- Eviction filings dropped by half after the new federal order, but hundreds more cases have gone to the courts.
- Lawmakers have rejected it six times. Now, Proposition 118 could make Colorado the ninth state in the country to mandate paid family leave — or set the effort back even further.
- It's political gospel that to win a campaign, you've got to reach individual voters, the more directly the better. So how are campaigns adapting their techniques to meet the challenges of the pandemic? Plus, there's about to be a giant Supreme Court nomination fight in Washington. Do Colorado voters care?
- Some people worry the rapid move to mail ballots nationally is inviting massive fraud. Others fear postal slowdowns could sabotage the whole system. The Purplish team takes a local look at the reality behind the fears here in Colorado, a state with a long-running tradition of universal mail ballots.
- Voters can ensure they’re enrolled at colorado.ballottrax.net — or they can opt out.
- Geared up groups of protesters and counter-protesters have taken to the streets of downtown Denver on recent weekend nights.
- CPR's Public Affairs team is back with your weekly dive into the upcoming election: the big races and the big issues, what we're hearing from candidates — and voters, and the moments that make us go wait... what? It's all here in the new season of Purplish.
- One Republican official reminds her constituents: "You’ve been participating in mail ballots for a long time.”
- The Centers for Disease Control plans to enact a moratorium that will prevent many evictions across the United States starting this Friday, Sept. 4. The order, which was released today, declares that evictions represent a public health crisis amid the pandemic. “I was shocked.
- Colorado voters this November will make decisions on nearly a dozen proposed changes to the state’s laws and constitution. It’s one of the longest statewide ballots in recent history, with three measures referred by state lawmakers, seven proposals from citizen groups and one effort to repeal a recently-passed state law.
- It's one of the longest statewide ballots in recent memory, with measures that tackle everything from the electoral college, to paid family leave, taxes, wolves, abortion, and charity raffles.
- Eviction filings in Colorado courts have accelerated since Polis' ban expired in June, but a long-feared "tsunami" hasn't hit yet.
- Landlords aren't evicting tenants as often as they did before the pandemic, but housing advocates say they're still bracing for impact.
- In the southern Denver metro, Republican candidates are all but ignoring the president’s messaging.
- Now that the $600 federal unemployment benefit has ended, state economists expect that Coloradans will reduce their purchases by 6 percent as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
- State officials are waiting to decide whether -- and when -- they could start paying a $300 unemployment boost ordered by President Donald Trump. Here's why.
