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Colorado lawmakers and agencies need to plan now to lessen the damage of a steep drop in federal funding for social programs.

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抖阴ap: Funding gap — Colorado is uniquely vulnerable to federal spending cuts

February 14, 2025 at 9:25 a.m.

"There would be deep cuts in education, in health care, in transportation -- programs and resources that drastically impact the lives of millions of Coloradans." Seth Masket and Kaitlyn M....

Gubernatorial candidates Republican Walker Stapleton, left, ...

Masket: Stapleton and Polis aren鈥檛 like Hickenlooper; Sometimes, neither was Hickenlooper

October 28, 2018 at 9:21 a.m.

No, neither Jared Polis nor Walker Stapleton are quite like John Hickenlooper, but at important times, neither was Hickenlooper. The current governor is only as sunny and bipartisan as changing...

Jared Polis (right) stands with fellow ...

Masket: Colorado鈥檚 gubernatorial trifecta: Trump, the parties and cash

June 22, 2018 at 12:01 p.m.

Even as national politics continues to fascinate, mystify, and shock Coloradans, we can look with some pride on our state鈥檚 political system.

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein.

How will third-party candidates affect the 2016 election?

August 19, 2016 at 10:46 a.m.

Minor-party candidates rarely have much of an impact on U.S. presidential elections. There鈥檚 good reason to believe, however, that 2016 will be different.

H. Ross Perot attends a California State Senate committee meeting in 2002, a decade after he campaigned for president as an independent candidate. Perot received 18.9 percent of the popular vote in the 1992 presidential election.

Masket: Is this the year of the third-party candidate?

August 19, 2016 at 10:45 a.m.

This piece聽originally appeared on the Pacific Standard website. Third-party presidential candidacies have a terrible track record. They sometimes start off with some interest and support, but ultimately the public votes...

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