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The party is torn between its grassroots, with their concerns about the 2020 election and their hunger for a more combative tone from lawmakers, and its more traditional voters, who […]

Over the past 120 days, lawmakers have argued over justice reform, housing, behavioral health and so much more — we’ll wrap up everything they did — and didn’t — get done.

Colorado ranks last in the nation, when it comes to mental health care available, compared to the number of people who need it. This year state lawmakers are hoping to make a big difference in the problem.

Lawmakers are debating whether to ban menthol cigarettes, flavored vapes and similar products. It’s an issue that’s pulled in tons of lobbying money and is causing some deep divisions between usual political allies.

And what do the choices made at the GOP state assembly say about the state of that party?

The story of how one county clerk came to believe in false claims about her own voting equipment, what it reveals about the many ways in which our election system […]

Colorado has been a landmark state for both sides of the abortion debate: home to one of the earliest laws to liberalize access to the procedure, as well as the birthplace of the personhood movement. Now, with Roe v Wade in doubt at the federal level, state lawmakers are writing a new chapter Colorado’s convoluted history on the issue.

For more than a decade, Colorado lawmakers have pursued a range of criminal justice reforms.