Bill Ritter News

Like an employer waiting until Friday afternoon to issue pink slips, Gov. Bill Ritter waited until late Friday afternoon to release the latest round of bad news, a 2010-11 budget proposal that includes $1 billion in cuts and adjustments.

It may be a first for Colorado and it's certainly a first for the Western Slope.

The 2010 election is less than a year away, and judging from this past Tuesday's vote, things are going to get plenty messy.

"Put down your weapons. I come in peace." This morning, gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis' responded to critics of his decision not to debate his fellow Republican rivals with a Denver Post op-ed in which he argued that while "GOP candidate forums" are fine, direct faceoffs will do more harm than good.

In key contests Tuesday, Republicans won two gubernatorial races, and Democrats prevailed in special elections for two congressional seats.

Gov. Bill Ritter on Monday publicly defended Stephanie Villafuerte, the White House's nominee for U.S. attorney in Colorado, as questions linger about whether she played a role in the accessing of a restricted federal database while working on Ritter's 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

A Colorado legislative committee studying long-term fiscal reform has approved a bill giving colleges and universities more flexibility, and a study of the state's complicated state and local tax structure to be delivered in 2011.

Channel 7 investigative reporters Arthur Kane and John Ferrugia have exposed Democrat Governor Bill Ritter's so-called "hiring freeze" for what it really was: Gov.

Gov. Bill Ritter named Windsor as one of three locations in Colorado that will call home to a National Guard armory and readiness center on 25 acres of land.

Highest praise for Denver Post journalist Karen Crummy and Editor Vince Carroll for their exposure of Governor Ritter's campaign team for possibly breaking the "Social Contract" during the race for the governor's mansion several years ago.

DECEMBER 15, 2006__ Gov. Bill Ritter on Monday publicly defended Stephanie Villafuerte, the White House's nominee for U.S. attorney in Colorado, as questions linger about whether she played a role in the accessing of a restricted federal database while working on Ritter's 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

Dueling news releases from the Democratic speaker of the House and the Republican Senate minority leader over the state budget crisis likely signal a testy legislative session ahead.

Call it a political lovefest. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, former U.S. Senator for Colorado, state Attorney General before that and fifth generation Coloradan from the San Luis Valley, was honored Oct.

Did Stephanie Villafuerte tell the FBI the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Will U.S. senators on the Judiciary Committee believe she did? Would you? To be sure, President Barack Obama's nominee to become Colorado's next U.S. attorney has not actually made any public statement about her role in a 2006 flap over a campaign ad attacking her ...

Colorado's constitutional and statutory fiscal constraints contribute to the state's rising childhood poverty rate, a report released yesterday by children's advocates states.

Even a $10 check sends a clear message to Senate Democrats that pushing Obamacare will cost many of them their jobs.

Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams on Monday asked the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington to demand answers from Colorado U.S. attorney nominee Stephanie Villafuerte about whether she may have acted inappropriately during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

Photo: Colorado CIO Mike Locatis and Gov. Bill Ritter. Photo by Don Cudney. Today, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers awarded Colorado's Gov.

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Sunny Island isn't much of a vacation spot. You know the decision of a business to relocate is a big deal when the state's governor offers to serve as a de facto publicist, as Bill Ritter did yesterday during the announcement that the German firm SMA Solar Technology AG will be opening a plant in the Denver area that's expected to create 300 ...