Colorado Times Recorder is a Colorado political news and opinion publication and one of the largest recurring retained source corpora in this repository. Its own About page says it launched in 2016, covers Colorado politics and Colorado's congressional delegation, and operates with a nonpartisan progressive orientation.
In this repository, Colorado Times Recorder matters as a publication entity because its archived article corpus supports many existing Colorado education-politics, Christian-right, campaign-finance, election-denial, and public-record synthesis pages. Atlas Trace retains a bulk WordPress API article corpus and its associated source records.
This page treats Colorado Times Recorder as a publication source, not as a neutral authority for every claim it publishes. When CTR reporting is used downstream, repo pages should preserve source attribution, distinguish reporting from primary records, and avoid converting repeated CTR coverage into proof of claims that require independent records.
- Role or function: Colorado political news and opinion publication.
- Scope in repo: major source corpus for Colorado politics, public education, Christian-right organizing, election-denial activity, anti-LGBTQ and anti-trans policy fights, and school-board conflicts.
- Launch year:
2016, based on the retained About-page capture.
- Political orientation: the retained About page describes the outlet as nonpartisan with a progressive orientation and says it is not affiliated with a political party.
- Publishing / reuse policy: the retained About page says articles are free for republication if credited and linked back to the site.
- Founder / editor: the retained About page identifies Jason Salzman as editor and founder.
- Corpus scale: a locally retained April 2026 Atlas Trace corpus inventory records
5,882 Colorado Times Recorder captures; a structured local inventory supports the later WordPress API ingest.
- Current WordPress refresh state: the
2026-08-04 refresh manifest records 6,103 exposed WordPress posts, 111 newly captured raw articles, and 189 canonical URL matches already represented within the bounded six-page delta window; the canonical manifest was then rebuilt across 123 API pages with all 6,103 URLs represented once.
- Logan M. Davis: recurring Colorado Times Recorder columnist and reporter whose retained work supports several education, Christian-nationalism, dark-money, and political-network pages.
- Sean Beedle: recurring Colorado Times Recorder reporter and source author; this repo consolidates Sean Beedle and Heidi Beedle references on one entity page.
- Suzie Glassman: recurring Colorado Times Recorder source author in the repo's Douglas County education-politics and conservative-organizing corpus.
¶ Evidence and source basis
- a locally retained article from Colorado Times Recorder, captured 2026-04-19T02:15:00Z, titled About the Colorado Times Recorder: compact capture of the publication's About page, including launch year, orientation, correction and republication policies, and team-page facts.
- a locally retained Atlas Trace source inventory: structured manifest for the WordPress API ingest, including post IDs, titles, canonical URLs, publication dates, author names, and retained source-capture paths.
- a locally retained Atlas Trace source inventory: documents the April
2026 corpus triage and notes the scale of retained CTR captures.
- a locally retained article from Colorado Times Recorder, published 2024-12-30, titled 2024 Review: Politics, Policy & Posts: A Round-up of Our Reporting on Colorado’s 2024 Statehouse Races: identifies part of the retained Colorado Times Recorder reporting team, including Heidi Beedle, Logan M. Davis, and Suzie Glassman.
- a locally retained article from Colorado Times Recorder, published 2025-02-05, titled Colorado Times Recorder Launches ‘Fever Swamp Review’ Podcast: supports the publication's Fever Swamp Review podcast relationship and names Heidi Beedle as host.
- Colorado Times Recorder corpus and publication source cluster, 2026: normalized source-summary layer for the publication About-page capture, corpus manifests, source-author context, and downstream evidence-use limits.
- Colorado Times Recorder WordPress refresh, 2026-05-14: processing summary for the May
2026 WordPress refresh and entity / relationship maintenance decisions.
- a locally retained Atlas Trace source inventory: June
2, 2026 incremental refresh manifest for latest CTR WordPress API posts and retained raw capture paths.
- a locally retained Atlas Trace source inventory: August
4, 2026 incremental refresh manifest covering the bounded API window, including 111 new captures published from June 2 through August 4.
- The repo now has a publication entity anchor and durable source-cluster summaries, but it still does not have a topic-by-topic summary for every retained CTR article.
- The retained About page gives publication self-description. Claims that depend on external assessment of the outlet's credibility, ownership, funding, or editorial history need separate source capture before being added here.
- Many wiki pages cite Colorado Times Recorder captures through
source_refs; this pass did not attempt a broad backlink insertion across the whole wiki.
¶ Source access and local retention
Atlas Trace retains a local research capture for provenance of the sources identified on this page. The capture and processing records remain local; they are not available through this wiki. Consult the identified sources for public access options where available. See Sources, access, and local retention.