Redistricting

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.

Bob Beauprez knows more than any Coloradan how much pressure – and opportunity – a new congressional seat can create.

The Colorado Supreme Court has approved new maps of legislative districts that will affect statehouse races for the next decade. The new boundaries appear to give Democrats an edge in next year’s elections to determine which party controls the legislative agenda at the Capitol.

Calling it a "watershed moment," the Colorado Supreme Court on Monday unanimously approved new congressional district boundaries for Colorado that were drawn for the first time by an independent commission instead of the state legislature.

A politically diverse committee that has spent half a year vetting the boundaries for Colorado’s U.S. House districts voted 11-1 just before midnight on Tuesday to send a map to the state Supreme Court.