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A bill backed by Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, Colorado’s first Mexican-born state lawmaker, would create a grant program for local organizations that help new arrivals get settled and connected with services like housing, healthcare, education, and employment.
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In their annual address to the state legislature, the leaders of Colorado’s two Native American Tribes criticized Gov. Jared Polis and other officials for allowing state gambling laws to continue to exclude tribes. They also called for more support from the state around health care, education and water rights.
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The new measure will let lawmakers have more private conversations. It will do that by narrowing the definition of public business, let lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically without the communications constituting a public meeting, and meet one on one with fewer restrictions.
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Gov. Jared Polis and state lawmakers rode a demonstration train Thursday in a renewed push to develop the Front Range Passenger Rail from Fort Collins to Pueblo. The northern section, from Fort Collins to Denver, could open to the public as soon as 2027.
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For the second year in a row, high school students skipped class and headed to the statehouse to demand legislative solutions to gun violence. State lawmakers are considering several gun control bills, including one that would designate locations like schools, churches, recreation centers and the State Capitol as gun-free zones.
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The northern Front Range has suffered from high rates of air pollution for decades. Three bills announced Thursday by Democratic state lawmakers would take steps to reverse that trend.
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Colorado’s 75th General Assembly convenes Wednesday at the State Capitol. Republican and Democratic lawmakers both are focused on the housing crisis, with conflicting strategies to address it. They’re also looking at bills around public safety, health care costs, youth mental health, climate change, public education and economic inequity.
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The Colorado Supreme Court blocked Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s ballot next year because he incited an insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Colorado's GOP is now threatening to skip the primary election.
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Automatic voter registration systems are in place across the country, but Native American reservations have historically been excluded—until now. State and tribal officials in Colorado are rolling out the first voter registration system of its kind for tribal members ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
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The four-day Global Conference for Israel drew hundreds of protestors to the Denver Convention Center over the weekend. The conference went ahead as planned, despite attempts to disrupt it.