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Retired coal miner Stanley Sturgill of Harlan County, Kentucky, testifies that coal fired power plants are a danger to public health, on the first of two days of public hearings held by the Environmental Protection Agency on President Barack Obama's plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2030, in Denver, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. In hearings, hundreds of people across the country are telling the EPA its new rules for power-plant pollution either go too far or not far enough. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

EPA hears testimony on proposed carbon emissions rules

The atmosphere outside was festive, with music, free T-shirts and ice cream giveaways, but the mood inside the Environmental Protection Agency's first hearings on its proposed power plant regulations was anything but.

July 29, 2014
Colorado Democrats fear the anti-fracking crusade of Rep. Jared Polis may jeopardize their tentative hold on Denver. Mr. Polis is sponsoring two ballot measures against hydraulic fracturing. (Associated press)

Rep. Jared Polis’ anti-fracking crusade riles Colorado

Rep. Jared Polis and his personal fortune were instrumental in helping Democrats wrest control of Colorado from Republicans, but now Democrats fear that he may jeopardize everything they've worked for with his anti-fracking crusade.

July 21, 2014
**FILE** Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner delivers a speech to Republican delegates at state GOP Congress in Boulder on April 12, 2014. Gardner is stepping down from his current House seat to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall in November. (Associated Press)

Gardner edges Udall in Colo. Senate race poll

The Colorado Senate race is still locked in a statistical tie, but now Republican Rep. Cory Gardner is the candidate leading by a nose, according to a poll released Thursday.

July 17, 2014
The Western Conservative Summit has grown tenfold in the past five years, forcing it to move from the Colorado suburbs to the capital. The theme for this year's conference, which starts Friday with an expected 3,000 attendees, is "Right turn, right now." (GettyImages)

Colorado summit a conservative magnet

Five years ago, John Andrews was casting about for a signature event to put the newly founded Centennial Institute on the map, when he realized that there is probably no place politicos would rather visit in the summer than Colorado.

July 16, 2014
"The California slide is accelerating, and it will only get worse," says venture capitalist Tim Draper.

‘Six Californias’ backers say they will force a referendum

Organizers plan to submit petitions Tuesday in Sacramento for a ballot initiative that would split California into six states. The proposed constitutional amendment needs 807,615 valid signatures to qualify for the Nov. 4 ballot, but Six Californias spokesman Roger Salazar said the campaign has gathered significantly more than that.

July 14, 2014
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg waits to go on a stage at a news conference of the Genesis Prize Foundation in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Genesis Prize Foundation announced the selection of Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the first Genesis Prize Laureate. In making its selection, the Prize Committee focused on a number of the mayor's qualities as they relate to the Prize criteria. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Bloomberg: Pro-gun towns must lack roads

Colorado Springs and Pueblo may not be Paris or London, but they are not quite the rural backwaters that anti-gun activist Michael Bloomberg apparently thinks they are. The former New York City mayor said he was “sorry” about the recalls of two Democratic state senators last year over the state legislature’s passage of gun-control laws, but said the districts in the recall races were so “rural” that “I don’t think there’s roads.”

July 10, 2014