Colorado Pols

Back in November, Aurora voters finally decided they were sick of a hyper-combative Republican city council and tossed the bums out, handing Republican Mayor Mike Coffman a huge loss that he commemorated with one of our favorite “No shit, Sherlock” quotes in Colorado political history. Also on the ballot in November was a question about […]

Data centers and associated electricity rate increases have become a major political issue in the last year. Expect that subject to get even more attention in the next 24 hours. As Judith Kohler reported over the weekend for The Denver Post: A proposed settlement that would cut 37% off of the electric rate increase sought […]

As the New York Times reported over the weekend, another front in Donald Trump’s cultural revolution, the push to purge historic sites of materials that fail to cast the generally white, generally male principal figures of American history in anything less than the most hagiographic light, has been stopped cold by a federal judge: A […]

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.” –Benjamin Franklin

As veteran reporter Mark Jaffe reports for the Colorado Sun, another long struggle that conservationists thought was finally over with nature as the winner has been reignited by the Trump administration: After nine years of protests and lawsuits, an agreement preserving the Roan Plateau in western Colorado from oil and gas development was reached in […]