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2019 Colorado legislature

Photo by Amanda Slater, Creative Commons, Flickr

Lawmakers eye drug sentencing reforms to ease projected prison population growth People with controlled...

Editors note: House Democrats introduced a bill to change the penalties for drug possession on March 22. The department that oversees Colorado’s prisons is again asking the...

Court secrecy, a handcuffed journalist, ‘Access Denied’: CFOIC’s year-in-review 2018

Two words come to mind when looking back at 2018’s government transparency highlights and lowlights in Colorado. Judicial secrecy. In June, the Colorado Supreme Court baffled many legal...
Edwards, a small town in Eagle County, Colorado.

A silent sorrow: How a 12-year-old’s death launched a suicide-prevention campaign in Eagle County...

Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series examining suicide in rural Colorado.  EDWARDS, Colo. — Walking through the halls of Battle Mountain...

Don’t call them freshmen: New Colorado lawmakers reject term as gendered, belittling

The common term for first-time legislators in Colorado, as in many other places, is “freshmen.” But some among the state’s crop of incoming state representatives...
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