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Mark K. Matthews
Mark K. Matthews is a former Washington correspondent for The Denver Post.
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Walker Stapleton discovered fraud helped him qualify for governor’s race. So now he’s taking a new path to make 2018 ballot.
Walker Stapleton, the leading Republican candidate for governor in Colorado, acknowledged Tuesday that his campaign submitted fraudulent petitions to qualify for the 2018 ballot.

John Hickenlooper talks to Rolling Stone about marijuana, the 2020 presidential race and the future of The Denver Post
Gov. John Hickenlooper spoke last week to Rolling Stone as part of a four-day, cross-country tour and the two-term Democrat used the conversation to defend Colorado’s decision to legalize marijuana...

“It’s like a tax on every can of beer.” How would a trade war with China impact Coloradans?
The growing risk of a U.S.-China trade war has rattled Colorado’s business community, which fears that new tariffs threatened by both sides would impact a broad range of products and...

Hickenlooper discusses marijuana, White House, partisan politics at Georgetown
Speaking Thursday to a small group of students at Georgetown University, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said Democrats and Republicans should look to the soda industry as a way to improve...

Cory Gardner urges Trump to use a new NAFTA deal to make it harder to add federal regulations
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado is pressing President Donald Trump to use NAFTA negotiations to transform federal rulemaking in a way that could thwart future environmental protections and other...

Five things Colorado should know about Congress’ $1.3 trillion spending package
Congress this week passed a massive $1.3 trillion plan to fund the federal government through Sept. 30 and tucked into that 2,232-page measure -- which President Donald Trump must sign...

Colorado’s NREL – once threatened by draconian cuts from Trump – is spared in proposed federal budget
Once faced with devastating cuts, a research facility in Colorado now looks as if it will emerge unscathed in the federal governmentap next budget. Included in Congress’ $1.3 trillion spending...

Colorado lawmakers fall short in effort to shield recreational marijuana from federal enforcement
A $1.3 trillion plan to fund the federal government through the end of September won’t include protections for the recreational marijuana industry -- a blow to Colorado lawmakers who tried...

Facebook data from Cambridge Analytica helped Republicans win key seats in Colorado. And it cost them big bucks.
Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to create psychographic profiles that allowed Republican operatives to target specific Colorado voters in battleground state Senate districts in 2014.

Colorado governor’s race tightens as Democrat Noel Ginsburg bows out
Democrat Noel Ginsburg said Tuesday that he’s ending his bid for governor because he doesn’t have the campaign cash to keep up with the other candidates.