Rep. Randy Baumgardner recently had shoulder surgery and wears a sling.
When the Hot Sulphur Springs Republican is asked what happened, he likes to say that all the arm-twisting at the Capitol has taken its toll.
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Rep. Randy Baumgardner recently had shoulder surgery and wears a sling.
When the Hot Sulphur Springs Republican is asked what happened, he likes to say that all the arm-twisting at the Capitol has taken its toll.
When you read a headline really, really fast this is what you read:
"Sonnenberg steps in it at GOP breakfast."
Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg? The guy with the contagious laugh and the great sense of humor? The farmer from Sterling? What did he do?
It turned out he filled in for Sen. Josh Penry, the [...]
It was only a matter of time before our Bill Owens got confused with their Bill Owens. It happened this morning on NBC's The Today Show.
A graphic about the hotly contested congressional race in New York showed a picture of the very Republican Bill Owens, a two-term governor from Colorado. [...]
Rep. Sal Pace reports he's been busy in the off-legislative season, attending an interim committee on workers' compensation, working on a water bill, teaching an intro poli sci class and, of course ,changing diapers.
His son, Carlo Ezekiel Valdez Pace, was born in April.
The Pueblo Democrat sent his electronic newsletter with' [...]
State employees, many of whom are set to take four furlough days this year, will see four more unpaid days in 2010.
That was the message from Jim Carpenter, Gov. Bill Ritter's chief of staff, in an email to state employees this morning.
"Because you all have already done so much, it makes it [...]
When the time came to talk about recommendations at the Long-Term Fiscal Stability Commission this morning, Amy Oliver Cooke, a conservative talk show host who sits on the panel, decided she'd hedge her bets.
"Sen. Morse has said he will shoot down any of my ideas," she said, referring to Senate Majority Leader John' [...]
You gotta love Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party. Well, Pat Waak doesn't have to but ...
Let's hear it for a guy who writes the following headline on his blog: "Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams named NFL Player of the Week."
Wadhams' brief explanation" "Yes, this is an absurd headline but [...]
Craig Welling keeps making the news, and not because he works for Gov. Bill Ritter.
Welling, deputy legal counsel for Ritter, is also an amateur sports photographer who snaps pics at Rockies games. His picture of Rockies second baseman Clint Barmes' run-and-tumble catch Sunday during a game with the St. Louis' [...]
Joelle Martinez, the spokeswoman for Democrat Andrew Romanoff's senatorial campaign, was told she couldn't get pregnant. Eight surgeries and countless prayers later, she's pregnant with twins.
"They told me I would never have kids," she said. "They told me to stop trying."
Martinez and her husband of five years, Jason Prutch, had tried for...
The words "beautiful" and "Douglas County" aren't usually used in the same sentence.
They can be -- if you visit former state Sen. Tom Wiens' ranch, located south and west of Castle Rock.
Wiens hosted the Douglas County Republican Party picnic Saturday, where organizers said they had a bigger turnout than [...]
Gov. Bill Ritter says he would have been better off politically if he'd picked former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Democrat Ken Salazar.
But the governor, speaking on the Mike Rosen Show this morning, also said he's sticking by his appointment of Michael Bennet' [...]
"This is awesome. I love this state."
And with that, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet pulled over to the side of Highway 385 between Wray and Burlington and walked into a field of sunflowers.
The Denver Democrat is touring the Eastern Plains this week before hearing back to Congress next week.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet is hitting the Eastern Plains this week, talking about health care, energy and whatever else Coloradans want to discuss.
Along the way, Coloradans fed the Denver Democrat cinamon rolls and plenty of stories about life on the farms.
When Rep. Andy Kerr and his very pregnant wife, Tammy, showed up at a recent fundraiser for Sen. Pat Steadman, she said she felt like it was "any day now."
That day turned out to be Saturday, Aug. 29, when Griffin Andrew McClure Kerr arrived at 12:08 p.m., weighing 7 pounds, [...]
Ken Salazar's known for his trademark cowboy hat -- he even appeared on The Daily Show wearing one and brought another for host Jon Stewart - but he showed up in Colorado this week wearing a baseball cap.
But the cap certainly has local appeal: the logo included a buffalo. The [...]
A state Constitutional amendment banning political donations from businesses, non-profits and unions that receive no-bid government contracts has vaulted the appeals process and will head straight to the state Supreme Court.
A district court judge in June suspended Amendment 54, saying it was too broad and stifled political speech without providing [...]
Eleven windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters on Santa Fe Drive were shattered early this morning in a vandalism spree that party Chairwoman Pat Waak blamed on animosity surrounding the health care debate.
Sometime before 3 a.m. a vandal apparently used a hammer to smash the picture windows, which were [...]
When it comes to Colorado's budget crisis, Rep. Cheri Gerou says the first step is admitting the state has a problem.
Gerou, R-Evergreen, said today during a meeting of the Long-Term Fiscal Stability Commission that the state's current budget woes might actually be therapeutic. The state faces a more than $300 million shortfall in [...]
Pres. Barack Obama has found an unlikely fan among Colorado Republicans: self-described "humble innkeeper" and House Minority Leader Mike May.
"I love Barack Obama," May said. "I mean, I loooove Barack Obama."
So why the bipartisan change of heart?
May owns a series of Holiday Inn Expresses and had just opened a new [...]
Colorado's newest state senator took his oath of office this afternoon, making Hesperus civil engineer Bruce Whitehead the sixth lawmaker appointed in the current general assembly.
Whitehead replaces former Sen. Jim Isgar, a Democrat who left his largely Republican Senate District 6 in June to take a job in the Obama [...]
What do you do if you've climbed all of Colorado's "14ers?" Well, if you're Mark Udall, you start climbing the "13.9ers."
The U.S. senator missed a Project New West summit in Denver today because he was keeping a promise made a while ago to his 22-year-old son Jed: They'd go hiking this' [...]
John Salazar's campaign slogan when he ran for office in 2004 was "Send a farmer to Congress," and when he's home from Washington he still does farm chores.
The Manassa Democrat arrived at the Project New West Summit in Denver today "refreshed" after a couple of days of raking and baling [...]
Numbers guru Secretary of State Bernie Buescher turns out to be a gadget guy, too.
The retired accountant got himself a Kindle two weeks ago, and has already started a lengthy reading list, including the works of
Insurance broker Jamie Scholl livened up a wonky hearing at the Capitol today of the Health Care Task Force with his explanation of gender disparities in health care costs.
Testifying about health care access and affordability, Scholl, a former president of the Colorado State Association of Health Underwriters, was asked by [...]
Secretary of State Bernie Buescher today halted rule-making on an under-siege Constitutional amendment that would ban sole source contract holders, the executives who oversee companies with sole source contracts and their extended families from
State Rep. Cory Gardner bought a pig Monday at the Yuma County junior livestock sale.
The Yuma Republican got a kick out of the auctioneer asking whether the lawmaker his own violated his "no pork" rule.
Former state Sen. Norma Anderson was a tough act to follow Wednesday during testimony before the Long-Term Fiscal Stability Commission.
Anderson, a Lakewood Republican who left the Senate in 2006 after 19 years in the legislature, testified about conflicting constitutional measures and potential fixes to Colorado's budget problems.
Sen. Rollie Heath will be back at the Capitol on Friday following his surgery Tuesday to remove a small cancerous tumor from his esophagus.
Heath, D-Boulder, stepped aside Tuesday afternoon as chairman of the Long-Term Fiscal Stability Commission to have the surgery. He was optimistic about the results.
For years it has been called the state Department of Labor and Employment, but the agency was unwittingly given a new name today.
Because of an editing error, a front-page story in the Denver Post referred to it as the Department of Labor and Unemployment.
Sen. Rollie Heath announced today he would have to temporarily hand over chairman duties for the Long-Term Fiscal Stability Commission to the panel's vice chairman, Rep. Mark Ferrandino.
Health, D-Boulder, said he was going to have surgery to remove a cancerous growth on his esophagus.
Heath said he expected a full recovery after the operation, but said [...]
A committee looking into Pinnacol Assurance will start holding hearings Tuesday on how the quasi-governmental workers' compensation insurer operates and what its future should be.
In the meantime, Sen. Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, the chairwoman of the interim committee examining Pinnacol, is asking injured workers whose claims have been handled by Pinnacol to share their...
Wanted: Someone to take a few funny potshots at former Congressman Tom Tancredo.
Oh, the material. The man who pushed term limits in Colorado breaking his term-limits pledge. The guy known for making illegal immigration a national hot-button issue hiring illegal immigrants to finish his basement. The man with a great [...]
Gov. Bill Ritter is asking all Democratic lawmakers to come to the governor's mansion on Tuesday to talk about the budget.
The state started off the current fiscal year that began July 1 with a $384 million shortfall, and legislative analysts expect the state might have to cut another $500 million [...]
Another Colorado paradox:
At the Downtown Democratic Forum monthly breakfast, salsa is available for the scrambled eggs.
At the Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Colorado, there is no salsa, just ketchup and Tobasco sauce.
That detail was pointed out to Democrat Denis Berckefeldt...
Acclaimed PBS series Antiques Roadshow Friday delves into the state's vaults of unclaimed and forgotten property at the state Capitol to appraise the jewelry that Coloradans have left behind.
The show, described as "part adventure, part history lesson and part treasure hunt" by host Treasurer Cary Kennedy's office, hasn't been to' [...]
