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How Jared Polis Gets What He Wants: A Portrait in Four Parts
This is The Colorado Independent‘s complete four-part series on Jared Polis, Colorado’s Democratic nominee for governor. You can click directly to Part 1 (Polis’s early years and business career), Part...
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The privilege and promise of Walker Stapleton An elite East Coast background,...
This is the first in a four-part series about Colorado’s Republican nominee for governor. On Friday, Walker Stapleton’s business career. On Saturday, his time as state treasurer and, on Sunday, his...
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This is the second in a four-part series about Colorado’s Republican nominee for governor. Read part one here. Walker Stapleton cites his business success as a reason to elect him governor. “I am...
View ArticlePedigree and political ambition launched Walker Stapleton into the...
This is the third in a four-part series about Colorado’s Republican nominee for governor. Read part one and part two. No issue has defined Walker Stapleton’s two terms as state treasurer more than his...
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His last two elections were GOP waves. This year Walker Stapleton could be...
This is the final installment of a four-part series about Colorado’s Republican nominee for governor. Read part one, part two and part three. Walker Stapleton is no happy warrior on the campaign trail....
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Ask the Indy: Analyzing seven big questions about Colorado’s ballot fight...
Colorado Independent readers John Fielder and Daniel Montaño were among several who wanted us to look more closely at Proposition 112. If you have questions related to Colorado’s mid-term elections,...
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PARCHED: Climate change and growth are pushing Colorado toward a water crisis...
Editor’s note: This story is the latest in The Colorado Independent’s ongoing series, PARCHED, which tracks Colorado’s water plan and water supplies in the state. Colorado had plenty of reasons to...
View ArticleThe Indycator – Littwin: Election Day!
Welcome back to our new series, The Indycator, a once-a-week conversation between The Indy’s crack political reporters and Maeve Conran, KGNU independent community radio’s director of news and public...
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Court secrecy, a handcuffed journalist, ‘Access Denied’: CFOIC’s...
Two words come to mind when looking back at 2018’s government transparency highlights and lowlights in Colorado. Judicial secrecy. In June, the Colorado Supreme Court baffled many legal experts when it...
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Pioneering disability rights attorney Carrie Ann Lucas dies
Editor’s note: Carrie Ann Lucas, a nationally known disability rights attorney and mother of four, died today, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. She was 47. Lucas’s death was announced on her Facebook page by...
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In presidential run, Colorado’s Hickenlooper pushes compromise in an...
It is a late Friday afternoon in early February and passengers at Gate 12 of Washington’s Reagan National Airport are displeased. “Fucking United,” a lawyer-lobbyist gripes when hearing that his flight...
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Decision Dissected: What regents say they knew – and didn’t – about CU...
It was early April and the University of Colorado’s Board of Regents hunkered down for a second day at Denver International Airport’s Westin Hotel interviewing prospects for the school’s next...
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“Beyond Reform”: What Michael Hancock has – and hasn’t – fixed in Denver’s...
Late last August, Mayor Michael Hancock and his top safety officials held a news conference to celebrate what they called “a major milestone” in Denver’s long troubled Sheriff Department. They were...
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GEO-run Aurora ICE Detention Center is isolating immigrants – some mentally...
The former ICE detainee agreed to talk under one condition: That he be called “Elvis.” The Salvadoran with a pompadour and an “I’d rather be in Memphis” T-shirt was pacing and singing to nobody in...
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Through the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a rural town’s silence...
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part collaboration between The Colorado Independent and The Rio Blanco Herald Times. We will post the second part tomorrow, Nov. 8. RANGELY – No one seems to...
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Through the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a rural town’s silence...
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part collaboration between The Colorado Independent and The Rio Blanco Herald Times. We posted the first part, linked here, on Thursday, Nov. 7 and advise...
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Through the Cracks: A stranger, a police shooting, and a small town’s silence...
RANGELY – No one seems to know why Daniel Pierce settled in this northwestern Colorado town last year after his wife in Missouri and mother in California kicked him out of their houses. But in the four...
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CU regents passed over more experienced and prominent applicants when picking...
The University of Colorado’s elected board of regents passed over applicants with more experience running universities and more distinguished careers when it hired conservative former Congressman Mark...
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Triggered: How one of Colorado’s smallest protests became its most violent
ALAMOSA — The protesters, about a dozen in all, gathered on June 4 in the intersection of State Avenue and Main Street. Like protesters across the country in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing by...
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