State Legislature Opens for Business
The 2012 state legislature convened Wednesday. Leaders of both parties laid out their priorities for the next 119 days, and rehashed some old wounds.
By Megan Verlee
Confessions of a Reapportionment Commissioner
It’s not the steamiest tell-all of the year, but Bob Loevy’s short e-book, Confessions of a Reapportionment Commissioner, does give readers a behind-the-scenes look at the high-stakes process of redrawing […]
By Megan Verlee
Occupy Protesters Regroup
Occupy Denver protesters began to regroup in Denver’s Civic Center Park Tuesday afternoon and are vowing to stay.
By Megan Verlee
Lawmakers Gear Up For Tough Session
State lawmakers reconvene at the capitol next month and the 2012 session is likely to be a tough one. Colorado still faces some tough budget choices.
By Megan Verlee
Campaign Finance Rule Changes Spark Debate
Next year’s elections are likely to break spending records in Colorado, again. But the rules governing campaign finances are up in the air right now.
By Megan Verlee
Supreme Court Affirms Redistricting Map
The state supreme court today upheld Colorado’s new congressional redistricting map. That map — originally proposed by Democrats — makes three of the state’s seven districts winnable by either party.
By Megan Verlee
Supreme Court Considers New Legislative Maps
When it comes to the once-a-decade process of redrawing Colorado’s state legislative districts, there isn’t one final judge; there are seven. The state’s Supreme Court has to sign off on […]
By Megan Verlee
Getting Hands-On at Colorado Gators
Coloradans are known for death-defying entertainments, from ice climbingto four-wheeling. But here’s one you may not have heard of: alligatorwrestling. The Colorado Gators attraction in the San Luis Valley trainspeople […]
By Megan Verlee
Sheepherders at Center of Fight
Over the past two years, three Peruvian sheepherders have flagged down cars on rural roads near Craig, in northwestern Colorado. The claimed to be escaping abusive working conditions on the […]
By Megan Verlee
New Book Offers A Brew Tour of Colorado
To write his new guide to Colorado breweries, Denver Business Journal reporter Ed Sealover traveled to an insurance sales office in Del Norte, braved a snowstorm in Dolores and sampled […]
By Megan Verlee
Deja Vu with New Boulder Fire
A wildfire burning close to Boulder has forced nearly 2,000 people to evacuate their homes. The Boulder Dome Fire started early Friday morning in open space west of the city.
By Megan Verlee
Hickenlooper Wins Gov, GOP Takes State Offices
For all its twists and turns, shocks and suspense, the governor’s race ended on an remarkably ordinary note when Denver mayor John Hickenlooper took the stage surrounded by family and […]
By Megan Verlee
Court: Campaign Finance Threshold Too Low
Colorado may be forced to change its campaign finance laws… in the wake of a ruling by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday. CPR’s Megan Verlee reports.
By Megan Verlee
Thirsty Cities, Dry Farms: Part 2 – Super Ditch
For more than fifty years, Colorado’s farmland has been drying up; not from drought, but to meet the thirst of growing cities. Now farmers in one of the most threatened […]
By Megan Verlee
Thirsty Cities, Dry Farms: Part 1 – Buy and Dry
Everytime someone in a Front Range city turns on the tap, the water flowing out has a history. Much of it used to go to irrigate thriving farms and support […]
By Megan Verlee
Budget Breakdown – Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Our series, Budget Breakdown, continues with a look at three boogey monsters of the budget process: waste, fraud, and abuse. How much of Colorado’s financial problems could be fixed if […]
By Megan Verlee