Patrick Neville’s seat is safe, but is his leadership title? With Colorado’s primary election just two weeks away, statehouse campaigns to be the major party nominees are heating up. The competition is particularly fierce among the Republican races, where so-called dark money groups are spending unprecedented amounts of money.
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Pandemic Sends Energy Industry Officials to Washington Seeking Help
WASHINGTON — Energy industry leaders urged the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday to deem their workers essential and consider federal investments to prevent a potentially crashing domino effect.
100 More Ballot Boxes for Colorado’s November Election
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced a program yesterday to provide funding for up to 100 additional ballot-drop boxes for the November General Election.
Plagiarism Expert: University of Colorado Regent Chance Hill Should Set an “Example”
After Chance Hill, who sits on the University of Colorado’s governing board, wrote a Facebook post that contains multiple clauses taken verbatim from the writing of pundit George Will, a University of Colorado professor thinks Hill is “now very well placed” to take part in a public discussion of how to “face up to our missteps when we confuse the boundaries of intellectual property.”
In Colo Congressional Race, Both Candidates See Systemic Racism But the Republican Says It’s Mostly Caused by Democrats
As Black Lives Matter and police brutality protests continue throughout the country, voters in Colorado’s 7th Congressional District have another issue to consider.
Former Colo Candidate for Governor, Doug Robinson, who’s Mitt Romney’s Nephew, Supports Police Reform
Former Colorado GOP governor candidate Doug Robinson, a nephew of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), has followed in his uncle’s footsteps with a public Facebook post calling for police reform.
Republicans Don’t Bother to Run a Candidate for CU Regent Post
No Republican candidate stepped forward to challenge the lone Democrat, Nolbert Chavez, who’s running to represent a swath of suburbs outside of Denver on the University of Colorado Board of Regents, the governing body of the university.
Colorado Partners With AmeriCorps to Fight COVID
Over 800 AmeriCorps members will assist local health officials in Colorado’s COVID-19 response, Governor Jared Polis (D-CO) announced last week.
Faith Groups to Encourage Members to “Use Their Votes” to Advance Police Reform
Colorado faith leaders are requesting immediate reforms aimed at stopping police violence in Denver–and they will try to put the votes of their members behind their demands.
The Colorado Senate’s Lone Opponent of a Proposed Police Reform Law
By a vote of 32-1, a Colorado police reform bill, which aims to limit the use of force and increase police accountability and transparency, passed the state Senate this week, with Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling) as its lone opposer.