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Fears of Obamacare repeal drive packed healthcare town hall

Hundreds of Coloradans fearful over losing their health insurance in the face of the Republican Obamacare replacement plan filled the gym of Denver’s West...

GOP Senate prez under fire for state transportation tax plan

Reaction from conservative lawmakers and their allies to a transportation bill introduced Wednesday afternoon has been swift and from some, brutal. The plan would seek voter approval to...

Lawmakers draft bill that relies on sales tax hike to pay...

With the 2017 General Assembly just days from its halfway mark, a bill to remedy some of the state’s biggest transportation headaches showed up...

The statehouse skinny: Guns, roads and rubber duckies

Editor's note: Every week, we send a newsletter to subscribers. This week's, which is republished below, is a conversation between The Colorado Independent's Managing...

No talking about roads without talking about schools, Colorado Speaker says

The tightrope state legislators have been trying to walk in the attempt to find the billions needed to pay for the state’s transportation needs...

Opening Day at the Colorado General Assembly: One day down, 119...

The 2017 session of the Colorado General Assembly already had distinguished itself before today’s Opening Day. It includes the first Latina Speaker of the House,...

The Colorado General Assembly begins its 2017 session next week. Here’s...

Quick — name the biggest accomplishment of the 2016 General Assembly. And no fair counting the budget — it’s the only thing lawmakers legally...

How charter schools are dodging Colorado laws

Educators say people without college degrees, including high schoolers, are teaching in Pre-K through fifth grade classes at the Community Leadership Academy, a publicly...

How Colorado Dems beat attacks on the Clean Power Plan

DENVER -- A months-long attempt by Republican lawmakers to halt state action on the Clean Power Plan came to a predictable end Wednesday in...

‘Bullies have won’ in the SCFD fight, say gagged arts leaders

Stop griping or your funding will be cut. That was the warning small arts and cultural groups gleaned from their funder, the Scientific and...