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East Colfax group launches fund for businesses that haven’t received emergency...

An advocacy group along a stretch of East Colfax in Denver launched a relief fund on Thursday for small businesses — many of which...

Checking in on restaurant owners and workers three weeks after shutdown...

It's been three weeks since Terry Walsh called the employees of his Centennial barbecue restaurant into his office and, one by one, laid them...

‘It was one of the top five worst days of my...

As his employees showed up for work at Rolling Smoke Barbecue on Saturday, owner Terry Walsh called them into his office, one by one,...

GREG LOPEZ | A ‘taste-test’ candidate counts on personal touch to...

In the world of conventional political wisdom — a world to which he pays no mind — Greg Lopez’s chances of winning the Republican...

Senate advances repeal of Colorado Civil Rights Act

Republicans in the Senate again used their new majority to strike out at a measure passed during the 2013 Democratic super-majority session.

An emotional cyberbully debate; veterans’ business bill goes to Gov; money...

Notes from the General Assembly's 64th day in the 2014 legislative session.

Bennet celebrates Dem-backed small business legislation

DENVER-- At InterTech's spanking clean plastic molding factory in an industrial park near the airport here, Sen. Michael Bennet and Intertech President Noel Ginsburg celebrated the effects of small business legislation supported by Congressional Democrats and signed into law by the President at the end of September.

Recovery planners fail to harness small business power

Bloomingdale is gentrifying. Ten years ago, the pretty neighborhood in central Washington, D.C., with the brightly painted Victorian townhouses and wide tree-lined streets was plagued by drugs, robberies and gang violence. Today those problems are greatly reduced, thanks in part to the efforts of the neighborhood’s tight-knit community of black families and young professionals. In the past five years, residents cleaned up the streets, developed two new parks and a small urban farm and watched their home values rise.

Bennet on health reform offers calm and steady in a storm...

Only Sen. Michael Bennet can deliver a full-contact well-supported muscular line on health care like "The status quo is eating people alive all across...

Musgrave Holds Congressional Hearing; Local Media Starry-Eyed

Rep. Marilyn Musgrave held a hearing in Loveland yesterday to take public comment on health care reform. Today, The Coloradan published Hearing gives Musgrave...