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October 10, 2008
October 9, 2008
- Poll: At least one or two labor questions might have passed
- Committee funded by oil, gas companies slams tax hike
- Wolf backs raising gasoline tax, according to questionnaire
- Rowland: After the commission
- Salazar, Wolf clash on oil shale
October 8, 2008
- Local ads join political fray on TV
- Debating mass transit along I-70
- Salazar, Wolf to debate tonight
October 7, 2008
- Buescher, Bradford clash over Senate Bill 200 at HD55 debate
- Obama campaign drops millions on Colorado television advertising
- Schaffer and Amendment 52
- Udall, Schaffer discuss how they will judge the judges
- Making a list, asking voters: HD55 candidates talk transportation
- Penry, King to host dial-in forum
October 6, 2008
- Former GOP state lawmaker endorses Udall for U.S. Senate
- Roberts: Poll results don't reflect Referendum O's chances
- Wolf backs Salazar vote on economic bailout package
- Bradford eclipses '06 fundraising, still lags far behind Buescher
October 5, 2008
October 3, 2008
- McCain talks water in Pueblo
- Salazar: Bailout bill is like ‘putting a Band-Aid on a cancer'
- Poll: Penry's roads question favored to pass in November
- Analysis: Palin, Biden perform well, race remains largely unchanged
October 2, 2008
- Salazar pays tribute to Allard
- Dropped amendments will still appear on mail-in ballots
- Western senators largely endorse economic bailout plan
- Poll: Ritter remains popular
October 1, 2008
- Ciruli poll: Obama, McCain tied; Udall leading his GOP rival
- Buescher explains why he is looking ahead to 2009 session
- Statewide business group gets behind Buescher's re-election bid
September 30, 2008
- McCain campaign bets on coal
- Bradford discusses highway-funding solutions, taxes for roads
- Freedom's Watch enlists elk in its advertising against Udall
- Bradford supports using private prisons, efficiencies to trim costs
- Schaffer's Abramoff ties resurface as activists visit Colorado
- Report: King's burn rate returns
September 29, 2008
- New Obama ad dings McCain for 1922 water compact comments
- Buescher fundraising skyrockets; Bradford outspends contributions
- Blue Dogs split on bailout plan
- Salazar: ‘The bill before the House today was not acceptable to me'
- Colorado lawmakers with rough races vote against bailout
- Freedom's Watch drops nearly $660,000 into Senate contest
September 28, 2008
September 25, 2008
- Schaffer, Udall trade volleys over taxes on repatriated income
- Palin to return to Colorado
- White: Buescher-McGihon gavel tussle not unlike fight in 2001
September 24, 2008
- Colorado polling update
- Bradford's latest radio ad seizes on Chamber endorsement
- ‘The die has already been cast'
- Salazar, Wolf plan two debates
- Home state advantage?
- King: Keep the peace, drop amendments, executive order
September 23, 2008
- Salazar: The White House bailout plan is fiscally irresponsible
- Poll: Udall leads among key blocs
- May: GOP has cards to play in race to succeed Romanoff
- ‘Well, well, well'
September 22, 2008
- ‘Brucing' up a fundraising appeal
- Pollster: Obama bounces back after McCain's RNC/Palin surge
- Schaffer, Udall disagree over how to fix the country's markets
- Report: Liberal 527s rake in cash
September 21, 2008
September 19, 2008
- After the endorsement: Experts weigh in on what to do next
- 'The Fix' weighs in on mixed polling in U.S. Senate race
September 18, 2008
September 17, 2008
- Buescher tops 2006 fundraising; Bradford falls behind Caskey
- Oprah: My show is not ‘a platform for any of the candidates'
- Tipton opposes shifting highway responsibilities to locals
- GJ pol pledges to oppose moves to place Amendment 23 in statute
- Better Roads Now plans second ad buy closer to Election Day
- 'Polling' underway in HD55
September 16, 2008
- Buescher ad buy helps narrow fundraising gap in HD55 race
- Rep. Buescher on the intersection of his faith, policy positions
- GOP women to boycott Oprah
September 15, 2008
- Buescher: ‘This is unprecedented'
- Ritter comes out swinging during his Grand Junction speech
- You say ‘Ute,' he says ‘oo-tay'
- ‘A hockey mom for Obama'
September 12, 2008
- Buescher fires back at opponent's Jessica's Law comments
- Bradford: ‘Enough is enough'
- Looking back: Dole in GJ
- Reps. King, Buescher split over Amendment 59
September 11, 2008
- The outlook as oil prices slide
- Swinging through Colorado
- High court to hear arguments in mill levy freeze case
September 10, 2008
- Putting the West in the West Wing
- Ethics Watch sues conservative 527 political committees
- 1912's monster ballot
September 9, 2008
September 8, 2008
- Bradford uses Buescher's words against Buescher at Club 20
- Ritter staffer: Buescher at the forefront of rule-making revamp
- Poll: Udall, Schaffer pulling even
- The looming ad storm
- That's no bat signal
September 7, 2008
- Bradford, again, confronts the intersection of faith and politics
- McNulty: Lawmakers to target General Fund dollars for roads
September 6, 2008
- Ken Salazar responds to a 'coal' posting on his election Web site
- Speaker Romanoff beefing up on election law
- Sen. Salazar welcomes Coffman to congressional delegation
- White brings self to Club 20
September 5, 2008
- Buescher, Bradford clash on transportation, tax policy
- ‘Everything is ... spin'
- Hagan offers a preview of her ‘five minutes of fame' at Club 20
- Fuel for thought in HD57
- Oil shale debate flares up
September 4, 2008
- Penry: Online article exaggerates my fundraising for nonprofit
- Ritter: ‘It just went bonkers'
- Club 20 reduces ticket price for Buescher-Bradford debate
- SD8 pol loans himself $10,000
September 3, 2008
- Poll results likely out there in Buescher-Bradford contest
- Eating at ‘the Republican margins'
- ‘She has to get to first base tonight'
- Tipton, Hagan cash race close
- King extinguished his campaign's burn rate in August
September 2, 2008
- Bradford: We're ‘right on target'
- ‘A close race to the very end'
- IPAMS and its curious conference speaker: Sen. Ken Salazar
- Re-examining a 527 mailer on Buescher's fiscal record
- Obama's slight bounce
- Buescher PAC cashes out
August 28, 2008
- Focusing on the West
- Buescher enjoys deft speakers
- DNC to feature Olympic ‘gold'
- Almost ready for prime time
- Mayor: Denver, Colorado win
August 27, 2008
- Salazar to focus on ‘rural America' in his convention speech
- Obama girl heats up DNC
- Schaffer camp releases survey showing him, Udall tied
- Schumer: Senate Dems will not rubber stamp Obama agenda
- Ritter focuses on common concerns of Hispanics, all voters
- ‘A way to launch a reinvigorated political movement'
August 26, 2008
- NBA superstar wows Dems
- Giuliani reports a ‘very good reception' at Dem gathering
- Colorado GOP highlights its HD55 candidate on the party's Web site
- Richardson on Obama: ‘He needs to campaign more in the West'
- Pelosi on Obama's first 100 days, his energy policy
- Perlmutter: Oil shale to come, eventually and conditionally
- New McCain ad underlines Clinton comments, 3 a.m. angle
- Salazar glad Edwards will not address national convention
August 25, 2008
- Keller: No robo-call bill in '09
- Western pols bet on a continuing ‘political realignment'
- Biden likes BBQ
- Poll: Udall leading Schaffer
- Poll: Obama losing ground in Colo.
August 24, 2008
August 22, 2008
August 21, 2008
- Local Republicans void protesters' ‘war profiteers' check
- Schaffer discusses the ‘Fair Tax'
- Senators: Obama organization will help with 2010 election bids
- Reid, Salazar: Road to the White House travels through the West
- McCain: No term-limit pledge
- The coming mail-strom
- Udall likes 'wide-ranging experience' in SCOTUS nominees
August 20, 2008
- Udall hopes for ‘fair' moderator at upcoming Club 20 debate
- All aboard for Bush bashing
- Salazar: Population, pragmatism have helped Dems shift region blue
- McCain to Allard: Don't believe the hype about my water remarks
- Attack ads target candidate's work in Iraqi Kurdistan for energy firm
- ‘In many ways, they resemble moderate Republicans'
- New energy regulations will drop amid campaign cycle
August 19, 2008
- Buescher, Bradford 'facilitated conversation' announced
- Lamborn, Salazar team has high hopes for finishing out 2008
- Gov. Schwarzenegger: TABOR is my kind of budget mandate
- Confronting the 527 factor
- Looking ahead: Club 20 debates
August 18, 2008
- AG releases amicus brief in high court's mill levy freeze case
- Romanoff nets early endorsement
- Thousands ask: Bill who?
- How the West was won, according to Ken Salazar
- Debates loom in HD55 contest
August 17, 2008
August 16, 2008
August 15, 2008
- Schaffer strongly criticizes McCain's water compact comments
- Ken Salazar backs Hagan in HD58
- McCain: Times change, water compact also might have to
- Fix downgrades Colorado race
- Energy industry: We should pay more to the state ... huh?
August 14, 2008
- Polls: Udall up, increasing his lead in recently even contest
- Poll: Likely voters think convention will be good for Colorado
- Curry to teach government course at Western State College
- Betting on offshore oil
- You can't buy an election ... well, not for cheap
- Curry comes out for Ritter's severance tax ballot measure
August 13, 2008
- Western Slope pols weigh in on Coffman's possible successor
- U.S. House candidate makes cameo in Senate committee's new ad
- Penry: Enviro agenda loses again
- Tallying the under votes
- Coffman's primary win allows Democrats to pickup state seat
- Toss the shin guards: Bruce loses primary and, probably, HD15 seat
August 12, 2008
- ‘More money than God'
- De-Bruce the Capitol?
- More on Wayne Wolf's critique of Salazar's adjournment vote
- Anachronistic sign language
August 11, 2008
- Cheney to stop by Musgrave event
- New poll: Udall leading Schaffer by six points in U.S. Senate race
- New Bradford adviser asks local GOP to unite behind candidate
- Peace group criticizes Udall, Salazar, Musgrave on votes
- A look at what happens if both severance tax measures pass
- ‘It's a sin against God to let a fool keep his money'
August 9, 2008
August 8, 2008
- Schaffer declines to support "personhood" measure
- Salazar describes special session calls as ‘just a political ploy'
- Salazar: ‘The American budget cannot stand this kind of drain'
August 7, 2008
- Local Democrats' 'Express Tax'
- Transportation initiative team fires back at DNR fiscal analysis
- Rep. Mike May hopes for eight GOP pickups this year, sure of one
- Former U.S. Rep. McInnis discusses Udall's ‘nightmare'
- Hasan antes up in HD56 race
August 6, 2008
- Your chance to dunk a politico
- Signs for ‘Ralph Carr' highway to debut during Sunday ceremony
- A Smarter Colorado attracts diverse roster of campaign donors
- Schaffer: No ‘elegant' way to confront illegal immigration
- Tipton continues to lead Democratic opponent in HD58 race
- King campaign continues to outspend its contributions
August 5, 2008
- Gibbs: Committee will proactively confront wildfire threats
- Buescher maintains fundraising lead over his GOP opponent
- Grand Junction's last speaker
- ‘A cleaner message'