Scott Franz
Reporter, InvestigativeEmail: scott.franz@kunc.org
Scott Franz is a government watchdog reporter and photographer from Steamboat Springs. He spent the last seven years covering politics and government for the Steamboat Pilot & Today, a daily newspaper in northwest Colorado.
His reporting in Steamboat stopped a police station from being built in a city park, saved a historic barn from being destroyed and helped a small town pastor quickly find a kidney donor. His favorite workday in Steamboat was Tuesday, when he could spend many of his mornings skiing untracked powder and his evenings covering city council meetings.
Scott received his journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an outdoorsman who spends at least 20 nights a year in a tent. He spoke his first word, 'outside', as a toddler in Edmonds, Washington. Scott visits the Great Sand Dunes, his favorite Colorado backpacking destination, twice a year.
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KUNC News obtained copies of the legal bills through an open records request to the Office of Legislative Legal Services.
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In his ruling, Judge David Goldberg said “the public has the right to know” how individual lawmakers vote to prioritize bills and that the so-called quadratic voting system at the Capitol violates Colorado’s Open Meetings Law.
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A Denver district court judge has ruled that a secret ballot system state lawmakers have used since 2019 to help decide which bills should live or die, violates Colorado’s open meetings law.
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Paul Anslow called residents living near the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport “nut jobs” and belittled their concerns about the airport’s impact on their neighborhood, according to a 2021 transcript of a private conversation given to KUNC News as part of a public records request.
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Like hundreds of other ranchers in Colorado, the Stanko family is anxious about wolf packs being airlifted back to this state, where they were eradicated by the 1940s.
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Democratic lawmakers at the statehouse were using a secret ballot system to decide which bills to consider. KUNC investigative reporter Scott Franz broke the story on that last year and has been covering the twists and turns ever since. Today on In The NoCo, he tells us the latest.
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Supporters say the system helps lawmakers decide which bills should get a piece of the state’s limited budget. But critics have raised transparency concerns, saying it shuts the public out of an important part of the legislative process.
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The McCoy Family Funeral Home in Windsor lost its state license in October after state regulators alleged it was using subcontractors for its services without telling clients.
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Some cases of alleged misconduct at funeral homes can live in this database for months without gaining attention from the public.
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Steamboat Springs created three different zones to regulate short-term rentals, including a red zone where no new permits for those rentals can be issued. Three people living within that zone share their experiences with how the regulations have shaped their lives.