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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
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, is working furiously to negotiate a compromise. Last week, he proposed a "local control" bill that would give cities and counties greater authority over setbacks, inspections and noise reduction rules. (associated press)

Anti-fracking vote mixed blessing for Colo. governor

Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper is a strong supporter of hydraulic fracturing, but last week's defeat of a high-profile local anti-fracking initiative wasn’t good news for him or state Democrats.

June 30, 2014
Sen. Mark Udall, Colorado Democrat, is still embracing President Obama and refusing to support to the Keystone XL pipeline, even though he is running neck and neck with his GOP challenger. (Associated Press)

Sen. Mark Udall embraces Obama, not pipeline

Other vulnerable Senate Democrats in tight re-election battles are embracing the Keystone XL pipeline and stiff-arming President Obama — but not Colorado's Mark Udall.

June 16, 2014
**FILE** Attorneys Theodore Boutrous (second from left) and Marcellus McRae (third from left), representing nine California public school students who are suing the state to abolish its laws on teacher tenure, seniority, and other protections, walk to a news conference outside the Los Angeles Superior Court on Jan. 27, 2014. Their case Vergara v. California is the latest battle in a growing nationwide challenge to union-backed protections for teachers. (Associated Press)

Calif. judge rules teacher tenure policies unconstitutional

In a stunning defeat for teachers' unions, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found Tuesday that job-security policies such as teacher tenure are unconstitutional because they cause disproportionate harm to poor and minority students.

June 10, 2014
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pounds her fist as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Clinton defends Obama’s prisoner exchange

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the Obama administration's hotly debated prisoner swap Sunday, saying the circumstances behind the American soldier's capture don't matter.

June 8, 2014