Redistricting

Growing favor for an emergency measure invites a close look at options

In statehouses across the country, the political playing field is being redrawn, as states wade into the murky waters of midcycle redistricting.

The resounding victory of Prop. 50 in California, Tuesday opened a new front in the state-by-state war over partisan redistricting.

The candidate for governor says Colorado should shift its map for Democrats to counter changes by red states.

Denver businessman Kent Thiry says he’s not abandoning the ideal of independent redistricting, but he doesn’t blame blue states for trying to respond to Texas’ new map.

A Colorado Democrat running for Congress wants her state to join the partisan redistricting battle that began in Texas.

The Poudre School District is considering an idea of consolidating some of its schools as figures from the Colorado Department of Education show some of its non-charter schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade declined by 239 students from 2022-23 to 2023-24. The Coloradoan reporter Kelly Lyell joined KUNC "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on the story.

We discuss the redistricting dust-up in Weld County and how new federal regulations on "forever chemicals" will affect Colorado.

Savanah Wolfson doesn’t mince words as she describes what some people in her small hometown of Oak Creek think of joining a new congressional district stretching all the way to Boulder County. “They are mad as hell. They are mad as hell,” Wolfson says. “Especially the ranchers.”

Greeley resident Stacy Suniga says she has always felt like she was living in a poorly drawn congressional district.