- Colorado holds the dubious title of being one of the top states for outside campaign spending this election season. One report estimates three-quarters of a million dollars is spent here every day. Last year’s Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate and labor spending unleashed this flood of funds, and Colorado Public Radio’s Megan Verlee looks
- Democratsdominate Colorado’s Congressional delegation right now. ButRepublicans have high hopes for changing that come November. One of theseats they’re eyeing is Colorado’s 3rd, which John Salazar has represented for the past three terms. But he’s fighting hard to make it back to Washington for a fourth.
- Opponents of three tax-cutting, government restricting ballot measures aren’t just battling in the court of public opinion, but in the actual courts as well. They’re pursuing a campaign finance complaint over who really got the initiatives on the ballot, and where the money came from. The case has already gone on nine months, and doesn’t
- Democrat John Hickenlooper and Republican Dan Maes may be starring in one of Colorado’s strangest Gubernatorial races ever. But politics took a back seat to the issues when they met for a major Western Slope debate this weekend. Outside the meeting, ACP candidate Tom Tancredo protested his exclusion.
- The Fourmile Canyon fire burning outside Boulder has now destroyed more than 130 homes and scorched thousands of acres. Cloudy weather gave firefighters some reprieve yesterday, but temperatures and winds are both supposed to pick up today. Officials say full containment could be more than a week away.