But it passed a major hurdle Wednesday when the House Local Government Committee approved the measure by a 9-2 vote, including the backing of three of the five GOP members on the committee. Former Gov. Bill Ritter created the RTA in 2009 when he signed...

The first event is from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday and will feature an interdisciplinary panel discussing water and energy in the Lory Student Center Senate Chambers. Members of the panel include former Gov. Bill Ritter, now director of the Center for the...

One of the main reasons Democrats have been winning repeatedly in Colorado over the last decade, even surviving the Republican wave in 2010, is because we are able to nominate affable centrists to run statewide—Gov. John Hickenlooper, former Gov. Bill...

In Colorado, it makes sense for the president to expound on his support of clean energy, said Denver-based political analyst Floyd Ciruli. The state's previous governor, Bill Ritter, and its current one, John Hickenlooper, are champions of clean...

Or, three, a combination of both. "The public has to be persuaded that this is a huge problem but it can be solved," said Jim Lyons, the Denver attorney who co-chaired former Gov. Bill Ritter's effort at fixing higher-education funding. "And if it is...

"We haven't been sitting by," Walsh said in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press. "We've been taking marijuana enforcement action." Colorado's industry began its boom during a time when there was no permanent U.S. attorney in office. Then-Gov.