Colorado

DENVER (AP) -- Democrat Michael Bennet is already gearing up for his 2010 re-election campaign for the U.S. Senate, even though he hasn't taken office yet....

The way Tom Tancredo sees it, he got to live out a scene from his favorite movie.

Ken Salazar will still be representing Colorado in the U.S. Senate when the chamber opens a new session this week.

Youth were supposed to turn out in masses for the election of 2008. That did not happen in Mesa County.

DENVER (AP) -- Ken Salazar will still be representing Colorado in the U.S. Senate when the chamber opens a new session this week....

"It's the economy, stupid," was first coined by Bill Clinton campaign strategist James Carville during Clinton's upset of George H.W. Bush in 1992.

DENVER (AP) - Gov. Bill Ritter on Saturday appointed Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet to fill a Senate vacancy that will be created by the promotion of Sen. Ken Salazar to interior secretary in the Obama administration.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- A battle is brewing over a possible ballot measure that would repeal the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights in Colorado Springs, home of the author of the law that limits government taxing and spending....

Gov. Bill Ritter is shattering conventional wisdom in tapping the popular but politically untested Michael Bennet, superintendent of Denver Public Schools, as the U.S. Senate replacement for Interior Secretary nominee Ken Salazar.

For the Western Slope, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Michael Bennet, the governor’s choice to replace outgoing U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., is an unknown.