- Next year’s state budget is charting a remarkably smooth course through the Colorado house.Lawmakers say less money equals fewer fights.CPR Megan Verlee reports.
- Colorado’s Capitol dome was recently listed as an endangered historic place.Lawmakers agree it needs to be repaired, and fast.They just don’t agree on how to pay for it.CPR’s Megan Verlee reports.
- Colorado’s $18.2B budget for next fiscal year survived its first vote in the Senate virtually unchanged.That doesn’t meant the process didn’t involve a lot of debate, though.CPR’s Megan Verlee reports.
- With as much as a 50% cut in state aid looming, colleges and universities are pressing the state for more authority to raise tuition and allocate financial aid. The Senate Education committee voted unanimously Thursday to support that plan, as long as schools can show that they’re stil serving lower and middle-income students. But student
- Are payday lending companies preying on low-income borrowers, or providing themwith a needed source of credit? That’s a question the Colorado Senate takes up when it votes on a billthat could be the end of the industry in the state. CPR’sMegan Verlee reports.
- Needle exchanges are illegal in Colorado. A bill in the legislature would change that. Megan Verlee reports on two programs that operate anyway. And Ryan Warner talks to addiction expert Michael Kidorf, of Johns Hopkins University.
- Marijuana was in the air at the state capitol Tuesday — literally and figuratively. Inside, the House gave preliminary approval to a toughened-up version of a bill regulating medical marijuana dispensaries. Across the street, in Civic Center Park, fans of all things cannabis celebrated both the legal and illegal aspects of the drug.
- In this season of holiday feasts, a growing number of Coloradans are turning to food stamps and charities just to put meals on the table. That has some agencies worried about keeping up with the need. KCFR’s Megan Verlee reports. Story images.
- Turn on the news or pick up a local paper and it’s hard to imagine anything but the DNC is happening in Denver this week. But just a few blocks away from the downtown action the picture looks very different. KCFR’s Megan Verlee went out to see what Denverites think of the event. View photo.
- Utilities say they need a new transmission line in southern Colorado to make renewable energy possible. Residents fear it will destroy the landscape they love. CPR’s Megan Verlee talks to Ryan Warner. Then Ryan talks to L.A. Times reporter Judith Lewis about moving power generation closer to population centers.
- DPS is reassessing its reform plan against the backdrop of a contentious school board race. Megan Verlee reports and Ryan Warner talks with Nancy Mitchell of Education News Colorado about the race.
- Staying on the family farm can take a lot of creativity these days. It may mean inviting the public to join you. We get a report from Megan Verlee. Then Ryan Warner talks to Wendy White of the Colorado Department of Agriculture.
- [This story originally aired August 15, 2008] The Colorado office of the Bureau of Land Management held its most expensive, and possibly most controversial, mineral lease auction ever on Thursday. On the block were more than 55,000 acres of the Roan Plateau on the Western Slope.
- KCFR’s Megan Verlee reports on a protester who received a ticket for trespassing at a recent McCain campaign event in Denver. The protester is challenging the citation in court, this week.