- Amache was one of 10 internment camps for ethnic Japanese during the second world war. Manzanar in California and Minidoka in Idaho are the two that have so far received National Historic Site status.
- Like many previous Interior secretaries, including Coloradans David Bernhardt and Ken Salazar, Haaland is a Westerner. But unlike her predecessors, she also brings a tribal perspective to the table as a member of the Laguna Pueblo.
- Congressional redistricting is a one-in-a-decade political dogfight like no other, and this go-round in Colorado is starting off with some extra challenges.
- With the All-Star Game relocating to Denver, conservative politicians have been quick to make comparisons between the two state's election laws. But many of those claims are incomplete, or outright false.
- The increased interest and money in the race is driven in large part by Boebert.
- The bill isn’t setting out to reinvent the wheel. It will work with programs like SCORE and the SBA’s Small Business Development Centers, both of which have offices in Colorado.
- The mass shooting at a Boulder grocery store has Colorado Democrats rethinking how far they might be willing to push for more restrictive gun laws.
- Biden calls for an assault weapons ban after Boulder killings, but the Senate can’t agree on even more limited policies.
- Congress’s nonpartisan watchdog office will review the decision to make Huntsville the permanent home of Space Command, according to Colorado Springs Rep. Doug Lamborn. The Government Accountability Office will look into the methodology and scoring the Air Force used to make the decision, and not the political considerations.
- The Colorado Democrat has been trying to resolve this conflict between federal and state marijuana laws since 2013.
- In both votes, Colorado’s House delegation split along party lines. Democrats supported the measures, Republicans opposed them.
- The Biden Administration is touring the country to tout the benefits of the Amerian Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill.
- These are the committees that John Hickenlooper, Joe Neguse, Lauren Boebert and others are sitting on.
- 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.
- The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes the $1,400 stimulus checks, a boost to unemployment benefits and more.
