- With a $3.3 billion dollar hole looming in the state budget, the lawmakers who oversee Colorado's finances warn that nothing is off the table. And that includes funding for one of Gov. Jared Polis' signature accomplishments.
- The state’s discretionary spending may have to shrink by 25 percent in the coming year — the equivalent of eliminating the operating budgets for transportation and corrections.
- On Tuesday, state lawmakers learn exactly how big a hole the pandemic has blown in Colorado's budget. But they've already started the difficult task of trying to patch it.
- Musician Mark Levy discovered an unknown W-2, and a single penny too much in income, would cost him unemployment benefits. Then he found out he wasn't alone.
- Conflicts between workers and their employers are starting to pile up as businesses reopen in Colorado.
- "The very nature of our population and businesses make social distancing very easy," Moffat County commissioners argued.
- Tenants who can't pay rent will get another month of grace. But the pause may not be enough to prevent a tidal wave of displacement.
- "Enough is enough. We can’t afford to wait any longer," said Sen. Faith Winter.
- Dawna Numbers is one in 350,000. A single person in the wave of unemployment that has upended people's lives across the state. CPR followed her on April 16th, as part of our project chronicling "a day in the life" of Coloradans during the pandemic.
- It will take several more weeks to determine whether unemployment claims have peaked, according to state officials.
- The governor says he will be renewing and "strengthening" his March 20 executive order that said state agencies should work with landlords to identify “any lawful measure” to avoid evictions.
- COVID Diaries Colorado: Leaving It All Behind
- "Employers are in a Catch-22, and employees are going to be in a Catch-22."
- Entire sectors of the economy are on hold during the pandemic. And for those out of work and looking uncertainly to the future, "This isn’t a blizzard.
- Colorado has 370,000 gig workers, independent contractors and self-employed people who are allowed to collect unemployment for the first time under a new federal law. But that proved harder than expected.
- Demonstrators in automobiles, and possibly on foot, will converge on downtown Denver Sunday to demand Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ lift restrictions on businesses and public life. It's one more sign that opposition may be growing against the unprecedented measures taken to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
