Rae Solomon
Rae Solomon is a reporter for CPR News. Her work is shared with KUNC through the Colorado Capitol News Alliance.
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The axed proposals addressed surveillance pricing, arbitration reform and plastic waste from restaurant takeout. -
Budget pressures, policy compromises and intraparty tensions shaped this year’s session under Colorado’s Gold Dome. -
What lasting impacts did the legislature actually make this year? -
State lawmakers spent the last four months debating and passing hundreds of bills on topics as wide-ranging as transit to K-12 schools to workers rights and elections.
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Three bills are all aimed at filling the void left by a weakened OSHA under the Trump administration. -
The legislation that reduces merchants’ swipe fees now heads to the governor’s desk with big banks in opposition. -
It’s unclear if the measures will be enough to offset the need for reopening one or two prisons. -
Gov. Polis is strongly pushing back against a proposal that would treat legislative staff in his administration like any other lobbyist. -
Colorado will remain a national leader in Right to Repair consumer protections after lawmakers failed to advance a bill that would have weakened those laws. -
A massive and valuable energy resource is sleeping deep underneath the ground in many parts of Colorado: geothermal heat.
