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Lawmakers eye drug sentencing reforms to ease projected prison population growth People with controlled...
Editors note: House Democrats introduced a bill to change the penalties for drug possession on March 22.
The department that oversees Colorado’s prisons is again asking the...
Court secrecy, a handcuffed journalist, ‘Access Denied’: CFOIC’s year-in-review 2018
Two words come to mind when looking back at 2018’s government transparency highlights and lowlights in Colorado.
Judicial secrecy.
In June, the Colorado Supreme Court baffled many legal...
A silent sorrow: How a 12-year-old’s death launched a suicide-prevention campaign in Eagle County...
Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series examining suicide in rural Colorado.
EDWARDS, Colo. — Walking through the halls of Battle Mountain...
Don’t call them freshmen: New Colorado lawmakers reject term as gendered, belittling
The common term for first-time legislators in Colorado, as in many other places, is “freshmen.”
But some among the state’s crop of incoming state representatives...