Local elections this fall for school boards and municipal offices -- the ones that haven't been canceled for lack of interest -- occur in a murky fog of nonpartisan obscurity.  In my Denver Post column this week, I likened the voter's dilemma, absent Republican and Democratic tags to help...

It's amusing to be a Republican spectator at the feverish Democratic huddle that is Bill Ritter's email list. Day after day, some revved-up copywriter churns out breathless warnings about the sinister threat posed by my side to their side, the dynamic duo of our Governor and our President. 

Obama hero-worship may be waning in other quarters, but the Ritter campaign still seems to...

Now that the vandalism at Colorado Dem headquarters is known to come from one of her own, albeit not "a good Democrat" as she lamely puts it, party chairman Pat Waak owes an apology to Republicans, independents, and everyone else opposed to the government medical takeover -- whom she slurred yesterday in reflexively blaming the attack on "an effort on the other side...

Supply-side economics, which teaches that incentives matter in the creation of wealth, has few better interpreters than Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore.  Laffer and Moore have few higher exemplars of good results than Colorado.  We rank 10th for economic performance since 1997 and 2nd for favorable outlook going forward, in their 2009 Index of State Economic Competitiveness.

Or will they undo it? Heading into 2010 and with Coloradans steamed about the $100 gotcha penalty, Bill Ritter and his party had better heed the cautionary tales of Gov. Bill Clinton, dumped by Arkansans in 1980 for raising vehicle fees, and Lt. Gov. Don Beyer, denied promotion to the top job by Virginians in 1997 because of what he called the GOP candidate's "slogan from hell: 'No car...

A Republican in Grand Junction, call her Carol, wrote Sen. Michael Bennet urging him to oppose provision of tax-funded abortions in any health care reform bill.  He replied with a form letter by email, withholding a direct answer but signaling his likely support of the abortion funding. 
 
"Read between the lines" and it's clear, Carol commented to me.  I agree...

What power in a single well-reasoned column.  Ritter's right turn has started, and it would be false modesty for me to disclaim credit. 

On Sunday I wrote that if our Democratic governor wants to be reelected, he'd better start jettisoning his left-liberal baggage.  On Tuesday...

Testifying in the US Senate today, Gov. Bill Ritter ducked the question from Sen. Jim Inhofe as to whether he supports the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill recently passed by the House. 

Facing reelection in 2010 and with Inhofe stipulating the bill's devastating impact on our state's energy and farm sectors, Ritter must sense a climate change in Colorado politics.

Sanford, Spitzer, Schwarzenegger, Blago, Palin: when will a governor do something weird that benefits his state for a change? 

Such was my premise for a summer fantasy column in which Bill Ritter sneaks off to South America, not for a Maria tryst in Argentina but for a Markets 101 tutorial in Chile. 

The Colorado map is dotted with reminders of the Declaration of Independence, along with the names of Jefferson, his fellow founders, and their successors in the presidency. 

Yet dissatisfaction with all of that, rather than gratitude, is suggested by Obama's rhetoric about "transforming" or "remaking" America by "laying a new...