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Tag: Jared Polis
Strike vote hits home: How Denver teachers explain looming walk-out to...
Rebecca Basgal, who’d been up the night before battling anxiety, promised herself she wouldn’t let her students see how worried she was about the...
Slideshow: Denver’s MLK Marade embraces black lives, inclusiveness and human rights
It’s been three years since Black Lives Matter activists commandeered Denver’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade in the wake of the death of...
Polis punts decision to open shuttered prison, seeks ‘holistic’ solution to...
Colorado’s prisons are 99 percent full, and the inmate population is projected to rise. But Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, who has made criminal justice...
Colorado lawmakers who questioned governor Tuesday keep quiet Wednesday
Gov. Jared Polis released his first draft budget this week, and some lawmakers were quick to question what was in it — and what...
What Jared Polis asked for (and left out) in his $33.7B...
Jared Polis campaigned on bringing universal, full-day kindergarten to Colorado. Two days after being sworn in as governor, he said in his State of...
Jared Polis lays out policy priorities, with free kindergarten on top....
Like the man himself, Jared Polis's first-year agenda for Colorado is ambitious.
Fixes to a sputtering education system. Addressing climate change. Lowering health care costs....
Guest Post: Why TABOR means we can have nice things
Taxpayer Bill of Rights. TABOR. A legislative victory for the libertarian state of Colorado. But perhaps one of the most hated bills by progressives...
Slideshow: This is what a blue wave looks like Images from...
Few things are bluer than Colorado's sky. But today, the blueness of the five statewide office holders who were inaugurated in front of the...
Littwin: It wasn’t just Polis who made history — it was...
It wasn’t just Jared Polis who made history as the first openly gay man to be sworn in as governor of any state.
Most of...
New sheriff, new town: Jared Polis takes reins from Hickenlooper in...
Colorado had never seen an Inauguration Day like it did on Tuesday.
It had never seen a governor-elect descend the Capitol steps in blue sneakers,...