Author: Mark Harden

Colorado’s presidential candidates will share a stage Thursday with the top of the Democratic lineup for president, prompting political reporters across the nation to check in on John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet. The prime-time exposure, as Hickenlooper and Bennet appear alongside eight other hopefuls, will be crucial for the Coloradans, who have been hovering around…

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson has a message for John Hickenlooper: Stop doing what you’re doing. In a Washington Post column on Monday addressed to the two dozen Democratic candidates for president, Robinson says: “Some of you ought to be spending your time and energy in another vital pursuit — winning control of the Senate.”…

Among the large and growing field of Democrats who want to be president are the very liberal, liberal and not so liberal. Neither Coloradan in the 2020 race is ranked as a far-left firebrand, according to Democrats surveyed by Business Insider. The news outlet asked participants to rank 20 Democratic candidates’ political ideology. “Once the…

Mark Udall, a former U.S. senator and congressman, called Monday for the University of Colorado to reopen its search for its next president, days before an expected Thursday vote on sole finalist Mark Kennedy. Udall’s call comes amid mounting controversy over Kennedy, now the University of North Dakota’s president, with many CU faculty members and…

U.S. Attorney General William Barr, asked about a bill sponsored by U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner to give states a freer hand in setting marijuana policy, told a congressional hearing Wednesday that while he still favors a “federal rule against marijuana,” he supports the “approach” taken by the Gardner measure as an alternative to “where we…