Author: David O. Williams, special to Colorado Politics
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Colorado businesses ask Polis to back Big Tech
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Small businesses in Colorado, fearful of a growing tsunami of federal probes into Big Tech, are asking Gov. Jared Polis to help them rein in any potential disruptions to digital technology platforms during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to Polis spearheaded by the nonprofit Connected Commerce Council and signed by 154 Colorado businesses, the group, also…
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Colorado Dreamers doubtful of DACA protection in border-wall fight
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EAGLE COUNTY — Colorado’s Dreamers — immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children — are following closely as a 17-member congressional conference committee tries to come up with a border-wall funding deal that could include protections for them and possibly avoid another partial government shutdown on Feb. 15. A three-year extension…
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In wake of federal First Step Act, Colorado eyes its own criminal justice reform
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Incoming state Sen. Pete Lee, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been working on a variety of criminal justice reform measures.Joey Bunch / Colorado Politics With December’s bipartisan passage in Congress of major criminal-justice reform legislation, there’s renewed hope among reform advocates in Colorado that more can be done in the 2019 state legislative…
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | Illegal pot spreads on Colorado’s public lands
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Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published April 13. Deep in Colorado’s national forests, shadowy teams of people are clear-cutting underbrush, trenching hillsides for cultivation, diverting and damming streams to create reservoirs, and using chemicals that are killing fish…
