Taylor Dolven
Taylor Dolven writes about politics (elected officials, campaigns, elections) and how policy is affecting people in Colorado for The Colorado Sun.
She has been a journalist for 13 years, previously writing about transportation for The Boston Globe, tourism for The Miami Herald and immigration for Vice News. Her work has exposed dark money schemes behind political mailers, created a WhatsApp newsletter for cruise ship workers who were being misled by their employers during the pandemic, and uncovered egregious construction errors on Boston’s only subway expansion in the last 30 years.
Most recently, she was a fellow at the University of Colorado's Center for Environmental Journalism where she took classes related to climate change and the clean energy transition. She is from Colorado and is fluent in Spanish.
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Legislative leaders are prepping a last-minute bill to blunt the impact of the proposed constitutional amendment. -
A compromise bill backed by environmental groups is still being negotiated. -
A Democrat who attended the Opportunity Caucus’ Vail retreat last year sided with Republicans to kill the measure. -
Companies that create and use AI wouldn’t have to disclose how their systems help make decisions on things like hiring, loans and housing. -
Lawmakers are trying to find a way to lift enrollment freezes to a government subsidy program that helps low-income families cover the cost of childcare. -
It’s unclear if the measures will be enough to offset the need for reopening one or two prisons. -
From banning masks for law enforcement to empowering civil liberties lawsuits, the legislature has considered a range of proposals this session. -
Judge again bars Gov. Polis from ordering Colorado state employees to respond to a subpoena from ICEIt’s the latest legal loss for the governor in a case brought against him for attempting to share information with federal immigration officials. -
A transparency bill sponsored by Opportunity Caucus leaders and progressives has stalled. In its place, a new bill, sponsored only by more progressive Democrats, was introduced Friday.
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A parole backlog and new laws lengthening sentences are leading to a surge in the prison population.
