- A settlement between the airline and the state declared that Colorado’s paid-leave protections don’t apply to Southwest’s unionized employees here.
- Researchers at the Butterfly Pavilion have been able to raise fireflies for the first time in Colorado. The fireflies are a bioindicator about the health of ecosystems.
- Friday Health Plans and Bright HealthCare had hundreds of millions of dollars of investor funding, but their collapse left customers stranded and confused. Could regulators have stopped it?
- Four years after passing a slow-growth law, Lakewood has voted for it to expire in two years.
- The injunction will remain in place while the case proceeds, meaning people over 18 can continue to buy firearms in Colorado.
- Some are regional or issue-specific, but others could affect everyone.
- Colorado’s Open Meeting law has guaranteed public access even to the most heated internal debates over the years, but many other times, those same transparency laws have been ignored.
- CPR News could confirm only one instance where a health or education professional has tried to use the expanded law since it was implemented late in April.
- Proposition HH — a ballot measure put forward by the state’s Democratic leadership — has attracted $360,000 of political donations so far, providing a picture of some of the forces supporting the change.
- Democrats have used an anonymous poll to set their priorities in the legislature. They say it’s a better way to plan the budget.
- It’s the biggest choice on Colorado’s statewide 2023 ballot, but most voters are “highly uninformed” on Prop. HH so far.
- The demise of Friday Health is already affecting customers. A number of doctors are refusing to accept the plan, apparently concerned that they won’t be paid by the insurer.
- Gov. Jared Polis has downplayed the idea that the measure will grow government funding for schools, but other supporters say that’s part of the plan.
- The lawsuit claims both Democrats and Republicans held secret meetings to discuss policies and votes.
- Colorado's highest court has ruled judges must set bond for murder suspects. And changing that rule likely isn’t as simple as passing a law.
- A new state law gives local police more power to stop laser-wielding scofflaws.
