Opponents of Turning Point USA in Eagle County Schools: ‘We Don’t Need To Be...
Two Turning Point USA afterschool groups have been formed and approved by school officials at public high schools in Eagle County – home to Vail and Beaver Creek ski areas – drawing opposition from...
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Colorado Threatens to Sue Trump Administration over Environmental Impacts of...
Colorado, along with 15 other states, is poised to sue the federal government for ignoring endangered species regulations in a wide range of infrastructure projects on public lands. One of those...
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Winter Supports National Guard Troops in D.C., Denies Previous Affiliation...
Colorado House Assistant Minority Leader Ty Winter said in a recent phone interview he didn’t really notice the $75 billion in extra funding for ICE or the $170 billion overall for mass deportations...
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‘Rubber Stamp for Trump’ and ‘Fake Conservative:’ West Slope CO Congressman...
Democrats say freshman Republican Congressman Jeff Hurd, a Grand Junction lawyer, is now caught between a rock and a hard-right place after his vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s One Big...
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Climate Change, Big Tech has Northwest Colorado Eyeing a Bipartisan Nuke...
Colorado has a long, dark history of failed and still highly toxic nuclear energy and weapons projects around the state, but the demand for carbon-free energy to combat climate change and fuel the...
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Ski Town Immigration Advocates Push Back on Trump Crackdown as Polis Weighs...
EDWARDS, Colo. — Colorado’s mountain resort towns would grind to a halt without immigrant labor, and Elizabeth Velasco – a state lawmaker who moved from Mexico to the mobile homes of Eagle County at...
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Two Western Slope Republicans Hope to Move Past Williams Era in Big-Tent Bids...
A pair of Western Slope Republicans vying for Colorado Republican Party leadership slots at Saturday’s statewide GOP reorganization meeting in Colorado Springs say it’s time to move past the bitter...
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As Government Shutdown Looms, Debate Focuses on Debt, Medicaid, and Tax Cuts
Mike Murphy of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) visited Colorado late last month with a simple message for the state lawmakers and business leaders he met with: “Bad...
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Ozone Analysis: Polis Pollution Problem Just Blowin’ in the Political Wind
You remember the ads from the 80s, right? “This is your brain [man holds up an egg]. This is ozone [he points to a hot skillet, cracks the egg into it, holds up the sizzling skillet]. This is your...
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Outgoing Aspen Climate Warrior Skewers Corporate Complicity in his Latest Book
In his new book, “Terrible Beauty,” Aspen’s outgoing senior vice president of sustainability, Auden Schendler, makes a compelling case for companies in the ski industry and far beyond breaking out of...
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Healthcare Costs Likely To Climb in Colorado as Trump Targets ACA
Healthcare and health insurance costs could skyrocket under the second coming of a Trump administration still seemingly bent on eliminating or at least undercutting Obamacare, consumer advocates warn,...
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Police Chief in Rural Colorado Busts Fentanyl Myths As He Works to Combat...
Rick Brandt, who’s the police chief in the northeastern Colorado town of Evans, considers himself a bit of a myth buster on the fentanyl front – a battle he’s been in the trenches of since 2007 when...
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Democrat Buerger Says His GOP Opponent Catlin Sides With Republicans Not His...
Cole Buerger, a fifth-generation Coloradan with much deeper roots in Silt than former resident and Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, said his experience fighting for democracy overseas and his...
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GOP State House Candidate Backs Trump for Prez But Blasts State Republican...
EAGLEVAIL, Colo. — Dave Williams reshaped his local Republican Party after 2020 election deniers took it over and shrank attendance by 80%. He rejected a MAGA pledge sent to him by the Colorado...
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Pointing to ‘Election Interference of the Media, Tech, Intelligence...
Pushing back on a Colorado Times Recorder story Monday based on an interview with Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans, a spokesperson for the critical 8th Congressional District (CD8) candidate’s...
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At Campaign Stop, Evans Declines To Say If He Wants To Shutter EPA and Dept....
BASALT, Colo. – In this mountain town 18 miles northwest of Aspen – far from the Front Range flatlands of Adams and Weld counties – Republican state Rep. Gabe Evans was looking for anyone to meet and...
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In Wake of CTR Report, Sheriff Backs out of Children’s Story Hour Reading of...
Following a Colorado Times Recorder story on Thursday, Eagle County Sheriff James van Beek canceled his children’s story time reading of a book by far-right extremist and “Pizzagate” conspiracy...
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Sheriff to Read Book by Antisemitic Conspiracy Theorist to Kids at Eagle Library
Eagle County’s only elected Republican, Sheriff James van Beek, will be reading a book meant for children that was written by far-right extremist and “Pizzagate” conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec this...
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In Vail, Polis Blasts ‘Worrisome’ Project 2025, SCOTUS Enviro Record
VAIL, Colo. — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday, following the launch of a state-funded geothermal project here, took on the Trump-aligned Project 2025 plans for rolling back renewables and...
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Polis: Biden Needs To ‘Show What Will Change’ To Enable Him To Win Because If...
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – It’s understandable when you host a meeting featuring actor Matthew McConaughey – and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pops in as a surprise guest – that the mundane...
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