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The Beats

A short list of select topics

Lawmakers just cut 58% from Colorado public colleges. Federal money will ease the blow.

Colorado’s Joint Budget Committee slashed $493 million from next year’s higher education budget, a massive 58% cut from this year’s funding levels by lawmakers...

College leaders: Colorado’s CARES Act money doesn’t do enough for schools and students

Federal assistance meant to lessen the economic blow of COVID-19 on Colorado’s colleges isn’t fully meeting the needs of their neediest students and comes...
Front-line health care workers attend to people accessing the drive-through coronavirus testing bay at National Jewish Health in Denver, Monday, April 27, 2020. (Photo courtesy of CPR News)

How Colorado caught COVID-19 Colorado Public Radio investigates how Colorado can learn from this...

The March 5 news conference announcing Colorado’s first confirmed case of COVID-19 was over. The governor and the director of the Colorado Department of Public...

Colorado lawmakers grapple with doing the people’s work when the people can’t be there...

Temperature checks. A closed cafeteria. Spaced seating. Lawmakers in masks separated by plexiglass. This may be the new normal at the state Capitol when...

Update: The latest on COVID-19 in Colorado Polis acknowledges cases of inaccurate reporting of...

We're wrapping up the daily Update as part of our transition away from a daily news site. For a good look at the latest...
U.S. Supreme Court, by Åsmund Ødegård, via Flickr: Creative Commons

The U.S. Supreme Court hears Colorado’s ‘faithless electors’ case From his Denver office, Attorney...

DENVER — When it came time Wednesday for Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser to make his first-ever arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, he...
Closures and social distancing because of the coronavirus pandemic have made gathering signatures to get issues on the November ballot difficult. (Photo by Forest Wilson)

Money, social issues look for another path onto Colorado’s 2020 ballot as coronavirus complicates...

Before coronavirus, Colorado voters were facing the likelihood of a long November ballot — pages filled with questions about hot-button issues such as paid...
The state Capitol on Jan. 8, 2020, the opening day of the session. (Photo by John Herrick)

The coronavirus crippled Colorado’s state budget. Here’s what you should know. Lawmakers will have...

A new economic forecast by the nonpartisan Legislative Council estimates Colorado faces a $3.3 billion budget shortfall this coming fiscal year, a historic drop...

Federal judge orders Weld County sheriff to protect health of jail inmates during pandemic...

A federal judge Monday ruled the treatment of inmates in the Weld County jail during the COVID-19 pandemic violated constitutional protections against cruel and...
NYTIMPEACH : House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) questions Intelligence Committee Minority Counsel Stephen Castor and Intelligence Committee Majority Counsel Daniel Goldman during the House impeachment inquiry hearings, Monday Dec. 9, 2019. POOL Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times)

Littwin: Ken Buck is still leading the Colorado GOP — right off the cliff

Maybe the most shocking thing I can say about the release of the latest Great Depression-like unemployment numbers is that here in Colorado, Ken...