DENVER – The Secretary of State’s office announced this morning that two initiatives designed to harm Colorado’s energy industry have failed to qualify for this November’s ballot.Initiatives 75 and 78 required 98,942 valid signatures from Colorado voters in order to make the ballot. Initiative 75, a measure that would have given local governments the authority

​DENVER — The campaign to increase Colorado’s minimum wage to $12 an hour is working overtime to fix what it claims are “clerical errors.” Earlier today, Compass Colorado highlighted that the campaign reported 24 of their workers were paid less than the $12 an hour proponents are attempting to codify into the Colorado constitution.“The union-funded campaign to force

DENVER – The campaign to increase the minimum wage to $12 in Colorado reportedly didn't even pay many of their own campaign workers that amount to get the measure on the ballot. According to a circulator and wage report filed with the Colorado Secretary of State's office by the campaign, 24 of the workers out collecting signatures

DENVER – In a huge blow to the campaign that seeks to turn Colorado’s health care system into a government-run socialized-medicine albatross, liberal advocacy group Progress Now has announced that it will oppose the ballot measure this fall.The news came as a surprise to many, including proponents of Amendment 69. State Sen. Irene Aguilar, D-Denver, who was

DENVER – The Secretary of State’s office announced this morning that an initiative designed to increase Colorado’s minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2020 has qualified for this November’s ballot.Colorado voters will now decide the measure’s fate. Countless studieshave demonstrated the severely harmful effects of across-the-board minimum wage hikes, particularly to those for whom the policy seeks

DENVER — The radical environmental issue committee, YES FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY OVER FRACKING, turned in petitions for two anti-fracking measures to the Colorado Secretary of State last week. Reports have surfaced that the petitions may be lacking, and efforts are likely driven by out of state interests, but we now know the operations are financed in

DENVER — Former Colorado State Rep. Jenise May told The Colorado Independent yesterday she was unaware she could not be both a candidate for office and a staff member for the Speaker of the state House at the same time. According to the Independent:The next year, she ran for state Senate and stirred controversy when she

DENVER — News broke early this week that the Obama administration arranged an airlift of $400 million in cash to the government of Iran in January, suspiciously timed with Iran’s release of four American citizens it held captive. While Obama Administration officials deny any link between the two events, senior members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard beg

DENVER — State Representative Daniel Kagan, D-Englewood, finds himself in hot water for backtracking on his support of Amendment 69, a multi-billion dollar socialized medicine tax increase proposal that Colorado voters will decide upon this November.Kagan, a former teamster, is running for a state Senate seat this fall, and faces a formidable opponent in popular Arapahoe County

DENVER — The Democratic candidate for November’s CU Regent at Large race announced this week that she has accepted a six-figure job at the very university she is running to oversee.Alice Madden, the former Democratic House Majority Leader, will take over as executive director of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment