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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Weiser, Colorado’s sitting attorney general, will replace term-limited Gov. Jared Polis, a fellow Democrat who will leave office early next year. -
Hickenlooper’s victory continues his decades-long reign in the upper echelons of Colorado’s political landscape. -
In the second half of the Purplish live event, the temperature rises on reporters in the host seat as they try to make the many ballot questions more digestible. -
The poll was conducted by a Republican firm on behalf of a conservative political nonprofit that doesn’t reveal its donors and is backing Evans, the district’s Republican incumbent. -
This year’s ballot is lengthy, very lengthy, and packed with thorny topics. -
Gia attended bill signings and news conferences, meetings with big-name politicians and members of the governor’s cabinet. -
Initiative 232 was brought by the conservative political nonprofit Advance Colorado and seeks to derail a push by liberal groups to pass a separate graduated income tax ballot measure this year. -
In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden won the 8th Congressional District by 5 points. But in 2024, Donald Trump won it by 2 points — a larger margin of victory than Evans’. -
The 54-year-old retired Marine was originally running for the US Senate this year, but he failed to make the GOP primary ballot. Listen to KUNC host Marty Lenz discuss this story and then read the entire article. -
Initiative 177 seeks to prevent bans on natural gas sales and use in Colorado.
