Good look at what was announced yesterday: New property tax relief proposal gives Colorado lawmakers hope for peace in ballot wars — but a truce is elusive denverpost.com/2024/05/07/col… via Nick Coltrain

Colorado will refund two years of tuition at a university, community college or trade school for qualifying students whose families earn less than $90K. How? A new bill created an income tax credit. Details here: denverpost.com/2024/05/19/col… via The Denver Post #HigherEd #Edcolo

Read this powerful story by Seth Klamann (sethklamann.bsky.social) denverpost.com/2024/05/21/col… via The Denver Post

The Denver Post's national spelling bee contestant is going to the finals, y'all! denverpost.com/2024/05/29/scr…

New Colorado tax credit could lift 50,000 children out of poverty, is latest to tap TABOR surplus denverpost.com/2024/06/01/col… via Nick Coltrain

The Denver Art Museum has earned a reputation among tribes and countries for being difficult to deal with when it comes to returning sacred cultural objects in its collection. Cambodia. India. Nepal. Tlingit tribe. Winnebago tribe. All have had issues. denverpost.com/2024/06/10/den…

An anonymous letter, a $10 land deal and powerful metro districts denverpost.com/2024/06/16/col…

A group backed by Kent Thiry and efforts to overhaul Colorado's election system dropped more than $1 million in last-minute spending for a slew of primary races this week, largely mirroring spending from other outside groups boosting moderate candidates: denverpost.com/2024/06/22/col…

With the last campaign finance report of the primary season in, we now know who funded the Kent Thiry-backed group that dumped more than $1 million into several statehouse races with a few days to go before Election Day. It was ... Kent Thiry, who donated $1.24M on June 18.

It didn’t take long for several government entities in Colorado to adopt the new, much-higher, maximum CORA fee rate that went into effect on Monday, July 1. #coleg #copolitics #edcolo coloradofoic.org/colorado-gover…

Lobbyists in Colorado legislature paid nearly $70 million in last year - a record high ⁦Nick Coltrain⁩ ⁦The Denver Post⁩ #copolitics #coleg denverpost.com/2024/07/07/col…

Four new wildfires along the Front Range since Monday... At least 8,300 acres burning. One person dead. Five homes destroyed.

An anonymous donation opened the last section of land for affordable housing in Steamboat. Three years later, voters rejected the development + town is no closer to building there as the housing crisis deepens and prices out local workers: denverpost.com/2024/08/04/aff…

Gov. Jared Polis is set to speak at the DNC tonight, the same night as Gov. Tim Walz’s convention speech. Polis introduced Walz at a Denver fundraiser last week. Polis and Walz were in Congress together + elected gov at same time.

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What school security technologies are CO schools using? AI cameras with facial recognition. Vape sensors that can detect THC with a software upgrade. Panic buttons. Districts across state are talking about these technologies denverpost.com/2024/10/06/ai-… via The Denver Post

Found some interesting data on Western Slope state legislators’ voting records from this past session while doing elections research. Specifically, I was looking at how often they stuck with their party vs. joined the other side of the aisle. For my #copolitics and #coleg nerds:

Years of neglect & mismanagement, from unsafe conditions to armed property managers allegedly serving fraudulent eviction notices, contributed to the collapse of CBZ Management’s properties that it, w/ a PR firm + a city councilwoman, blame on gangs. denverpost.com/2024/11/03/aur…

5 takeaways from Colorado’s 2024 election — including reactions as a new Trump era looms denverpost.com/2024/11/06/col… by Nick Coltrain, Seth Klamann (sethklamann.bsky.social) and John Aguilar

Hansen ignored repeated phone calls last week asking about his coming resignation. His reported new employer, the La Plata Electric Association, has a new CEO welcome on its board agenda later this month, and past agendas indicate Hansen accepted the job last month.