Author: Luige Del Puerto

The bulk of the Colorado programs whose funding — according to local officials — remained inaccessible as of a few days ago deal with energy, “climate resilience” and electric vehicle infrastructure.     At $156 million, the single biggest spending item has been earmarked for expanding solar energy. The funding amount cited by Gov. Jared Polis and other officials…

A group is targeting for repeal Colorado’s “sanctuary statutes,” which prohibit, in specific instances, cooperation with federal authorities in enforcing immigration laws. Advance Colorado, an organization with experience in pushing for ballot measures, said it filed the proposal in response to Colorado’s “dangerous status as a sanctuary state.” The proposal would mandate state and local…

Gov. Jared Polis on Friday urged the Trump administration to increase the number of immigration and FBI agents working out of Colorado, even as he insisted that his state is not a “sanctuary” jurisdiction. Over the last two years, roughly 43,000 immigrants — mainly from South and Central America who crossed the southern border illegally…

Moments after being sworn in Monday, President Donald Trump said he would declare an emergency at the southern border, the start of what he promised to be a crack down on the illegal immigration a crisis that has spilled over into Denver and America’s other interior cities. The cartels will be regarded as “terrorist organizations,”…

Gov. Jared Polis will attend Donald Trump’s inauguration as president. Polis’ office said he would do in his capacity as chair of the National Governors Association. “As chair of the National Governors Association, I’m leading a national bipartisan group of America’s governors to attend the Presidential inauguration,” Polis said in a news release. “The relationship…

Wildlife officers have begun the operation to capture gray wolves in British Columbia, Canada, and bring the apex predators to Colorado, where they will be released in a region at the center of a fight over the state’s reintroduction campaign.  Colorado’s wildlife commission this week denied a petition to delay the next round of wolf…

Gov. Jared Polis said he welcomes federal agents in Colorado, which has attracted tens of thousands of immigrants who illegally crossed the southern border, to detain and deport “dangerous criminals.” Still, he insisted that the state would not support plans to send people who hadn’t broken any other laws back to their home countries. Polis,…

Colorado Republicans are once more seeking to repeal a set of laws that prohibits, in specific instances, cooperation with federal authorities in enforcing immigration laws. The lawmakers, who are in the minority party in the Colorado legislature, have perennially tried but failed to convince the majority party to undo the laws. They are seeking the…