Senator Wants Mentally Ill Out of Solitary
More than a third of the people serving in solitary confinement in Colorado prisons have mental health problems and some lawmakers are concerned the punishment is making those problems worse. […]
By Megan Verlee
Looking Back at the Legislature
Ask a Colorado lawmaker to sum up the session that just finished and “mixed results” might be the phrase you’d hear. With the session over, legislators are looking back on […]
By Megan Verlee
Marijuana Businesses Struggling With Finances
In the past two years people across the state have founded hundreds of medical marijuana businesses. It’s not an industry for the faint of heart though — hefty state regulations, […]
By Megan Verlee
New Laws Taking Effect
Starting today, Coloradans who want to be in an altered state won’t have as many ways to get there, farmers won’t have to pay sales tax on some things they […]
By Megan Verlee
Medical marijuana inspectors hitting the streets
Ready or not, Colorado’s medical marijuana industry enters a new phase this Friday, when state regulations go into full effect. The change has many businesses scrambling. And as Colorado Public […]
By Megan Verlee
State Revenues On Track for Budget
For the past two-and-a-half years, the legislature’s quarterly economic updates have been a cause for doom and gloom around the statehouse as the prelude to yet another round of budget […]
By Megan Verlee
Redistricting Dies in Legislature
Last night lawmakers called it quits on one of the biggest decisions facing them this session.
By Megan Verlee
Legislature Spends Last Day in Stand Off
The General Assembly wrapped up its session yesterday. For most of the day, lawmakers were focused on a stand-off between House Republicans and Senate Democrats.
By Megan Verlee
Redistricting Likely Headed to Courts
3PM update: Senate President Brandon Shaffer and House Speaker Frank McNulty both say they’lll go back to the negotiating table today to try one last time to reach a deal […]
By Megan Verlee
Legislature Struggling for Redistricting Compromise
The state legislature is moving closer to a showdown over its dueling redistricting bills. Yesterday a House committee considered the Republicans map, while members of the Senate weighed a map […]
By Megan Verlee
Bill Would Add Fossil Fuels to Energy Office
The Governor’s Energy Office could see a major shift in its focus, its staffing, and even its name, under legislation moving through the General Assembly. The bill passed its first […]
By Megan Verlee
No Lower Tuition For Undocumented Students
An effort to make it easier for illegal immigrants to go to college in Colorado is finished, at least for this year. The bill died in a House committee on […]
By Megan Verlee
Budget Breakdown: Rural Schools Fear Consolidation
Here’s a fact of budget life: it costs the state more to educate kids in small towns. As budgets keep shrinking, some rural districts are worried they may be pressured […]
By Megan Verlee
Redistricting Committee Miles Apart on Maps
The General Assembly’s bipartisan redistricting committee has started the hard work of negotiating a new Congressional map for the state. Democratic and Republican members introduced very different proposals last week.
By Megan Verlee
Lawmakers Divided Over Redistricting
Thisweek state lawmakers tackle what’s likely to be the thorniest issue ofthe session – redrawing Congressional districts.
By Megan Verlee
Parties Miles Apart on Redistricting
The fight over redrawing Colorado’s Congressional districts started in earnest Friday. Both parties unveiled their proposals for redistricting — and they couldn’t be further apart.
By Megan Verlee