Mike Coffman saw very green lawns at Aurora schools and escalated straight to water shutoff threats while APS says it cut use 20 percent.
Victor Marx survived a narrow GOP primary. Now Colorado Republicans face Phil Weiser, unity theater and a statewide test with real baggage.
Both party machines are learning the same ugly lesson: voters quit saluting the back-room priesthood that helped hollow out trust.
New polling shows Colorado voters souring on top Democrats, the economy, and the usual promise that rising costs are somehow nobody's fault.
Colorado lawmakers dragged the 2026-27 budget through four days of reading, wolf fights, cuts, and absentee nonsense before calling it governance.
Hartman, Colorado spiraled into legal limbo after resignations, fights, and years of water violations left residents without basic municipal function.
Colorado added people last year while more than half its counties shrank, as housing costs and uneven building turned growth into a county-by-county sorting process.
Weld County finally kept data centers out of ag land, then ducked the hard part by leaving water limits weak.
Colorado lawmakers are staring at another billion-dollar budget hole, and the gimmicks, raids, and reserve trimming are getting harder to hide.
Just Stop It
