Brian Eason
Brian Eason writes about the Colorado state budget, tax policy, PERA and housing. He's passionate about explaining how our government works, and why it often fails to serve the public interest.
Born in Dallas, Brian has covered state and local government in five different states. At the Indianapolis Star, his reporting exposed how local government agencies contributed to neighborhood abandonment by selling blighted homes to absentee investors. For The Denver Post, his reporting showed how policymakers had ignored warning signs for years that culminated in a financial crisis for the Public Employees' Retirement Association and its members. At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he investigated private equity's role in pushing homeownership out of reach in Black neighborhoods across metro Atlanta.
In 2021, Brian completed his master's in public policy while working as a fiscal analyst for the Center for State and Local Finance at Georgia State University.
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Initiative 175 would expand funding for roads through a constitutional amendment. Top lawmakers are racing to pass a bill to neutralize it. -
At Colorado SunFest 2026, the nonpartisan Colorado Polling Institute shared key insights from their latest survey of likely voters. -
The Senate’s Local Government and Housing Committee voted in April to kill the proposals amid fierce resistance from local officials and some neighborhood groups. -
The state House earlier this year passed two bills designed to make it easier to build houses on smaller lots.
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The problem stems from a provision in Proposition 123 that was supposed to hold local governments accountable for increasing the supply of affordable housing. -
Sponsors of industry-backed data center bill say they are amending it in ways that will change the fiscal projections. -
The shortfall means two major things: The General Assembly will have to make funding cuts and it also has no money available to spend on new programs. Those two realities will shape the legislature’s entire 120-day lawmaking term. -
The $95 million a year voters approved when they passed Proposition MM in November is expected to generate enough to fund the Health School Meals for All program. But it might still go back to the ballot. -
The federal government shutdown delayed the release of key business and labor data, leaving forecasters in the dark about the true state of the economy. -
Local governments across Colorado face budget deficits in 2026. Some are tapping their reserves to keep people fed as SNAP benefits lapse.
