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Articles by Valerie Richardson

**FILE** Sen. Mark Udall, Colorado Democrat (Associated Press)

Panel that cleared Udall was all Democratic officials

A skirmish over Sen. Mark Udall’s efforts to pressure state insurance regulators into reworking their Obamacare cancellation figures has entangled another prominent Colorado Democrat: Gov. John Hickenlooper.

January 28, 2014
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell kept press out of a meeting in Colorado to ensure an "open and frank conversation," said her spokesman. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Reporters barred from Interior Department event

The Obama administration's testy relationship with the press is nothing new for Washington, but it's now extended to Colorado and has touched off a firestorm after Interior Department officials booted local reporters from a public meeting last week.

January 26, 2014
Magpul Industries is moving its manufacturing facility and corporate headquarters out of Colorado after the state legislature approved sweeping gun-control legislation in 2013. Here, Magpul employees in Erie, Colo., assemble firearms accessories and other products.(Photos by Stan Lukowicz)

Frustrated Colo. gun firm Magpul relocating to Texas, Wyoming

Magpul Industries, a firearms-accessories maker, announced Thursday that it will relocate its extensive manufacturing facilities to Texas and Wyoming, in angry response to the Colorado legislature's passage of sweeping gun-control legislation in 2013.

January 2, 2014
"My intention, when I am attorney general and sworn in, is to continue to defend the laws that have been passed by the people of Utah," Sean Reyes (left) said in an interview last week with KSTU-TV in Salt Lake City. Mr. Reyes has been named Utah's new attorney general by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (right), but he has not yet been sworn in. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Utah prepares to fight federal court rulings on gay marriage, polygamy

It's more than a little ironic that Utah, which was forced to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman as a condition for statehood, has been thrust into the role of traditional marriage's champion by two pivotal cases involving same-sex couples and polygamy.

December 29, 2013