Northern Colorado Center for Investigative Reporting

A decision on whether to dissolve the roundtable was postponed until May 2 to give two cities on the roundtable more time to get feedback from their community members. Some cities frustrated by a lack of progress are already heading for the exit door, and support for the group’s future appears to be tenuous.

The change to make a secret survey used at the state Capitol public comes months after a judge ordered lawmakers to stop using their previous secret ballot system to prioritize legislation because it violated Colorado’s open meetings law.

The new measure will let lawmakers have more private conversations. It will do that by narrowing the definition of public business, let lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically without the communications constituting a public meeting, and meet one on one with fewer restrictions.

The measure would let state lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically with each other by email or text message without the communications constituting a public meeting.

Lawmakers are set to propose new regulations for Colorado’s funeral homes after some recent shocking discoveries about the mishandling of people’s remains. Investigative reporter Scott Franz tells us more today on In The NoCo.

The State Controller’s Office said a software configuration issue was hiding spending data in the checkbook across all state agencies.

KUNC News has discovered more than 16,000 state checkbook entries in the last year missing the names of the people or businesses who received the taxpayer money listed there. Instead, there are generic codes in the spaces where those vendors' names are supposed to be.

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.

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.

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.