One of the three candidates for Routt County sheriff is looking into a 1939 federal law that could prevent him from running for elected office, but he said he is continuing his campaign until the question is resolved.

Garrett Wiggins said he is looking through the Hatch Act to determine whether his position as All Crimes Enforcement Team drug task force commander would disallow his candidacy.

The appointment of new Grand Junction City Council member Sam Susuras may have involved illegal voting methods, according to open meetings law and a prosecutor handling a lawsuit recently levied against the Fort Morgan City Council for similar conduct.

Fourth Judicial District Attorney Dan May’s efforts to get rid of a medical marijuana dispensary in his neighborhood have caught the attention of a Colorado Springs city councilman who says he’s considering filing an ethics complaint against May.

The paper also won several honors Friday night at the annual Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters awards banquet.

District Attorney Dan May told The Gazette’s opinion department Wednesday that he contacted the landlord of a medical marijuana business because of a desire to get the

House leadership will now meet in private with lawmakers who face ethics complaints before the complaints get a full and public committee hearing.

Lawmakers today unanimously approved the rule change, characterized by bi-partisan proponents as a way to help the House speaker, majority leader and minority leader decide whether to launch full-scale investigations. One lawmaker argued the change could lead to mini-investigations away from public view.

It was an easy hook but it garbled Jessica Fender’s Denver Post story. Fender was reporting the fact that the Colorado Supreme Court found Amendment 54 unconstitutional, striking down in Dallman v Ritter the restrictions on campaign donations put in place by the amendment at the beginning of last year. But Fender too breezily tied the story to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last month in Citizens United,

In a four to one vote, the Colorado Supreme Court this morning declared that so-called clean elections Amendment 54 unconstitutionally tramped on the right to free speech. The Court barred authorities from enacting its provisions.

A voter-approved Constitutional amendment barring campaign contributions from unions and some state contractors was today ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court.

The decision wraps up a 16-month-long fight over the constitutionality of a law that opponents said curbed free speech rights and which threatened to chill donations to political candidates.

Colorado Springs businessman and mayoral candidate Tim Leigh, who was selected outright to serve on the new Citizens Commission on Ownership and Governance of Memorial Health System, has resigned from the panel amid revelations that his wife works at Memorial.

“I am angry at myself for disappointing the people I am here to serve, and even more than that, I realize my error could reflect badly on the House of Representatives," King told the 65 members of the House on Friday. “I am truly sorry."

DENVER (AP) - Colorado lawmakers are continuing to investigate an ethics complaint against a state lawmaker accused of claiming duplicate expenses from the state and his campaign.

Republican Rep. Steve King of Grand Junction says he borrowed from money he contributed to his own campaign to pay for commuting to the Capitol until he could be reimbursed by the state.

The House Ethics Committee is holding a hearing Friday to review evidence and will rule later on the complaint filed by Ethics Watch, a nonprofit group that researches public officials.