Awards season is upon us, and the conservative jesters at Colorado's right-leaning Independence Institute are bestowing the inaugural "Californian of the Year" award Wednesday on the lucky Coloradan who has "done the most to turn us into California," in the words of the think tank's president, Jon Caldara.
The Los Angeles City Council recently honored former Colorado Gov. Roy Romer for his contributions to education in the city, where he served as superintendent of the LA Unified School District for six years in the early 2000s.
U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter says he'll be greeting visitors to his congressional website with a message of support for young immigrants and federal heath care programs until Congress tackles the issues with permanent fixes.
Phil Weiser knows net neutrality. The Democratic candidate for attorney general and former University of Colorado Law School dean is an expert on the topic — the term was first introduced, after all, at the the Boulder policy center he founded, the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship, and the FCC chairman who implemented the policy spoke about it there.
The scientists at Golden's National Renewable Energy Laboratory have received a nearly $2 million federal grant to build a better system to forecast when the sun will be shining, Colorado's U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner announced Friday. The project is part of a Department of Energy program to improve integration of notoriously variable solar-generated electricity into the power grid.
A member of the House District 14 Republican vacancy committee on Friday challenged Thursday night's election of Shane Sandridge to the Colorado House of Representatives alleging another committee member was ineligible to participate and arguing Sandridge fell one vote short of the required majority.
U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman is returning to Afghanistan to celebrate Christmas with the troops, but details about the trip won't be released until the Aurora Republican is on his way home for security reasons, a spokesman said.
Quoting from "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," self-described progressive Gabriel McArthur announced Thursday he's dropping out of the Democratic primary for secretary of state but intends to keep pushing for change and promoting kindness in the world.
A Republican vacancy committee on Thursday elected Shane Sandbridge, a Colorado Springs investment consultant and former police officer, to become the next representative of House District 14. Sandridge will replace state Rep. Dan Nordberg, R-Colorado Springs, who is stepping down in January to take a job as regional administrator of the Small Business Administration.
More than four decades since entering the public arena, former state Rep. John Herzog, R-Colorado Springs, is retiring from the third — and what he says will be the last — state board he's served on.
Ernest Luning
Ernest Luning