Freshmen Rep. Jeff Hurd steps into a high-wire policy push with bill to extend ACA tax credit www.cpr.org/2025/11/24/h... #copolitics

happy fire nico day to all who celebrate

The state capped a drug at $31,000 a year and the pharmaceutical company said it would suffer irreparable harm

The hill overlooking downtown “was littered with the bones of developers” who tried and failed to build housing. Why Littleton has become a battleground in the war over housing affordability and density in Colorado coloradosun.com/2025/10/23/h...

hanging out at the #Georgia Public Service Commission today, where Georgia Power will make its case to fill a 10,000MW need with mostly gas-fired power plants as well as solar and batteries. My preview of what's at stake is here: www.ajc.com/business/202...

Crowds turn out across Colorado for “No Kings” protest, seeing threats to democracy. @coloradosun.com has reporters around the state covering the rallies that are expected to draw thousands

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

how on earth did this wirecutter writer find a food historian named gnocchi to interview about pasta

Even corrections officers claim Cuyahoga County Jail’s conditions impact their health. “Over the years, many officers said they have developed breathing problems from the air quality,” says the general counsel for the Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which represents corrections officers.

TL;DR: 5 justices say Trump doesn't have to immediately restore the funding, but 5 *also* signal that the underlying directives are unlawful. That sends a fairly strong (if mixed) message that Trump will lose these cases *eventually,* but only once they're brought in the Court of Federal Claims.

Your periodic reminder that before Trump cut taxes, Colorado voters and lawmakers did, too — again and again. "History speaks loudly and clearly on how this will play out. In years when revenues drop, we will sorely miss those dollars.” coloradosun.com/2025/08/18/c...

"...escalates the President’s unprecedented attacks on the independence & integrity of the federal statistical system. "The president seeks to blame someone for unwelcome economic news. "...firing Dr. McEntarfer is without merit & undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics..."

All fun and games when the federal government undermines trust in climate science or public health, now we get to see if the financial class cares about economic truth

I'm sorry but tourist attraction is hilarious

What Medicaid work requirements actually mean in practice, by @taydolven.bsky.social coloradosun.com/2025/07/02/r...

Read more about the report findings from @brianeason.bsky.social in @coloradosun.com. coloradosun.com/2025/07/01/n...

You can build a house almost anywhere in Colorado. You just can’t build one that most people can afford. Local zoning codes overwhelmingly prohibit duplexes, townhouses, condominiums & apartment units. by @brianeason.bsky.social coloradosun.com/2025/07/01/n...

A landmark study from @zoningatlas.bsky.social found that local governments in Colorado overwhelmingly prohibit duplexes, townhouses, condos and apartments, as well as single-family homes on small lots, effectively outlawing the most affordable types of #housing coloradosun.com/2025/07/01/n...

Man. This quote. “I just find it fascinating that this student can write an article, a series of articles that are essentially (racist) manifestoes, and that’s free speech. But my class can’t be called ‘Race, Entrepreneurship and Inequality.’ ” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

The biggest winners of the Republican-backed spending bill are the wealthiest Americans, a new analysis from the Congressional Budget office shows, while the biggest losers are the poorest. coloradosun.com/2025/06/13/r...

Seniors didn’t cause Colorado's housing crunch. But in many ways, they are increasingly at the center of it. Wrote about the mismatch between Colorado's #housing stock and the needs of older generations, and the pressure that puts on everyone in a tight market. coloradosun.com/2025/06/16/a...

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is launching a new probe of corporate landlords, citing our 2023 American Dream for Rent investigation in Atlanta www.ajc.com/news/atlanta...

"In just 11 months since the company arrived in Memphis, xAI has become one of Memphis’ largest emitters of smog-producing nitrogen oxides. The plant is in an area that already leads the state in emergency department visits for asthma." www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Harrowing account of what was happening behind the scenes in Colorado's most competitive congressional race

Yadira Caraveo’s former aides say they were mistreated, traumatized by Colorado congresswoman

This report came out too late to make it into my story, but there's a lot of reason to believe the $15M projected annual cost of Colorado's proposed data center tax breaks could increase exponentially if it achieves its stated goals coloradosun.com/2025/04/24/d...

*points at sign* abcnews.go.com/538/democrat...

When Virginia in 2016 passed a law extending its data center tax breaks, legislative analysts expected it to cost the state around $50 million a year. By 2023, the tax abatements were worth nearly 20 times that — $928 million. coloradosun.com/2025/04/24/d...

Gotta wonder when its audience will get tired of being lied to

More than 275,000 layoffs were announced last month, reaching a level not seen since the pandemic, according to a new report. The biggest culprit was one particular employer: the federal government cnn.it/42dIxcF

Since I’m a housing and homelessness guy I feel like I need to remind everyone that these tariffs are likely to have a cataclysmic effect on housing affordability and homelessness.

The price level increase from all 2025 tariffs so far will cost the average household around $3,800. But the burden will be extremely regressive, with lower-income households taking a bigger hit as a share of their income.

Y’all, this isn’t difficult. If your industry’s entire mission is truth, maybe don’t let the error machines write stuff for you

This really sucks.

“The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return.”

“What we’re seeing is a wholesale abandonment of consumer protection, leaving people to fend for themselves when credit card companies, banks, payday lenders and payment apps violate the law,” said Lauren Saunders of the National Consumer Law Center.

With Republicans in control of the White House and Congress, the private equity industry sees an opportunity to fuel its next golden era: the some $12 trillion in Americans' retirement savings

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that ATF's restrictions on the sale of ghost guns does NOT violate federal law, reversing the 5th Circuit. It is 7–2, with Gorsuch (!) writing the majority opinion. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The US Academy refused to offer a statement of support for a Palestinian director it had awarded an Oscar to while he was being illegally detained and tortured.

The Social Security Administration is engulfed in crisis — further undermining its ability to provide reliable and quick service to vulnerable customers, according to internal documents and more than two dozen current and former agency employees and officials, customers and others.

Local newspapers are dying not just because of the Internet. Investigative journalist Julie Reynolds @grrlreporter.bsky.social discovered that hedge fund Alden Global Capital is methodically liquidating them so 2 rich guys can get richer at the expense of our communities and democracy.

my husband has brought some important news back from reddit

The United States Institute of Peace is suing over DOGE’s “lawless assault” on the independent non-profit organization established by Congress. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: @andykroll.bsky.social got emails where a top IRS lawyer warned Trump officials that their firings were a “fraud” on the courts. They did them anyway. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

ICE detains Colorado immigrant rights activist whose efforts to avoid deportation by hiding in church made headlines

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

US immigration authorities defied a court order and deported a Rhode Island doctor employed by Brown Medicine on a valid visa www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

New story - The funding deal could bolster Trump/Musk's control over the budget, giving the executive branch broader latitude over funds “It is a huge move to give the White House and DOGE more power of the purse — they will have much more discretion" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...