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Colorado lawmakers to get automatic pay increase as $1.5B shortfall forces cuts to Medicaid, other services
Marianne Goodland | marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Colorado’s $1.5 billion budget deficit is driving widespread cuts across state services, including reduced reimbursement rates for Medicaid providers and…
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Colorado adds 1,400 jobs in March, but state still on track for annual job losses
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Featured
Fight over road funding intensifies as Democrats seek to negate citizen initiative
Marissa Ventrelli | marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
National
Oil prices sink and stocks rally worldwide on hopes for a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz
Stan Choe | stan.choe@associatedpress.com
Colorado Legislature
Colorado bill redirecting $300M in TABOR refunds raises legal concerns, sparks budget committee dispute
Marianne Goodland | marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
2026 Elections
Democrat Jena Griswold holds wide lead in Colorado attorney general primary, her internal poll shows
Ernest Luning | ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Courts
Colorado’s incoming chief appeals judge lays out agenda | APPELLATE UPDATE
Michael Karlik | michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Colorado appeals judges give tutorial on friend-of-the-court briefs | APPELLATE UPDATE
Michael Karlik | michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Colorado appellate judges, lawyers hold annual conference | APPELLATE UPDATE
Michael Karlik | michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
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Calendar
Colorado Politics Calendar May 4-10
Rachael Wright, Special to Colorado Politics | 05/02/2026
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county…
Opinion
From Antero to Trump, Gaslighting too often more common than accountability | Paula Noonan
Paula Noonan | paula-noonan@coloradopolitics.com
Gaslighting has become a contagious political virus. The contagion has spread from the White House to state, county and school-board government. Shame does…
