Julie Gonzales
Republicans are trailing Democrats across Colorado. They hope to gain ground with their ground game.
Democrats have rerouted their volunteers and resources toward expanding phone banks and digital ad spending to reach voters in other ways. The GOP thinks that won’t be enough.
Top Stories
“We have nowhere to go”: Hundreds of thousands of Coloradans at risk of eviction
Moe Clark Coloradans Primary category in which blog post is published
10 major issues being decided in the final hours of Colorado’s 2020 legislative session
Jennifer Brown Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published
Effort to give Colorado child sex assault survivors unlimited time to sue abusers is rejected
Jesse Paul Politics and Government Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado to consider bill similar to one that prompted DHS to cut off “trusted-traveler” programs for New Yorkers
State lawmakers will weigh whether to limit what personal information state agencies, including the Division of Motor Vehicles, can release to other governmental organizations, like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Colorado lawmakers move closer to repealing death penalty after emotional debate
Senate Bill 100 received initial approval after a six-hour debate in the Democratic-led Colorado Senate with vocal opposition from Sen. Rhonda Fields, whose son was killed by two of the three men on the state's death row
Colorado’s 2020 legislative session begins this week. Here’s a rundown of 10 issues to watch.
The state legislature’s break-neck pace from 2019 may not return, but expect fierce debates over health care, criminal justice, guns and transportation
Spring Café linked refugees with state lawmakers. A shortage of immigrants means the Denver coffee shop will close.
Spring Café's operators say they can’t find new refugee arrivals to fill jobs at the coffee shop, citing a decrease in people resettling in Colorado under the Trump administration
Colorado’s 2019 legislative session was a doozy, from Democrats’ growing pains to a blabbermouth GOP strategy
The Capitol was embroiled in its wildest lawmaking term in years -- one that saw Democrats learning their way, lawsuits, overnight work and some big policies that will change Colorado
An effort to ensure Colorado police and sheriffs aren’t carrying out federal immigration law has drawn Polis’ concerns
House Bill 1124 codifies a court ruling preventing jails from holding people just on immigration offenses and would prevent Colorado police from working on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But it started out much more sweeping
Colorado death penalty repeal effort is yanked, with Democratic votes in question
Democrats have tried and failed to repeal the death penalty five times in Colorado since 2000
It’s the Year of the Renter at the Colorado statehouse, from rent control to less stringent eviction timelines
Several bills are on Colorado Democrats’ agenda to fix what tenants call an imbalance of power, while landlords say too much, too fast could worsen housing crisis
