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Colorado legislation aims to bolster failing foster system

DENVER – Sweeping legislative reforms to Colorado’s troubled foster care program take effect in August with the goal of revamping a system where kids graduate from high school at lower rates...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Stapleton taps GOP state lawmaker as running mate

DENVER – In a bid to carve out the middle ground in an increasingly polarized political environment, Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton has tapped Lang Sias, a mode...

DATE: Jul 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado pension finances improve following reforms

DENVER – Colorado’s troubled public pension has been pulled back from the fiscal brink. That was the key takeaway from Friday’s pension board meeting, the first since state lawmak...

DATE: Jun 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado governor vetoes bill to make autopsy records secret

DENVER – Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday vetoed a bill that would have withheld child autopsies from public inspection, delivering a victory to government transparency advocates an...

DATE: Jun 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

As state cuts back, Colorado college student costs soar

DENVER – In 2000, Colorado taxpayers footed 68 percent of the costs of a college degree, with students chipping in about one-third. Two decades and two recessions later, that rati...

DATE: May 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado business groups will push for tax hike for roads

DENVER – A coalition of business groups announced plans Friday to ask Colorado voters this fall to raise sales taxes to pay for $6 billion in transportation projects. Their announ...

DATE: May 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmakers push for reforms as prison costs rise

DENVER – A decade ago, faced with runaway costs and a growing prison population, Colorado lawmakers pushed the state Department of Corrections to transition more offenders out of prison and ...

DATE: May 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmakers send redistricting reforms to ballot

DENVER – Colorado voters this November will be asked to vote on two ballot measures that would overhaul the state’s redistricting process and seek to prevent partisan gerrymandering. ...

DATE: May 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado boosts savings to $730 million, may need more

DENVER – Thanks to a boost from a recent tobacco industry settlement, Colorado plans to sock away an extra $90 million next year in the state’s reserves. But by one credit rating agency’s an...

DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmakers strike deal on transportation funding

DENVER – After years of explosive growth and legislative inaction combined to choke Colorado’s roads with congestion, top state lawmakers on Monday announced a deal to spend upwards of $3 bi...

DATE: May 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado lawmakers punt property tax dilemma to summer

DENVER – After a late legislative push fell apart, Colorado lawmakers won’t take action this session on one of the state’s most pressing financial dilemmas — a constitutional trigger that’s ...

DATE: May 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado House Democrats propose transportation bill rewrite

DENVER – With just days left in the legislative session, Colorado House Democrats on Tuesday proposed a sweeping rewrite of a transportation funding bill that would boost funding for mass tr...

DATE: May 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News