Politics & Government

Adjust your 2019 budgets accordingly.

The former state representative is the new executive director of Colorado Rising, the group behind Proposition 112.

With Democrats fully in charge at the Colorado Capitol, the time might be right.

Looking ahead to 2019, here are ten people that will dictate the direction of Colorado politics in the new year.

Shutdown? Or shut up?

A private contractor made big profits off Denver’s homeless sweeps.

The award is reserved for “the Coloradan who best exemplifies the effort to change our once liberty-loving Colorado into the command-and-control state of California.”

There are lots of reasons that politics in 2018 gave us, or at least, some of us, reasons to celebrate.

In a year where election results should have been the most dramatic news in politics, Colorado’s lawmakers outdid themselves with one scandal after another.

State Senator Rhonda Fields is assembling a bill designed to help make sure that police officers involved in fatal on-duty shootings are ready before they go back on duty.

Jodeh operates the educational nonprofit Meet the Middle East and serves as the first female spokesperson for the Colorado Muslim Society and as the deputy policy adviser for the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado.

Chalk gay conversion therapy up there with electroshocking as among the the most barbaric of mental health practices.

A Colorado judge leading a panel charged with analyzing ethics complaints against new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has concluded that the group lacks jurisdiction to do so.

Senator Randy Baumgardner, the target of multiple sexual harassment allegations, has tendered his resignation.

The State of Colorado has agreed to independent oversight after repeatedly failing to improve wait times for mentally ill individuals lingering untreated in jails.

A new poll shows Colorado’s GOP Senator in trouble heading into 2020.

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock announced the launch of the new Public Integrity Division.

The study finds that Durango is not allowing the homeless to sleep anywhere in public, pushing them out of the city.

MoveOn just released the results of its straw poll of possible Democratic presidential candidates in 2020.

9News morning anchor Gary Shapiro talks about the tweetstorm he caused when he told Twitter followers he’d muted anyone whose response consisted only of the words “fake news.”

Filmmakers behind a new documentary about Denver’s tiny home village hope to convince voters to support the Right to Survive Initiative in the May 2019 municipal elections.

A member of Denver’s city council outlines a new plan to deal with the proliferation of electric scooters in the community.