WATCH: COLORADO POLITICKING | Unpacking budget requests from Colorado’s courts and prisons
This week on Colorado Politicking, judicial reporter Michael Karlik and chief legislative reporter Marianne Goodland join host Pat Poblete to unpack budget requests from judicial agencies and the state Department of Corrections.
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Colorado Supreme Court upholds police search of car based on arm movements
Michael Karlik
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Updated 2 hours ago
The Colorado Supreme Court decided last week that Denver officers’ search of a vehicle was constitutional, based on their perception of arm movements that a trial judge found to not be credible. Officers Keegan Grubb and Richard Eberharter were patrolling...
Flat or graduated income tax? Colorado groups push dueling measures for November election
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 46 minutes ago
Colorado voters could face two opposing income-tax measures on the November ballot, with the dueling campaigns seeking to advance proposals that would take the state in sharply different fiscal directions. One initiative seeks to replace Colorado’s flat income tax with...
10th Circuit tosses Pueblo County sheriff defendants’ appeal in fatal shooting lawsuit
Michael Karlik
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Updated 4 hours ago
The Denver-based federal appeals court rejected an attempt from Pueblo County sheriff’s employees on Wednesday to rely on their own version of the facts to escape liability for fatally shooting an unarmed man outside a middle school. A trial judge...
Backers of Colorado road-funding initiative reject withdrawal deadline, negotiations with lawmakers continue
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 hours ago
The standoff over Colorado’s road‑funding initiative will continue after supporters declined state lawmakers’ request to withdraw the measure, while both sides signaled they are still willing to pursue a broader agreement ahead of the fall deadline. Initiative No. 175, backed...
US primed for summer of unpredictable gas prices as Iran war rages on: ‘Living this uncertainty’
Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner
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Updated 3 hours ago
The war with Iran has made summer gas prices unpredictable, as President Donald Trump’s shifting messaging on hostilities keeps the energy markets in limbo. There’s little concrete direction on where gas prices could go in the coming months, an expert...
USPS proposes changes to mail-in ballots in states that don’t hand over voter rolls
Molly Parks, Washington Examiner
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Updated 2 hours ago
The Postal Service proposed a new rule pushing states to turn over their mail-in and absentee voter rolls to the agency, a move in line with President Donald Trump’s March executive order tightening regulations on mail-in voting in federal elections....
Colorado justices uphold strict interpretation of consumer protection law against debt collector
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 7 hours ago
The Colorado Supreme Court concluded last month that a debt collector failed to comply with state law by suing a woman for an unpaid credit card debt without documentation that it owned her account. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC filed a...
The Latest: US military launches strikes against Iran in response to downing of American helicopter
The Associated Press
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Updated 1 day ago
The U.S. military announced that it has begun strikes against Iran following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman. In a statement posted to social media, U.S. Central Command said the strikes would be...
Colorado governor signs bill requiring pollution controls, cost reporting for extended coal operations
Scott Weiser
scott.weiser@gazette.com
Updated 1 day ago
Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a bill in reaction to orders from the U.S. Department of Energy to keep older coal units online. The federal government’s instructions applied to Craig Unit 1 in Colorado, one of five coal units...
Mental Health Colorado names 2026 legislators of the year
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 1 day ago
Six state lawmakers have received recognition from the advocacy organization Mental Health Colorado for their work during the 2026 legislative session. “Mental Health Colorado’s work to pass laws, change practices, and build a movement depends on courageous advocates and bipartisan...
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Let’s go back to 2017: that’s when the General Assembly passed House Bill 1340, which set up an interim committee charged with coming up with a new school finance funding formula. That committee has now met five years in a row, but over time the enabling legislation has changed, most recently in 2021. While the […]
Polis assures infrastructure sector of funding as he pledges to reduce transportation-related fees
The Polis administration on Thursday assured the transportation sector that plans to save Coloradans money by reducing or delaying several fees – the same revenue streams the governor and his Democratic allies approved last year to fund the state’s 10-year transportation program – will not slow down Colorado’s infrastructure projects. State officials, in fact, said Colorado’s transportation […]