This is the latest way Trump has targeted Democratic-controlled states.

Nonpartisan staffers told lawmakers this month that the way they spent billions of dollars in one-time federal funds given to Colorado during the COVID pandemic contributed to the state’s budget shortfall.

A judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot block child care and other federal social service money from flowing to five states for now.

Initiative 95 would amend the state constitution to require that police officers, sheriff’s deputies and prosecutors alert federal immigration authorities if they charge someone whose immigration status is in question if that person has a prior felony conviction or is suspected of committing a violent crime.

Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has a few months to get his final legislative goals done. He’s also navigating the Trump administration, which seems bent on punishing Colorado.

This is the legislature’s latest attempt to regulate the controversial sector that forms the backbone of daily digital life.

Lawmakers rejected a request to add hundreds of new prison beds, saying the state must first address staffing shortages and parole backlogs.

The Trump administration has been at odds with Colorado.

The legal settlement covers attorneys fees for religious rights groups that sued on behalf of a Catholic health clinic in Englewood and a nurse midwife.

The funds will likely be mostly spent on the primary given that whoever wins the Democratic faceoff will likely become governor in November.