A note from Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party:

“One of the great joys of being involved in Colorado campaigns has been the Rocky Mountain News and its political reporters.

“Charlie Roos, Peter Blake, John Sanko, Katie Kerwin, Bernie Morson, M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Ed Sealover, the incomparable Lynn Bartels, and so many others all covered politics with great professionalism, insight and humor and they appreciated the roles played by candidates and political hacks like me. They actually liked politics and the people involved.

“Losing this great journalistic voice would be terribly saddening. Colorado politics would never be the same and not for the better.”