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Feb. 9, 2026: President’s dislike of Colorado; Dog Stars’ post-apocalyptic Colorado heads to big screen

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A voter drops off a ballot on Election Day in Denver’s Central Park neighborhood, Nov. 4, 2025

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President Trump has made it clear: He has beef with Colorado, from his ire over the presidential portrait that once hung in the State Capitol to mail-in balloting to immigration policy. We delve into that with Purplish. Then, long before the COVID pandemic, novelist Peter Heller imagined a world wiped out by a virus, and some lonely Colorado survivors, in his debut novel, "The Dog Star" in 2012. Now it's headed to the big screen.