 | The Colorado Politics statehouse team took a look at five issues that are likely to dominate the discussions for however long the session lasts. Read more | |
 | Colorado this year will graduate its first class of kids who have never known a fully funded education system. It's been 12 years since the legislature engineered a way to get around voters' wishes to grow support for schools by inflation plus 1%. Lawmakers borrowed the money from schoolkids. The ledger bleeds red every year, until the gap has reached $1.15 billion. Read more | |
 | The legislative package passed by a mostly party-line vote of 227-200, with eight Republicans voting for it and one Democrat voting against it. Read more | |
 | Members of the joint Capital Development Committee heard often-emotional testimony Thursday from the descendants of those massacred at Sand Creek in 1864, and why they want to see a memorial to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe who died there on the west side of the state Capitol. Read more | |
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 | As bills begin to move from committees to debates in the House and Senate, some first-year lawmakers are learning about a time-honored trad… Read more | |
 | Lynn Bartels: "Former Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams is sick of losing, but he predicts his party’s misfortunes will continue if the GOP keeps nominating unelectable candidates." Read more | |
 | Millions of fans know Denver author and entrepreneur Ben Higgins as the titular bachelor who told two women he loved them on the 20th season of ABC-TV's popular match-making reality show — but to Denver Republicans, he'll always be the one that got away. Read more | |
 | For 12 months, we've heaped responsibility atop America's health care providers. Read more | |
 | Older white residents in the Denver metro area and Colorado Springs were roughly twice as likely as their Hispanic peers to get vaccinated in the state's push to inoculate its oldest residents, and activists say state leaders needed to do more to address the inequities affecting minority communities. Read more | |
 | Mike Lindell, like Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell earlier, stands to lose $1.3 billion in the defamation lawsuit for his aggressive promotion of a theory that the election was stolen because Dominion voting equipment flipped votes to Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Read more | |
 | In an effort to find money to help energy industry workers transition to new careers, State Rep. Matt Soper, R-Delta, has resurrected an idea that has been attempted four times: privatize the quasi-public workers’ compensation insurance division, Pinnacol Assurance. Read more | |
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 | "It's a mixed bag, measuring anything against Alabama," Joey Bunch writes, tracing the history of space in Huntsville, Ala. Read more | |
 | "The pandemic shone a bright light on the problems and my greatest hope is that a sustainable commitment to erasing those inequities will bring about lasting change. We should demonstrate a steadfast commitment to advancing educational equity by closing the digital divide and dismantling systemic racism so a child’s zip code doesn’t determine his or her success." Read more | |
 | While the measure won support from the Colorado Municipal Clerks Association, the League of Women Voters and the Colorado Municipal League, among others, it received strong pushback from El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Chuck Broerman. Read more | |
 | A report on the independent investigation into the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain after an encounter with Aurora police officers elicited an echoing reaction: The findings were damning, and the report is only just the start of conversations that should be had about changes to policing in Aurora. Read more | |
 | Eric Sondermann: "COVID caught us all in various states of mental and logistical preparation, though mostly less so as opposed to more so." Read more | |
 | An occasional series of conversations with experts on the science and policies regarding fires. Read more | |
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