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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, said Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is receiving one-sided advice from staff at the Fish and Wildlife Service over the issue of whether to place the Gunnison sage grouse on the endangered-species list. (associated press photographs)

Colorado governor: Bureaucrats biased on endangered grouse issue

An example of the tension between Western Democrats and the Obama administration surfaced Monday when Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper told a rural audience that Washington bureaucrats are pushing a "slanted version" of the sage-grouse issue to political decision-makers.

November 25, 2013
**FILE** Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg speaks at the Real Estate Board of New York on Thursday, May 30, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Colorado voters slap down Bloomberg-backed income-tax hike

Voters kicked him to the curb again at the ballot box, rejecting a proposed statewide income-tax hike heavily financed by Mr. Bloomberg just two months after ushering out two Democratic state senators who backed his gun-control agenda.

November 6, 2013
FILE -- This May 12, 2006 file photo shows Homaidan al-Turki, right, and his wife Sarah Khonaizan as they arrive for a hearing at the Arapahoe County courthouse in Centennial, Colo. Homaidan al-Turki, a Saudi national serving eight years in prison in Colorado on a sexual assault conviction, appeared at a hearing today Oct.24, 2013, to ask a judge to release him from prison and allow him to serve probation instead. He seeks to be deported to his home country to serve the rest of his sentence.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Saudis lobby for release of Colo. sex offender

On the surface, Homaidan al-Turki may not seem like the world's most sympathetic prison inmate, given his 2006 conviction for keeping his Indonesian housekeeper as a sex slave for four years.

November 3, 2013
A protester carries a sign and wears a pin during a pro-coal rally in front of the state Capitol, in Denver, Wednesday Oct. 30, 2013. Various industry groups came together for the protest Wednesday, while nearby the Environmental Protection Agency held hearings on future rules to stem emissions from existing power plants, in one of 11 meetings being held across the country. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Coal advocates press case to EPA

Environmental Protection Agency officials received an earful at Wednesday's listening-tour stop in Denver as most speakers urged the agency to stop what they described as the Obama administration's war on the coal industry.

October 30, 2013
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed into law every measure sent to him by the Democrat-controlled legislature, including the Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act, passed with no Republican votes. The act allows same-day voter registration and makes mail-in voting the norm. Critics of the law fear it will turn the two recall elections Tuesday into a statewide free-for-all. (Associated Press)

Colorado voters will be asked to make secession official

Eleven rural counties upset over a growing divide with the Democrat-dominated state government are asking voters on the Nov. 5 ballot whether their elected officials should pursue the creation of another state carved from northern Colorado.

October 28, 2013