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INSIGHTS | Colorado takes the R-word out of the books and makes it history
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Editor’s note: Joey Bunch is away, so this week we revisit his Insights column of March 30, 2018. We don’t use that word in Colorado anymore. Not in our laws and not in the government offices that serve all the people. No one deserves to be put down by public servants. No one. It was two…
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | Colorado takes on human trafficking
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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 May 1. Imagine a young child – a baby, really, barely graduated from a bassinet to a crib. Imagine that same baby being sold into sexual slavery just shy of her first…
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2018 Colo. legislature: Progress for business in a house divided
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They say a house divided cannot stand, yet a divided legislature seemed to serve Colorado’s business community just fine by the time the gavel came down on the 2018 session. As in previous years, the oft-bemoaned gridlock that frequently derails major initiatives in the General Assembly – split between a Republican-ruled Senate and a Democratic-controlled…
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Polis, Stapleton hold fundraising lead for Colorado governor
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U.S. Rep. Jared Polis has continued to pump millions of dollars of his own money into his run for the Democratic nod for Colorado’s next governor, and Republican state Treasurer Walker Stapleton leads Republicans, according to the latest round of campaign finance reports. As of May 17, the Boulder Democrat and internet entrepreneur has now…
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Opioids, vet benefits, civil rights top Hickenlooper’s bill signings this week
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has begun the last round of statewide bill signings for his time in office, with ceremonies starting on the Front Range and ending the week on the Western Slope. Hickenlooper has until June 8 to sign, veto or allow bills to become law without his signature. The General Assembly sent 432…
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Colorado Springs council tackles problems with executive sessions — in another executive session
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COLORADO SPRINGS – The Colorado Springs City Council might change how it holds executive sessions, though details weren’t available because the group discussed the issue Monday in an executive session. The council has spent about $5.4 million to settle at least seven lawsuits since 2013, all decisions made in closed sessions in apparent violation of…
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COVER STORY: Mining cleanups under Trump: A speedup or just ‘sound and fury’?
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MINTURN – In the 1980s, as Vail was gaining international notoriety as a global ski destination and Beaver Creek was struggling through its formative years, there was a dirty little secret in the river flowing between the two resorts – a fish-killing mix of arsenic, zinc, cadmium, lead and copper causing the Eagle River to…
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Democrats for Ed Reform’s Colo. leader didn’t lobby illegally, secretary of state says, but …
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The office of Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams has cleared the executive director of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) on a complaint accusing her of lobbying lawmakers at the state Capitol without being a registered lobbyist. But in a May 16 letter to DFER Executive Director’s Jen Walmer and former research director Jack Teter,…
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Colorado Supreme Court upholds Aspen bag fee
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DENVER – The Colorado Supreme Court has upheld a 20-cent surcharge on grocery bags in the city of Aspen. Monday’s ruling represents the second time in the last month that the court has rejected a constitutional challenge brought under the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights. TABOR requires voter approval for all taxes. The government can raise…
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Q&A w/Kelly Dore | ‘I have always fought for the underdog’
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Regular Colorado Politics readers will remember Kelly Dore from our April 27 cover story about the state’s crackdown on human trafficking. She has been a central figure in that saga; not only is the married mom of four from Parker a leading voice in the crusade against trafficking, but she also was one of its…
