Colorado secretary of state orders mandatory recount in House District 16 race

Colorado secretary of state orders mandatory recount in House District 16 race

Colorado election officials must recount more than 40,000 ballots cast in El Paso County’s House District 16 as Republican Rebecca Keltie holds a six-vote lead over incumbent Democratic Rep. Stephanie Vigil. The recount, already a certainty in the razor-thin race, was made official in an order from Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Monday … Read more

Colorado Republican Party, Dave Williams leadership fight gets trial date in court

Colorado Republican Party, Dave Williams leadership fight gets trial date in court

The Colorado Republican Party’s ongoing leadership dispute could finally conclude in a three-day trial set for mid-October. In August, long-simmering tensions in the state GOP reached a boil when competing factions organized dueling votes on whether to oust Dave Williams from leadership. One faction voted overwhelming to remove Williams and replace him with former Olympian … Read more

Judge allows Colorado Republicans to meet to remove Dave Williams

Judge allows Colorado Republicans to meet to remove Dave Williams

A group of Colorado Republicans is moving ahead with a plan to boot party chairman Dave Williams after a judge ruled that his court lacked jurisdiction to block it. Tuesday evening’s ruling reversed an earlier temporary order by the same judge that blocked the disaffected Republicans from conducting official business. El Paso County vice chair … Read more

Lauren Boebert warns Colorado GOP chair Dave Williams of ousting

Lauren Boebert warns Colorado GOP chair Dave Williams of ousting

A planned attempt to oust the head of the Colorado Republican Party this weekend was put on hold Friday by a district court judge — but not before calls for Dave Williams’ removal reached new peaks. Williams, whose tenure as the GOP chair has been marked by controversy and months of growing intraparty frustrations, faced … Read more

Ike McCorkle posts big fundraising in bid to face Lauren Boebert

Ike McCorkle posts big fundraising in bid to face Lauren Boebert

Colorado’s latest congressional campaign fundraising snapshot — the final one before the June 25 primary — showed new and intriguing dynamics emerging to stir things up in a high-profile presidential election year. But some things have stayed the same — including in U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s current district, long after she announced she would run … Read more

Call for Dave Williams’ ouster as Colorado GOP chair sparks reprimand

Call for Dave Williams’ ouster as Colorado GOP chair sparks reprimand

A push to oust Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams has led to the formal censure of the petition’s circulator — the Jefferson County party chair — and an apparent nullification of the effort by her own executive committee. Nancy Pallozzi started the petition last week. It lists several concerns with Williams’ leadership, including the party … Read more

Trashing “America’s Mountain,” Pikes Peak

Trashing “America’s Mountain,” Pikes Peak

As most Coloradans know, the lyrics to “America the Beautiful” were inspired by a trek to the summit of Pikes Peak via prairie wagon in 1893. But when Katharine Lee Bates penned a poem called “Pikes Peak,” which became an American anthem after it was set to music in 1910, she could scarcely have imagined … Read more

Lauren Boebert, Adam Frisch outpace others in campaign fundraising

Lauren Boebert, Adam Frisch outpace others in campaign fundraising

Democrat Adam Frisch brought in the biggest financial haul of any of Colorado’s congressional hopefuls during the first three months of the year, raising $1.4 million — nearly six times as much as his main Republican rival in the 3rd Congressional District, Jeff Hurd. And U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, after switching in December from the … Read more

Bills in Colorado legislature take aim at poor Front Range air quality

Bills in Colorado legislature take aim at poor Front Range air quality

Democratic state legislators on Thursday rolled out an ambitious suite of bills aimed at improving the Front Range’s air quality — among the worst in the nation — by taking specific aim at the oil and gas industry. The three bills will focus on curbing toxic emissions from oil and gas drilling sites by changing … Read more

25 adventures for your Colorado winter bucket list

25 adventures for your Colorado winter bucket list

This is more than a non-skier’s guide to winter in Colorado or a roundup of cool après-ski activities. This is my ultimate Colorado winter bucket list for epic off-slopes fun. Make this winter your season of adventure by trying some — or all — of these 23 unique experiences. Broome Hut. (Denver Post file photo) … Read more