No context news: You better watch out for Harry J. Nicholas, "a notrious fraud, liar, swindler, drunkard and impostor," reported the Rocky Mountain News on Aug. 1, 1876.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump administration on Monday that sought to compel Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold to hand over sensitive voter information to the federal government. via @coloradonewsline.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/%E2%...
Trump administration’s attempt to obtain Colorado voter data shut down by federal judge
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump administration on Monday that sought to compel Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold to hand over sensitive voter information to the federal…
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Origin story: "The timing of Colorado’s admission into the union in 1876, weeks after the celebration of the nation’s centenary and just ahead of that year’s pivotal presidential election, was an overtly partisan maneuver by the GOP, which felt assured of the new state’s three electoral votes."
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · 4d agoFifty for 150: Colorado owes its identity as the Centennial State to the partisan political interests of the Reconstruction-era Republican Party. This is the last of 50 stories we've published as part of our Fifty for 150 Colorado history series. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
On Saturday, a major overhaul of how some gun sales work in Colorado will take effect. Customers will need to undergo a multi-step process to buy many popular semiautomatic firearms. Reporter @sarawilson.bsky.social explained how the new law works earlier this month.
Colorado prepares overhaul of semiautomatic gun sales | Colorado Newsline
Coloradans who want to buy some of the most popular types of semiautomatic guns will soon need to complete safety training.
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Today's Fifty for 150 story, by @sarawilson.bsky.social, is about the beginnings of the Colorado State Fair, which was incorporated in Pueblo in 1886. coloradonewsline.com/2026/07/28/f...
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · last wk.We're in the final days of our Fifty for 150 special reporting project, which highlights 50 events over 150 years of Colorado statehood that helped define the state. The last story will appear Saturday. See all Fifty for 150 stories here: coloradonewsline.com/tag/fifty-fo...
Boulder police praying with the "today is kill day" anti-abortion activist outside a clinic whose concerned staff called law enforcement in the first place certainly sends a message. From @beedle.bsky.social
Boulder Police Pray with Anti-Abortion Activists Amid Rising Tensions
Recent social media posts from anti-abortion group White Rose Resistance have raised concerns from pro-abortion nonprofit Cobalt. White Rose Resistance organizer Sean Bateman posted a selfie on Instag...
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The teacher who complained about the column, which addressed the "genocide" in Gaza, is faculty advisor for the school’s Young Conservatives club. In school emails he said the piece contained “outright racism,” “bigotry” and “Nazi propaganda."
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · 2w agoThe advisor to Grand Junction High School’s student newspaper was reassigned less than two weeks after a teacher complained about a student-penned column. "It is ironic that the administration would threaten the one thing that inspired me most as a high school student," said the column's author.
This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.
Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 2w agooh come on
Days before the June 30 primary, after GOP governor candidate Victor Marx made Colorado a laughingstock, Rep. Lauren Boebert started to qualify her endorsement of him. Then he won. Now she says she's "never been prouder of an endorsement in my life."
The Newsline staff has put tons of work into this project, and the way I know it's worth it is that I learn something new about Colorado history every day we publish a new Fifty for 150 story. Amazing effort by @chasewoodruff.bsky.social @sarawilson.bsky.social and @lindseytoomer.bsky.social
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · 2w agoWe are nearing the end of a massive reporting project, Fifty for 150, a series of 50 stories about events that helped define Colorado over 150 years of statehood. We're posting the stories in reverse chronological order and are back to 1902, when Barney Ford died. We'll finish in 1876.
Bodycam footage shows a Wheat Ridge police officer, now terminated, pressing his gun to an already-restrained person's head and threatening, "I'll put a f***ing bullet in your head." The footage was obtained by @bluesurveillance.bsky.social bluesurveillance.org/reporting/wh...
Communities around the country have demonstrated that public pressure, legal challenges and municipal obstruction can be highly effective means of blocking new ICE detention facilities.
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · 3w agoCommentary: If federal immigration authorities are allowed to open a second detention center in Colorado, it will represent a political and moral failure of state leaders and residents.
In my latest story for @coloradonewsline.com I wrote about the impact of the ongoing drought to #Colorado's public power sytem and, ultimately, consumer wallets. #electricity #hydropower #climate #climatechange #utilities coloradonewsline.com/2026/07/15/c...
As Colorado River and tributaries shrink, a public power system frays | Colorado Newsline
Colorado’s only stake in a federal hydropower system is on pace to generate nearly 30% less electricity than its historical average.
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Lots of hand-wringing among Colorado journalists for not foreseeing how close Gonzales came to beating Hickenlooper. I could have done more to highlight the race. But in early 2025 I was saying Hick was "supremely vulnerable to a primary challenge." Few took it seriously then, not even candidates.
Hickenlooper could be vulnerable to a strong primary challenge in 2026 | Colorado Newsline
Last week, as the U.S. Senate voted to approve President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Food and Drug Administration, Colorado’s junior senator “agonized” over what to do, he told a reporter. He vote...
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Stroud was denied funds to travel to the 1928 Olympic trials, almost certainly due to racism. So he walked, ran and hitchhiked from Colorado to Boston. He arrived with six hours to spare before his race started, but he collapsed from exhaustion on the sixth lap.
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · 4w agoFifty for 150: Members of the Stroud family of Colorado Springs racked up many achievements. But the one that has most captured the imagination of Colorado chroniclers concerns Kelley Dolphus Stroud’s 1928 journey to compete in the Olympic trials.
In 1992, Domenico on 1A grounds defended CU football coach Bill McCartney after McCartney caused an uproar with a speech in which he said homosexuality is “an abomination against almighty God.” Domenico was notably silent on what he thought of McCartney’s bigotry.
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · 4w agoCommentary: Judge Daniel Domenico, chief of the U.S. district court in Denver, chose humiliation over rejection by indulging the biggest lie in the country's modern political history. Now he's poised for a promotion.
Denver musicians! I'm writing for @denverpost.com about making ends meet as an artist, and wondering if anyone would let me shadow them at their dayjob(s) to show how hard folks have to work to get gigs and stage time and etc.? DM or email me (jwenzel@denverpost.com)
New training requirements will cover many popular types of firearms. https://www.westword.com/news/colorado-prepares-overhaul-semiautomatic-gun-sales-40908581/
Colorado prepares overhaul of semiautomatic gun sales
New training requirements will cover many popular types of firearms.
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Today someone can walk into a gun shop and buy the guns covered by the new Colorado law without any training. That changes at the end of this month.
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · last mo.In one of the largest shifts to gun purchasing laws in Colorado, residents who want to buy some of the most popular types of semiautomatic firearms will soon need to complete training through a new permit-to-purchase program. By @sarawilson.bsky.social
Dozens of Patriot Front members just boarded metro minutes ago at the Eastern Market station in Washington, D.C. I asked one National Guard member who they were and they responded "protesters." A July 4th community parade is about to begin just outside the Eastern Market station.
Kerouac, partying in Central City in the 1940s: "... we fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess …”
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · last mo.Fifty for 150: Published in 1957, Jack Kerouac's “On the Road” was a seminal work of freewheeling literary style that helped define the Beat Generation and launch the American counterculture of the following decade. Denver and Colorado play an outsize role in the novel.
This is good. I'd add we have a problem that goes way deeper than politics. It's about cultural debasement. As the piece says about the evaporation of shame, "shame is actually an essential behavior in policing what a society will and will not tolerate."
Zeb Larson@zeblarson.bsky.social · last mo.I got angrier and angrier as I wrote this for @damemagazine.bsky.social. The collapse of this country’s civic morality dovetails with the cruelty and corruption that dominates policy. The rest of our institutions are being dragged down by or are abetting it. That’s the thing on my mind this 4th.
Gov. Polis fired two members of his clemency board who spoke publicly about the Tina Peters case. The members, Azra Taslimi and Hannah Seigel Proff, spoke to Newsline. "The standard that was applied to Tina Peters doesn’t exist anywhere in writing," Taslimi said. By @lindseytoomer.bsky.social
Polis fires clemency board members said to have breached confidentiality in Tina Peters case | Colorado Newsline
Gov. Jared Polis fired two members of his clemency board who spoke publicly about the board’s recommendation against releasing Tina Peters.
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Weiser would be a lawyer governor in a lawless land.
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · last mo.Commentary: Phil Weiser on Tuesday won the Democratic primary election for Colorado governor. That means, barring some extraordinary event, he will be the next Colorado governor. What does that mean for the state?
Political newcomer Melat Kiros drew in first-time volunteers and tapped experienced organizing networks to unseat longtime Rep. Diana DeGette in Denver's congressional District. Newsline's @chasewoodruff.bsky.social has the definitive account of her primary campaign.
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · last mo.How democratic socialist Melat Kiros stunned Colorado politics with congressional primary win
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado reposts a message from a Republican House colleague that calls for "an immediate freeze to all immigration" in light of the Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship.
Strike leader Lupe Briseño, who was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2020, said, “It doesn’t matter what kind of work you’re doing, you work with pride and dignity and respect.”
Colorado Newsline@coloradonewsline.com · last mo.Fifty for 150: The Kitayama Carnation Strike in Brighton in 1968 is recognized today as a pivotal event in the national Chicano Movement, as well as an inspiration for labor and women’s rights advocates. It helped establish Colorado as a wellspring of Chicano activism.
Preliminary results Tuesday night showed U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette’s 30-year career in Congress on track to be brought to an end by a democratic socialist and first-time candidate born four months after DeGette first took office. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Melat Kiros ahead of Rep. Diana DeGette in early Colorado primary results | Colorado Newsline
Preliminary results Tuesday night showed U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette’s 30-year career in Congress on track to be brought to an end by a democratic socialist and first-time candidate born four months after...
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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that a series of ballot measures aiming to draw new congressional maps violate the state constitution, a major blow for Democrats aiming to respond to an unprecedented national gerrymandering spree initiated by Republicans last year. By @chasewoodruff.bsky.social
Colorado Supreme Court blocks 2028 redistricting measures in blow to Democrats | Colorado Newsline
The new map drawn by the measures' Democratic backers would have likely given the party a 7-1 advantage in Colorado's U.S. House seats.
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