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 parents and an online protest petition signed by nearly 200 people so far.
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 projects, a controversial proposal to expand an oil shipping facility in Utah, would significantly increase hazardous rail shipments through Colorado.
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 in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, because he doesn’t pay much attention to what’s happening in Washington, D.C.
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 Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB)and the recent emergence of a MAGA primary challenger in 2026.
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 booming tech sector has launched a bipartisan push for a nuclear energy renaissance.
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 age 12 – is fighting to make sure the constitutional rights of those workers and families are upheld by state law as the Trump administration pushes for mass deportations.
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 divisiveness of the Dave Williams era and welcome all comers in a bid to beat Democrats.
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 news flows downhill.”
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 brain on ozone. Any questions?”
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 the collective malaise that’s coopting corporate climate activism and has been largely self-imposed – quite ingeniously — by the obfuscation efforts of the fossil fuel industry.
