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( – promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE #2: Washington Post, add Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a lead plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging federal health care reform, to the Koch list: He spoke at a breakfast about federalism and touted his office’s role in lawsuits against the federal government involving health care and the […]

FRIDAY UPDATE: Coverage from the Vail paper and the Colorado Independent. —– UPDATE #3: More details from Common Cause’s invitation email after the jump. —– UPDATE #2: The uber-swanky Ritz-Carlton Resort at Bachelor Gulch is the location we just got from multiple sources. We are working on confirmation now. —– UPDATE: Not much information yet, […]

An excellent set of opinions on the current state of the “Tea Party” in Colorado, published in the New York Times yesterday featuring local opinionmakers Fred Brown, Anne Hyde of Colorado College, Barry Poulson and Scott Adler of CU, Michael de Yoanna of 5280, and Robert Duffy and John Straayer of CSU. Worth reading in […]

In the last two years, as everyone who follows Colorado politics knows, major cuts have been made to the state budget as revenue declined during the recent recession. A recurring theme, given that the state legislature has been controlled by Democrats during this period of budget cutting, has been vitriolic attacks from the GOP minority […]

Funny stuff, from the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Charles Ashby: During this year’s legislative session, Rep. Ed Vigil, D-Alamosa, carried a bill to change the state designation for Mineral County. That desigation, which only the Legislature can set, determines, among other things, the pay scale for elected officials… Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, was one of those […]