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Moonlighting criticism in Colorado secretary of state race raises new questions...

Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams’s recent acknowledgement that he spends up to 15 hours a week moonlighting as a private attorney has come...

Littwin: How could Wayne Williams miss that the voter-fraud panel is...

It's strange enough that Wayne Williams, Colorado's Secretary of State, had to call a news conference to try to calm the political waters he...

The winner of the 2016 election in Colorado just may be...

This week, Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams finally roared. What set him off? Not claims of a rigged election. Not the signatures of dead...

This isn’t the Trump whistleblower’s first toot

  The Internet is buzzing this morning over a blog post from a woman claiming to be a former strategist for presidential candidate Donald Trump...

State Supreme Court weighs Colorado Ethics Commission’s secrecy

The Colorado Supreme Court now has two cases before it that could either affirm or weaken the authority of the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission...

Colorado is spending $343,473-plus on Scott Gessler’s $1,396.89 ethics violation

Former Secretary of State Scott Gessler's fight with the Independent Ethics Commission over how he spent $1396.89 in office has already cost Coloradans $343,473, and...

Third appeal: Scott Gessler fights his ethics charge at taxpayers’ expense...

Scott Gessler is no longer the Secretary of State, but Colorado taxpayers will keep footing the bill for his legal defense as his fight against a...

Bennet sponsors bill to strengthen voter protections

In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act — a Civil Rights Era law that ensured minorities would not face discrimination...

Appeal denied: Former Secretary of State Scott Gessler violated public trust

Former Secretary of State Scott Gessler broke the rules and violated the public trust by spending Secretary of State office money for personal and...

Wiretap: Looking at de Blasio

In the wake of the killings of two New York City police officers, the rift between the mayor the police union may make it...