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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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. -
Democrats at the Capitol also pushed back the start date of Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI law, shored up subsidies on health insurance and tweaked a pair of measures on the November ballot. -
The moves comes after the Berthoud Republican abruptly resigned from the state legislature last week in an apparent attempt to avoid a censure. -
The move came after a deal between consumer advocates, the tech industry and others on how to move forward on the measure fell apart. -
If the agreement holds, it would end nearly two years of negotiations on how to try to prevent AI from harming people when they do things like apply for jobs, seek out loans and pursue a college degree.
