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Denver police and sheriffs’ overtime pay skyrocketed in 2015

Overtime pay at the city and County of Denver shot up 23 percent  in 2015, reports Art Kane at ColoradoWatchdog.org. Taxpayers are footing $8.6 million...

Cynthia Coffman defends gun control laws she opposes

  Cynthia Coffman is doing her job defending Colorado's gun control laws she has politically opposed. Her predecessor John Suthers did the same thing and...

Hunger striking clergy demand video of sheriffs killing inmate

The City of Denver refuses to release the footage of sheriff's deputies killing Michael Lee Marshall in the city jail. Denver pastors have launched a...

Wiretap: Law enforcement officers unite to end mass incarceration

Less incarceration 130 police chiefs, sheriffs and prosecutors joined the movement to end mass incarceration. They will be meeting with Barack Obama Thursday. "With momentum for criminal...

Colorado sheriffs, immigration activists, lawmakers join forces for ICE-detainer reform

Last summer Alejandro Menocal was about to be released from the Adams County Jail, where he had served time for dodging court fines. But...

Polis: Solution on pot is not another dead-end lawsuit but to...

This time, it's the sheriffs. Led by Larimer County's Justin Smith, sheriffs in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska say they're facing a "crisis of conscience" brought...

Littwin Weekly GOP Gov Rankings: Hick shoots self in the foot;...

It's primary week and finally there's news. We have our first-ever shakeup at the top of the Littwin Weekly GOP Governor's Race Rankings. As LeBron James so ably put it, history is made to be broken.

Littwin: Never mind secession, we got sheriffs

Welcome to Colorado, where (some) gun laws are not laws at all. Really.