This story was originally published by Grist and is part of State of Emergency, a series exploring how climate disasters impact voting and politics. It was published with support from the CO2 Foundation. As the one-year anniversary of the 2021 Marshall fire approached, Kyle Brown was serving as a city councilman in Louisville, a Denver suburb … Read more
Money spent on lobbying in Colorado again hit a record high this year — but the tally only begins to hint at the ways the deluge steers policy through the statehouse. In all, the $69.6 million paid to Colorado lobbyists in the most recent fiscal year, which ended June 30 and included this year’s legislative … Read more
TikTok’s aggressive push to prevent Congress from forcing a sale or ban of the China-owned app was an epic disaster – and insiders are blaming the company’s slick, seasoned lobbyist in Washington who they claim miscalculated with outdated, tone-deaf tactics. As the bipartisan bill moved toward passage late last month as part of a Ukraine-Israel … Read more
Unlike last year, the end of the Colorado legislative session Wednesday came with no fireworks — no protest walkouts, no intracaucus tensions boiling over into public, no last-minute implosions of keystone policy bills. The final day of lawmakers’ nearly four-month session instead was dominated by noticeably brighter spirits as the General Assembly put the finishing … Read more
A bill aimed at barring landlords from using algorithms to set rents died in the Colorado Senate on Wednesday after a group of moderate Democrats joined Republicans to reject a more forceful House version of the measure. The crux of the disagreement was an adopted amendment that bill backers charged had been written by a … Read more
The return of Colorado’s legislature to the Capitol this week brought lofty talk from legislative leaders about the need for civility. It also came with a harsh reality: the acrimony and vitriol that marred last year’s proceedings have done anything but fade away. Simmering tensions have built up for several years, lawmakers on both sides … Read more
