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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Faith Winter, a Broomfield Democrat, was a fierce advocate for transit. She was entering her 12th and final year as a state lawmaker. -
Bird did not attend the retreat and had resigned as the chair of the Opportunity Caucus, which hosted the gathering, in August. -
The Opportunity Caucus lawmakers face allegations they violated the state’s gift ban by attending a Vail retreat with lobbyists paid for by dark money. -
The complaints were filed by Colorado Common Cause, a liberal-leaning nonprofit that advocates for an open government. They were submitted to Colorado’s Independent Ethics Commission, which is charged with reviewing allegations of violations of the state’s 20-year-old gift ban.
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Polis is also asking the legislature for $10 million as 600,000 Coloradans are about to lose food stamps in “crisis within a crisis." -
Caroline Dias Goncalves, a 19-year-old college student detained by ICE in June, is one of the plaintiffs. -
The ballot initiatives LL and MM would shore up funding for the Healthy School Meals for All program and help cover the cost of federal cuts to SNAP. -
Carolina Suarez Estrada, who was taken into custody in Salida, and her son, Luciano, remain in immigration detention in Texas. -
Colorado’s so-called sales tax vendor fee is being shut off next year to generate about $57 million in new tax revenue each year. -
During the special session, the legislature passed a bill ceding the responsibility of cutting the budget to the governor’s office.
