- When rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol a year ago, most members of the Colorado delegation were in the House and Senate chambers. A year later, the memories still haunt them.
- The violent breach of the Capitol has left those who were there with difficult memories, and even harder questions.
- Democrats are struggling to decide on an appropriate response to Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Islamophobic rhetoric, while Republican leaders remain unwilling to sanction her.
- Dotted across Colorado are hundreds of old abandoned mines and orphan wells still in need of expensive cleanup, and no company left to pay for it. Wells like Green Number 2 in Adams County. The site was orphaned — abandoned by a driller that no longer operates in Colorado — in 2017.
- Colorado is one of the few states where the rules for redistricting encourage competitive districts. But is competition really all it's cracked up to be?
- Redistricting commission staff have released a new proposal that -- if adopted -- would make some dramatic changes to Colorado's congressional districts.
- The new map splits the Western Slope to create a southern district, and potentially sets up competitive races in two seats.
- The goal is to mobilize people to help the Independent Redistricting Commissions fully understand where their communities are and how they want to see the lines drawn.
- Two stories in this episode about different communities that are hoping to persuade the commissions to take their concerns into account as they draw their maps.
- The first draft of the Congressional map puts the state's newest district north and east of Denver. The district’s spine is U.S. Highway 85, as it stretches up and out of the north metro area towards Greeley.
- The first draft of the Congressional map puts the state's newest district north and east of Denver. We hit the road to hear what residents think of that idea.
- Rep. Jason Crow says he'll keep working to help Afghan allies who aided U.S. troops. Republicans say President Biden failed.
- Republican relief, a bit of Democratic chagrin, and a whole lot of thumbs hoping to sneak onto all sorts of scales -- we look at the political side of Colorado's new approach to redistricting.
- Colorado's redistricting is in the hands of new independent commissions -- we explain what led up to the change and how the process is works.
- Redistricting: that once-in-a-decade process with huge implications for representation and the balance of power, in Colorado and nationwide. In a special season of Purplish, we look deep into how the state's new process is working and what may come of it.
- “It was heartbreaking, it was tragic. Seeing those scenes was terrible for all of us.”
