THE MIX
Statetap: Military academy scandals piling up
A leaked report of recruitment practices at West Point Academy in New York includes accounts of party bus rides for underage recruits featuring booze and babes. > read more
Wiretap: Wanna win an election? Make like a bumpkin.
"Someone once said, if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. Well, I wouldn’t wish Washington on a dog,” drawls the Harvard Law grad running for his sixth term in Congress. > read more
Millennials on millennials and Colorado’s midterm election
IN Clements Park in Littleton earlier this month, low turnout at a student-organized rally signaled that the fervor incited by the conservative Jefferson County school […] > read more
Statetap: Minneapolis wrangles Xcel on renewables, in nod to Boulder
Minneapolis's new contract with Xcel Energy includes an agreement that the utility work with the city to meet carbon reduction goals. Thank you Colorado college town by the Flatirons. > read more
Wiretap: A New York Times multi-point Obamacare inspection
Is Obamacare working? That’s a complicated question, nearly as complex as the law itself. The New York Times did a full-scale investigation and found, […] > read more
In run-up to Election Day, Gardner camp drums up national security fears
WITH a week until this off-year election, Republicans had two options to prod their party members to vote. One was to pull months of punches […] > read more
Wiretap: The astonishing horror of ISIS captivity
In a terrifyingly sad and astonishing story in the New York Times, Rukmini Callimachi tells of the lives lived by the hostages in the days they were held by ISIS. > read more
Wiretap: Bowling with Ebola
Dr. Craig Spencer rode the New York subways and bowled ten frames with his friends before being diagnosed with Ebola. Doctors really do make the worst patients. > read more
IN-DEPTH
Get Them All Out: Colorado Dems bet big on ground game
TEN miles west of Denver, Shawna Fritzler’s upper-middle-class development blooms on a rural two-lane road peppered by occasional crumbling farmhouses. This conservative hamlet in […]... > read more
CHASING LIGHT
Chasing Light: Hometown views
You may have heard that Keystone delayed its opening day because of unusually warm weather, but that’s not the whole story. Sure, temps have been […] > read more
EVENTS
WATCH: Actual women in politics debate the “war on women”
The Colorado Independent’s editor, Susan Greene, sits down with two of Colorado’s leading female politicians — Rep. Amy Stephens (R – Castle Rock) and House Majority […]
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Desert drought dust ups avalanche danger in Colorado backcountry
We all know what a blanket of fresh snow is supposed to look like, but for the last 10 years, the snows falling in parts of the Colorado Rockies have been far from virgin white and fluffy.
Read MoreTHE BLOGS
Mike Keefe on Karl Rove as horror movie director
Does fear mongering like this really work?
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