To the Editor: Statements by Sen. Laura Woods in a recent Colorado Independent article prompted me here to address some inaccuracies. She states incorrectly that...

Democrats’ ‘liberty-minded’ foe Sen. Laura Woods talks bills, kills and conundrums

“So we started this session with Dems saying they were going to take me out,” Republican Sen. Laura Woods said, opening a community meeting...

Colorado’s top five stand-your-ground Republicans whose votes defied GOP leadership

They voted against reforming police training and transparency. They voted against a pricey flood-and-fire-prevention system. They voted against expanding public services for kids with autism....