- When Colorado receives its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine next week, the roll-out needs to be seamless to ensure none of the doses are wasted.
- The request comes days after the state party held a townhall to try to dispel doubts among its members about the reliability of Colorado's elections.
- Lawmaking is always a high-stakes, high emotions endeavor. Add in deep divisions in how lawmakers view coronavirus safety measures and the regular session could be far more contentious than normal.
- At a virtual townhall Wednesday night, the head of Colorado’s Republican Party tried to reassure members of the GOP there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the state.
- The staffer has been sent home and state officials are working to alert people who may have been in contact with the person.
- State lawmakers plan to tackle an economic relief package aimed at helping small businesses, expanding broadband access for students and educators doing remote learning, providing assistance for child care providers, and helping renters and landlords.
- Coloradans elected David Ortiz, the first state lawmaker known to use a wheelchair, and his arrival is prompting changes that are long overdue for people with disabilities.
- Gov. Jared Polis and leading lawmakers say they could allocate $200 million or more to help individuals and businesses suffering because of the pandemic.
- Bipartisanship, name recognition, and a whole lot of shoe all play a role in Sen. Kevin Priola's continued political survival.
- Two Democratic leaders at the state legislature confirmed to CPR News that Gov. Jared Polis plans to call a special session to address COVID-19 relief funding.
- The group needed to turn in more than 600,000 valid signatures by 5pm Friday in order to proceed to a recall election. It's the second unsuccessful recall effort launched against Gov. Jared Polis since he took office in 2018.
- Every election is a time of reckoning -- a chance for the state to look at its choices and divisions and consider where things go from here. To begin that conversation, this final episode of the season turns to two guests with a deep understanding of the state's politics and voters.
- Voters may have helped Gov. Jared Polis avoid some fights at the state legislature this year, by approving policies that had the potential to divide him from Democratic lawmakers.
- Pueblo Democrats had hoped a big blue turnout in Pueblo would help flip the congressional seat from red to blue — that didn't happen.
