- We're down to the last two weeks of session and that means two things: rush, rush rush, and stall, stall, stall.
- If allowed to stand, Minority Leader Hugh McKean's accidental vote could make it look in the historic record like the gun control bill had bipartisan support — and from the Chamber’s top Republican no less.
- This sort of state-regulated health insurance plan would grant Colorado the power to regulate the cost of care at hospitals and doctor’s offices.
- Colorado’s finances have faced a roller-coaster year during the pandemic.
- Through new fees and tweaks to the tax code, Democrats are moving forward with policies that could bring in a lot of new money to state coffers, all without having to ask voters' permission.
- How lawmakers talk about race isn’t just an issue of decorum. It's also come up in many policy debates this year, from criminal justice reform to health care and education.
- The new bill would put limits on younger medical marijuana users, require new packaging for concentrates, change how coroners collect toxicity reports and more.
- Issues of race and systemic racism have boiled over repeatedly during this legislative session, in policy discussions and public comments, exposing deep divisions in lawmakers' views, and their lived experiences.
- Colorado Democrats are pushing a historic number of measures this legislative session to support and protect undocumented immigrants. The proposals would remove restrictions that limit their access to career opportunities and state benefits, change how they’re referred to in state law and expand the law for blackmailing someone because of their immigration status.
- Transportation. Guns. The public option. Climate change. We check back in on how four of the biggest policy areas of the session are shaping up.
- Dominion Voting Systems employee Eric Coomer became the subject of conspiracy theories and the target of harassment shortly after the 2020 election.
- Compared to the wide support for 2020's police accountability bill, these new criminal justice proposals have run into significantly more opposition.
- Some state lawmakers want to make even more changes to how police do their jobs, but their ideas face stiff opposition amid rising crime and changing politics.
- The measures don’t go as far as some advocates for reforming gun policies had hoped, but supporters say they will make key changes to reduce gun violence and make effective steps to save the most lives.
- An effort to set a cap on the potency of marijuana products looks like a no-go with lawmakers this year, but other measures are still on the table.
- Renters and undocumented immigrants are two groups that could see their situations change significantly, under a slate of progressive policies at the statehouse.
