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FOX 31's Julie Hayden: The Denver District Attorney's Office has decided not to pursue charges against Colorado State Rep. Laura Bradford for allegedly possessing a firearm while intoxicated. DA spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough told FOX31 Denver Monday afternoon that prosecutors looked at the "totality of the evidence" and determined they could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. DUI c...
Colorado Pols - 5:03 p.m. - 5 clicks 
The Ft. Collins Coloradoan has the news from a statement issued by Republican Rep. B.J. Nikkel : "While I am disappointed that Democrats on the Reapportionment Commission gerrymandered Brian (DelGrosso) and me into the same district, I am very proud of what we have accomplished in the state House," Nikkel stated in a news release. Nikkel now represents District 49 in the Colorado House. Th...
Colorado Pols - 3:08 p.m. - 9 clicks
Los Angeles Times: Newt Gingrich waited until the day before Colorado's Republican presidential contest to start campaigning here, and -- as if to make up for lost time -- took the guns-blazing approach upon arrival. The former House speaker opened a rally here in this Denver suburb today with an assault on Mitt Romney, closed it with a racially tinged attack on President Obama's economic p...
Colorado Pols - 2:08 p.m. - 7 clicks
As the Grand Junction Sentinel's Gary Harmon reports: Santorum, who served two terms in the Senate, pointed to a Rasmussen poll that showed him two points ahead of the president in a head-to-head matchup and said he was the best person in the GOP field to clearly differentiate himself from Obama's policies. He pointed in particular to the health care system shepherded by one of Santorum's...
Colorado Pols - 11:02 a.m. - 9 clicks
Even people like Colorado Sen. Greg Brophy, who's told me he's willing to put the health, and even lives, of poverty-stricken kids at risk by charging more for state health insurance, says it's hard to decide what to do about Medicaid, given the complexities involved and the struggles of the poor, especially kids. That's the tenor of the debate about cutting Medicaid in Colorado. It's not...
Colorado Pols - 10:00 a.m. - 9 clicks
It's caucus time in Colorado, so we want your predictions. As always, we're interested in what you think will happen tomorrow -- not in your preference. Vote after the jump... ...
Colorado Pols - 9:46 a.m. - 8 clicks
Even people like Colorado Sen. Greg Brophy, who's told me he's willing to put the health, and even lives, of poverty-stricken kids at risk by charging more for state health insurance, says it's hard to decide what to do about Medicaid, given the complexities involved and the struggles of the poor, especially kids. That's the tenor of the debate about cutting Medicaid in Colorado. It's not like ...
SquareState - 9:23 a.m. - 22 clicks
Out Front Colorado's Nic Garcia: One Colorado, the group leading the lobbying effort for civil unions here, has repeatedly pledged to support any lawmaker - Republican or Democrat - who supports relationship recognition legislation. This week, campaign finance reports show the group has made good on its promise. Two Republican state senators, Jean White, R-Hayden, and Ellen Roberts, R-Dur...
Colorado Pols - Sat 7:24 a.m. - 13 clicks
Mitt Romney apparently isn't making himself available to real journalists in Colorado, in advance of Tuesday's GOP caucus, but he called into conservative talk-radio shows today, where, predictably, he found a copasetic environment, free of annoying follow-up questions. That's unfortunate, because Romney said a few things that deserve a closer look by reporters, if they ever get access to Romney....
Colorado Pols - Sat 6:45 a.m. - 12 clicks
In what appears at first blush from headline to the last quarter of the story, a rehash of the rift between Bradford and McNulty, we find out that Bradford is staying on for now. http://www.gjsentinel.com/news... According to the Sentinel's Charles Ashby, ...Bradford plans to defend herself before that ethics panel and challenge the traffic citations issued by Denver police. She also decide...
Colorado Pols - Sat 6:06 a.m. - 16 clicks
The C-27J program was a fixed wing aircraft that could carry large transport helicopter sized loads for the Army over longer ranges at greater speeds with more fuel efficiency than a helicopter and could takeoff and land from field airstrips. It did everything a transport helicopter did better in situations where field airstrips were available at both ends, which they frequently are in cargo runs....
Wash Park Prophet - Fri 5:20 p.m. - 14 clicks
The major snowstorm that hit Denver today has kept everyone indoors, at least for a while. We take it differently. My wife, a Pilates instructor, and my son, an avid cross country runner and soccer player in season, are bouncing off the walls. When they don't get their regular exercise fixes they get an intense physical and emotional craving to work out. My son ranges wildly around the house, ...
Wash Park Prophet - Fri 8:41 a.m. - 13 clicks
UPDATE: Sen. Brandon Shaffer's release: LONGMONT: Today, Brandon Shaffer put an end to rumors that he would change directions and run in the 6th Congressional District. "While I appreciate the offers of support from those who asked me to consider running in CD6, I live in CD4, I understand CD4, and I plan to represent CD4 in Congress. In truth, this was an easy decision. My wife works at t...
Colorado Pols - Thu 4:27 p.m. - 14 clicks
A major snowstorm bearing down on Denver has closed the Colorado General Assembly Friday. Barring anything unexpected, Rep. Laura Bradford (?-Collbran) will drive home this evening, and decide some time this weekend whether or not to disaffiliate from the Republican Party--and if she does, whether to become and independent or, as has been reported a possibility, a Democrat. There's really no...
Colorado Pols - Thu 4:27 p.m. - 11 clicks
Is this Gov. John Hickenlooper's first actual defeat? Denver Business Journal: Pinnacol board vice chairman John Plotkin sent Hickenlooper a letter Thursday morning saying that the company felt it needed to slow down what has been a fast-moving process. Several members of a governor's task force examining the privatization plan had made the complaint that things were moving too quickly at ...
Colorado Pols - Thu 2:23 p.m. - 12 clicks
Via the former Colorado Senator's "protected" Twitter feed, here is a match absolutely, positively made in proper noun Heaven. Dave Schultheis (right), who serves on the state steering committee for Rick Santorum (left). Maybe the frothiest mixture ever concocted: Because we assume Santorum's staff monitors Google, here are some helpful links to articles that help elucidate who's hugging t...
Colorado Pols - Thu 11:41 a.m. - 14 clicks
The Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby updates the Rep. Laura Bradford saga: "I'm frustrated and disappointed in the speaker of the House when last Friday on the phone, when we were discussing this, he said, 'You're toast,'" Bradford said. "This isn't about the last seven days. This has been going on for the past 15 months..." Regardless of the department's exoneration of Bradford,...
Colorado Pols - Thu 8:05 a.m. - 15 clicks
Returns from 79 percent of Florida's precincts showed Romney with 47 percent of the vote to 32 percent for Gingrich, the former House speaker. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had 13 percent, and Texas Rep. Ron Paul 7 percent. From here . Next up is the Nevada caucus, a week long event in Maine starting Saturday, and a week from today Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota Republicans get a sa...
Wash Park Prophet - Tue 7:24 p.m. - 12 clicks
Two Colorado education and the economy stories to deal with today. First is the outrage of a soaring University of Colorado tuition increase being used in part to pay for raises for six figure administrators and bureaucrats.CU tuition hike funded......
Dave Chandler - Jan 30 - 15 clicks
Denver occupiers took to the streets last night in solidarity with OCCUPYs nationwide to protest the brutal January 27 clampdown on an attempted squat in Oakland, California. My favorite chant of the evening was “THEY SAY GET BACK, WE SAY FUCK THAT!” but by the march’s end it was DPD officers who were told to [...]...
Not My Tribe - Jan 30 - 20 clicks
Rumor has it CO Senator Brandon Shaffer, current candidate for CD4, will be deciding this week whether or not to jump into the CD6 race, abandoning his campaign in CD4. My guess is, he's waiting for CO Representative Joe Miklosi's numbers to come out from the last quarter. For those who have not been paying close attention, Colorado's CD4 became less easily winnable as a result of recent Congressi...
SquareState - Jan 29 - 8 clicks
Rumor has it CO Senator Brandon Shaffer, current candidate for CD4, will be deciding this week whether or not to jump into the CD6 race, abandoning his campaign in CD4. My guess is, he’s waiting for CO Representative Joe Miklosi’s numbers to come out from the last quarter. For those who have not been paying close attention, Colorado’s CD4 became less easily winnable as a result of recent Congres...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 29
The United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, based in Denver, has upheld the constitutionality of the Stolen Valor Act, which makes it a misdemeanor to make false statements made about the military honors one has obtained. It did so by first clarifying that the statute is being interpreted narrowly, in an effort to preserve its constitutionality. As construed, it applies only to st...
Wash Park Prophet - Jan 27 - 3 clicks
OCCUPIED COLORADO SPRINGS- Ft Carson’s environmental PR team held what’s called a “draft Environmental Assessment,” prerequisite to their addition of a Combat Aviation Brigade to America’s “Best Hometown in the Army”. Except for a car-dealer and realtor giving their attaboys, the citizens comment section weighed solidly AGAINST expansion of war-making and ...
Not My Tribe - Jan 27 - 10 clicks
Conventional wisdom is that Mitt Romney has a far better organization than Newt Gingrich, and that’s a big part of why he’ll be the nominee. The coming terrain is supposed to benefit him, too. One friend of mine who's an expert at watching polls , Tweeted the other day, You look at the contests coming up after Florida... Nevada, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine... Caucuses, West, and North... M...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 23
Wonder if Congressman Doug Lamborn , proud Conservative and Congressman-for-Life from Colorado Springs, could explain further why we don't need the EPA at his next event. And if the free market is so virtuous, he could also explain why SUNCOR Energy shouldn't use any of its enormous profits to contain the toxic fluids still leaking into Denver's waterways. Suncor Energy Inc., Canada's ...
SquareState - Jan 21
In Governor John Hickenlooper's (Democrat of course) state of the state speech given yesterday at the Colorado capitol building, the governor put his support behind efforts to create same-sex civil unions in Colorado. ...
DailyKos (Colorado) - Jan 13
