Jesse Paul
Jesse Paul is a Denver-based political reporter and editor at The Colorado Sun, covering the state legislature, Congress and local politics. He is the author of The Unaffiliated newsletter and also occasionally fills in on breaking news coverage.
A Colorado College graduate, Jesse worked at The Denver Post from June 2014 until July 2018, when he joined The Sun. He was also an intern at The Gazette in Colorado Springs and The News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware, his hometown.
Jesse has won awards for long form feature writing, public service reporting, sustained coverage and deadline news reporting.
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The move came after a deal between consumer advocates, the tech industry and others on how to move forward on the measure fell apart. -
If the agreement holds, it would end nearly two years of negotiations on how to try to prevent AI from harming people when they do things like apply for jobs, seek out loans and pursue a college degree. -
The extraordinary changes to the Senate Appropriations Committee give Democrats a 5-2 advantage on the panel, whereas before they had a 4-3 majority. Democratic state Sen. Jeff Bridges was removed from the committee. -
Senate Bill 5 would move about $250,000 in funding earmarked for wolf reintroduction into a fund aimed at driving down health care costs. Colorado Parks and Wildlife will have to find the funding elsewhere to continue its reintroduction plans — which doesn’t appear to be a problem for the agency. -
State Rep. Ryan Armagost, R-Berthoud, was already set to leave the legislature on Sept. 1 to pursue a job and personal relationship in Arizona. -
Chief among lawmakers’ tasks is plugging a roughly $750 million hole in the state budget caused by the Republican federal tax and spending bill. But there’s plenty more on the docket. -
The savings would be relatively meager — wolf reintroduction cost Colorado taxpayers $3.5 million last year — but the Democrat leading the measure says it’s about priorities as the legislature contends with a steep drop in state tax revenue. -
Incidents keep happening at the statehouse that show lawmakers still have a ways to go in their quest to set a healthy workplace culture. -
There’s a lot of confusion out there about why the hole exists, how the state budget works, and what’s going to be done to address the gap. -
Colorado tax revenue was especially susceptible to changes in the “big, beautiful bill.” Here’s why.The Colorado legislature is convening on Aug. 21 for a special lawmaking term to plug a roughly $750 million hole in the state budget stemming from tax revenue reductions caused by the Republican federal tax and spending bill.
