Mike Coffman, Colorado's secretary of state, has this article in today's Coloradoan on his office's new policy whereby all candidates will be required to file their campaign finance reports online. Online disclosure increases the transparency of campaigns by making information about how campaigns are funded available to the public in a faster, more searchable format.

Our resident money in politics research expert, Nancy Watzman, wrote earlier this month about a recent finding that big contributions still largely fuel campaigns, despite chatter about the "rise of the small donor." Here she shows the phenomenon at a more local level: Colorado's gubernatorial contest.