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Broomfield homeowners sue to stop “forced pool” oil drilling under their...

A group of Broomfield homeowners on Wednesday filed a lawsuit that challenges the nearly century-old practice that allows oil and gas companies to drill...

Guest Post: Amendment 74 ― Deceptive, dangerous and anti-democratic

Proposition 112 has powerful fossil-fuel interests running scared. To protect their profits, they’re willing to destroy the ability of Colorado state and local governments...

Guest Post: Amendment 74 – A Pandora’s box of property rights...

Colorado voters this fall will consider Colorado constitutional Amendment 74 , which suggests that property owners will receive just compensation when government reduces the...

Key Colorado ballot initiatives have corporations spending tens of millions for...

Millions of dollars from special interests is going to support or fight three policy issues: a battle over how to pay for transportation needs,...

Do Denver’s homeless people deserve the same rights as Monsanto? 6...

Denver police have made headlines over the past few months by “sweeping” encampments of homeless people. And critics have spoken out – including the...

Landowner will allow rafting through property after bill sinks

The company that prompted one of the more hotly contested bills of the legislative session – House Bill 1188 dealing with commercial river rafting...

Boating bill swamped by controversy, may lead to summer of river...

A controversial commercial rafting bill - one of the most contentious issues of the just-completed legislative session - sank in choppy waters this week,...

Weekend Update: Top Stories from the Week that Was

From man camps to affirmative action and the ever-silent Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, Colorado Confidential is on the story.A profile of Ward Connerly by...