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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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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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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…
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The 8 who would be governor: Candidates square off at CoPo/Gazette forum
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For the first time, all four Republicans and four Democrats running for governor of Colorado squared off during a pair of debates Saturday in Colorado Springs, discussing policies ranging from transportation funding to gun violence, taxes to President Donald Trump. The candidate forum was presented by Colorado Politics, The Gazette and El Pomar’s Forum for…
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NREL gets federal grant to bolster less-familiar form of solar power
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The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden has received $8 million in federal grants for research to bolster “concentrating solar power,” a renewable energy technology that has been flagging as wind and photovoltaic solar power grow. The NREL grants are part of $72 million awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office.…
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Denver chamber-led coalition will seek sales tax for roads
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A Denver-led coalition hopes to ask voters in November for a 0.62 percent statewide sales tax to pay for transportation. Members of the coalition made the decision in a closed-door meeting at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce Friday morning. Now the groups supporting the tax must collect 98,492 signatures from registered voters statewide by Aug.…
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Colorado lawmakers push for reforms as prison costs rise
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DENVER – A decade ago, faced with runaway costs and a growing prison population, Colorado lawmakers pushed the state Department of Corrections to transition more offenders out of prison and into halfway homes. Instead, the opposite happened. The state now uses community-based corrections programs even less than it did. And while its inmate population declined,…
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State remains committed to I-25 toll lanes despite El Paso County opposition
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COLORADO SPRINGS – Despite near unanimous opposition at meetings in El Paso County, the Colorado Department of Transportation is determined to go ahead with toll lanes if Interstate 25 is widened between Monument and Castle Rock. About a dozen people reiterated Wednesday at another hearing on the proposed $350 million project that adding a toll…
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2018 Colo. legislature, by the numbers
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The 2018 General Assembly session that wrapped up on May 9 is notable for a lot of reasons, starting off with the first expulsion of a sitting lawmaker in more than 100 years. And there are lots of other notable numbers to come out of the session: Number of bills: 721. Is it a record?…
