Jared Polis

Democratic and Republican candidates collecting signatures to make their party’s primary ballot can only collect signatures from voters in their party. With unaffiliated voters now making up half of the statewide electorate, partisans are harder to find.

The Department of Corrections says it needs money to fund additional beds. But Colorado lawmakers don’t want to keep writing short-term checks without a long-term plan.

The news was met with shock from state lawmakers, who have been reeling in recent weeks as they cut Medicaid and other state services to address a $1 billion budget shortfall.

An exceptionally warm, dry fall and winter have driven most of the state into drought.

The state predicts that the Covering All Coloradans program will cost Colorado $104.5 million in the fiscal year that began July 1. Nonpartisan fiscal analysts estimated the cost would be $14.7 million.

The letter warned that clemency would be a gift to conspiracy theorists and risks undermining the safety of future elections.

An attempt by state lawmakers to increase wait times for the production of public records has died — for the third year in a row.

During a recent debate, Bennet said Polis is “allergic” to building big statewide coalitions. At another gathering, Bennet said he totally disagrees with the idea that the governor’s health care policies have worked.

The Colorado Sun asked every Democrat in the legislature Wednesday whether Polis should offer Peters clemency after the governor all but said on social media Tuesday that he plans to do so.

Colorado's Democratic governor is signaling his openness to granting clemency to a former county clerk who was convicted in a scheme attempting to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Gov. Jared Polis has faced a pressure campaign from President Donald Trump, who continues to repeat his false claims that the election was stolen from him.