- Five candidates are competing in the race for party chair, a crucial role as Republicans hope to make up lost ground in the state.
- Statehouse Democrats want to go big on climate change this year. Is Gov. Jared Polis ready to go along with them?
- In 2019, Colorado Democrats tried to transfer the task from humans to a bank of computers set to read different sections of bills simultaneously at 650 words per minute.
- Congress signed off on spending an out-of-this-world number of Benjamins this week. The Purplish crew looks at what all that money means for Colorado.
- Voting technology companies, like Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, are suing a number of people and organizations for spreading conspiracy theories about their role in the 2020 election.
- This episode of Purplish is brought to you by the letter P: For Polis, pandemic, policies, persuasion, piñata, and proposal.
- The December engagement has been kept relatively quiet till now.
- From driving his partner to the hospital, to getting press conference tips from his mother, Gov. Jared Polis reflects on a year that he — and so many Coloradans — would like to forget.
- Public health workers say they've been harassedand intimidated because of the policies their departments have enacted to curb the pandemic. Lawmakers hope to give them a little more protection.
- The state’s first transgender lawmaker, Democratic Rep.
- It could be THE big issue at the state legislature this year, and we have all the details.
- Some state lawmakers and immigrant rights activists think this is the year to roll back some of the workforce policies set in 2006, but the plan will face political blowback as critics say it sets a bad precedent.
- The freshman Republican attended the president's rally but says he did not take part in the breaching of the U.S. Capitol.
- Speaker Alec Garnett will have to juggle the need to address the current economic and health crises with lawmakers' desire to get move forward with policies the pandemic put on hold last year.
- Polis is expected to use the speech to outline his policy priorities and goals for the upcoming months, touching on everything from pandemic stimulus spending to education and transportation reforms.
