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Statetap: Plugging a mine; plugging for Udall

State workers stopped up an abandoned mine that spews toxic heavy metals into the Peru Creek — a tributary of Snake River which ends up in Dillon Reservoir — in Summit County last week. Will the work finally stop the spewing?

DemocracyNow! on Colorado’s top two election races, featuring Mike Littwin

Colorado politics is U.S. politics in miniature and not at all pleasant. Yet! Littwin and Goodman manage to make the state of affairs interesting and entertaining.

Littwin: Another easy question; another apparent whopper of a white lie

  The question in the 9News Senate debate was half-softball, half-gotcha and the answers, by themselves, meant little in the greater scheme of things. Except for...

Udall ad depicts privacy advocate battling Bush, Obama

  The Mark Udall campaign has taken a break from its reproductive-rights-themed campaign, notoriously labeled "obnoxious" by The Denver Post, with an ad that touts the senator's...

Littwin: It’s bigger than personhood, Mr. Gardner

  Let's say, for argument's sake, that the prime-time 9News Senate debate, which was broadcast on Channel 20, actually got a decent audience (I doubt...

Watch: In debate, Gardner again dodges question about his both-ways stand...

  In a 9News debate last night -- the last debate of the campaign -- Republican Congressman Cory Gardner, who is running to...

Denver Post endorses Gardner in U.S. Senate race

  The Denver Post, Colorado's paper of record, endorsed Republican Congressman Cory Gardner on Friday in his race to unseat incumbent U.S. Democratic Senator Mark...

Littwin: Raucous Pueblo crowd wins U.S. Senate debate

  PUEBLO -- It was the best debate of the season, which says something about Pueblo, something about the raucous crowd, something about the moderator...

In last-stretch Pueblo face-off, Udall, Gardner fire up supporters

In Pueblo, the moderator left it to the candidates to hold each other accountable. It didn't work. Boos and hisses abounded after every non-answer.

Gardner candidacy increasingly marked by personhood dodge

  Today brings another two chapters in one of the most absurd story lines unfolding in Colorado election politics this year. Bloomberg reporter Josh Green...