TEXT AND CONTEXT | An annotation of Gov. Jared Polis’ 2020 State of the State address
The Colorado Politics team offers context and analysis to prepared remarks of the State of the State speech that Colorado Gov. Jared Polis gave to a joint session of the General Assembly on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. To see the annotations, go to this link and then click through the highlighted areas of text.
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