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Coronavirus bills push lobbying to record total in Colorado. Here’s a look at the...
The total spent on lobbying at the Colorado Capitol topped $40 million this session — a record driven in part because of contentious last-minute...
An open letter from an early career Colorado journalist Your weekly roundup of Colorado...
For the first item in this week's column, I'm turning the mic over to Lucy Haggard, a born-and-raised Coloradan and recent graduate of the...
Greene: The hardest stories Colorado has one of the highest suicide rates in the...
Dear readers,
The story of Ben Rosenthal’s death last year is not mine to tell.
For starters, I never met the 26-year-old from Marin County, California....
Guest Post: How many teacher deaths are we OK with?
I have a question for the school boards and administrators who have decided that we should go back to 100% in-person learning this fall:...
Guest Post: Child care costs in Colorado — why some moms don’t take the...
I remember crunching numbers all the time when my child was one-year-old and in a Head Start program: How much of a raise would...
‘Deep introspection’ on ‘race and racism’ at Colorado Public Radio Your weekly roundup of...
More and more, news audiences are learning about the experiences of journalists of color as outlets again grapple with the makeup of their newsrooms and their...
“Bright lights in dark times”
Dear reader,
Our apologies for our recent radio silence. Our new project launch with COLab (the Colorado News Collaborative) has us gathering string and casting nets...
Guest Post: A groundbreaking 2019 law opened records on police internal affairs investigations. The legislature...
Fourteen months before Colorado lawmakers passed the sweeping law enforcement accountability and transparency bill recently signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis, they approved a...
Colorado news outlets got some ‘breathing room’ with federal relief PPP loans Your weekly...
Colorado news organizations were among millions of businesses nationwide that accepted federal money to help weather a financial battering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Data released...
MEDIA: Colorado academics and experts join a battle over the U.S. Global Media agency...
Roughly two dozen Colorado academics and experts are calling for the state's federal leaders to safeguard public funding for open-source technology projects. These important initiatives,...