RTD would pay $156 million, plus annual operating expenses of $10 million to $12 million, under a deal that would allow Front Range Passenger Rail “starter service” — linking Denver, Boulder, Longmont, Loveland and Fort Collins — to begin by January 2029, state officials announced today

The sharply conservative Supreme Court featuring three appointees from President Trump is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an analysis shows.

By declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional, the Justice Department is effectively claiming that the presidency has private ownership over the American story. It doesn't. @laurenleharper.bsky.social latest for @theintercept.com on why the DOJ's history killer memo can't stand:

A big police transparency ruling: Colorado’s Law Enforcement Integrity Act does not permit agencies to charge fees as a condition of releasing body-worn camera footage depicting possible misconduct by police officers, the CO Court of Appeals decided. coloradofoic.org/court-of-app...

Buckle up for a wild one. April Morganroth was fired from a Colorado newspaper for making up quotes. Then she changed her name, moved states, and got back in the journalism game. Now she's facing decades in prison. www.denverpost.com/2026/04/08/a...

New: A young Democrat stunned Rep. Diana DeGette in a party vote. Does Melat Kiros have a real shot in the primary? “This has nothing to do with me and everything to do with the fact that Denver Democrats want a fighter,” she tells @elliottwenzler.bsky.social. www.denverpost.com/2026/04/09/m...

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet backed out of a weekend gubernatorial forum hosted by Colorado Muslims because he didn’t want to address questions about the war in the Gaza Strip, the event’s organizers said // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

It's official: This is Colorado's lowest peak snowpack on record. Statewide snowpack is just 24% of average, by far our lowest peak snowpack in 38 years of official records. April 8 = Colorado's peak average statewide snowpack date (a bit later north, earlier south). #COwx

Who are the most influential — or notorious — Coloradans of the last 150 years? You can nominate up to 10 people. www.denverpost.com/2026/04/08/m... by @bybethrankin.bsky.social

Journalism ethics experts tell @samtabachnik.bsky.social they'd never heard of a reporter getting caught fabricating quotes or inventing sources, then just changing their name in order to keep practicing the trade elsewhere. “It’s safe to say this is historically unprecedented in the modern era.”

Per new legal filings, Polis’ office suggests they want to comply with this latest ICE subpoena — but the state labor department has told ICE to come back with a grand jury subpoena. Amid the confusion, a Denver just overseeing a prior lawsuit against Polis wants everybody in court later this month.

"The growing Aadam Jacobs Collection is an internet treasure trove for music lovers, especially for fans of indie and punk rock during the 1980s through the early 2000s, when the scene blossomed and became mainstream"

may I offer you some PJ Harvey in this trying time? youtu.be/jKLiU7Hq93w?...

Earthset, courtesy of Artemis. Story by @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4bVvp1R

During President Donald Trump’s first year back in office, 4,750 people without legal status were arrested by federal immigration authorities in Colorado, new data shows, reflecting a near-quadrupling of the prior year’s arrest rate, @sethklamann.bsky.social reports

Every single paragraph from this story contains worse news than the one that preceded it. apnews.com/article/news...

Colorado legislators are planning to cut a teacher recruitment program that promised to pay 2 years of a student’s college tuition on their path to becoming educators, leaving soon-to-be-graduating high school seniors in a lurch. "Everything is blown up," a parent tells @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social

The Las Vegas Review-Journal stops printing the rival Sun as the last remaining joint operating agreement goes south. #journalism apnews.com/article/las-...

What does drought look like? @denverpost.com photographer RJ Sangosti shows how this year's record-low snowpack is hitting southwestern Colorado

I look back at All the President’s Men, released on this day 50 years ago. During production, screenwriter William Goldman said, “Expectations are so high on this movie that if the film is only good, it won’t be good enough.” If only he was here to see how powerful it still is: More @ Esquire…

Colorado is going to continue facing budget struggles as long as voters want both expanded services and limited spending under TABOR, said Bethany Pray of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy: “We have a red-state budget and we have blue-state ideals, and that doesn’t work very well"

The 3-week strike by members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 marked the first walkout at a U.S. meatpacking plant in four decades and the first-ever walkout at JBS's Greeley plant. Workers will return to their jobs starting Tuesday.

This album will rearrange your brain. Even weirder that it came out on SST records in 1987. The darkest side of paisley.

A Colorado community activist was convicted last week of doxxing a Denver police commander in a first-of-its-kind case that has fueled debate about whether the state’s online privacy laws violate the First Amendment's free speech rights

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

Colorado’s proposed ban on allowing SNAP food assistance to pay for soft drinks is on hold while a lawsuit against the federal government plays out, but Gov. Jared Polis is planning an executive order to limit state soda and alcohol purchases

Okay. This is a much better quality from NASA's site of Earth. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Fred Brown was an institution at the @denverpost.com, working at the paper from 1963 to 2002. He covered Colorado politics for decades as a reporter, chief of the paper’s Capitol Bureau, political editor and, finally, as a columnist. He died Wednesday. // Obit by @elliottwenzler.bsky.social

“DPS appears to have exhibited a shocking disregard for the risk (the student) posed to an entire school full of children, faculty and staff — as well as to himself,” U.S. District Judge Gordon Gallagher wrote in a ruling related to a lawsuit brought over the 2023 shooting at East High School

NEW: The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge. The court upheld her conviction.

Gov. Polis & state officials are weighing whether to comply with a new ICE subpoena as he also tries to end a lawsuit that stopped him from complying with a similar request + as he implements a policy blocking subpoena discussions from ever being released: www.denverpost.com/2026/04/02/j...

Not just me, apparently

Artemis II lifts off

"Fort Collins will host the Colorado-based operational service center, in addition to playing a major Forest Service research role. Instead of maintaining multiple dispersed research stations with their own leadership, the agency will anchor its research at a single location in Fort Collins."

New: In a win for the GOP, a federal judge rules that Colorado makes it too hard to opt out of the state’s semi-open primary system. The ruling doesn’t set a new threshold, but it’s a boost to conservatives who want to keep unaffiliated voters from their primaries. www.denverpost.com/2026/04/01/j...

Workers at Alamo Drafthouse in Sloan’s Lake in Denver to strike over QR code rollout: www.denverpost.com/2026/04/01/a... by @jessalvg.bsky.social

At least there's a new song by @theveldt.bsky.social (from their recent tour-only EP).

A lawsuit alleges the Pueblo 70 school board "violated Colorado’s open meetings law ... by not clearly describing agenda items related to Riverstone Academy, an elementary school that backers have called Colorado’s 'first public Christian school.'"

"Hydrologist Maureen Gutsch trudged through the mud and slush to confirm a grim picture: Colorado just had its worst snowpack since statewide record keeping began in 1941."

Very much looking forward to Season 3 taking place beneath DIA and seeing how the Lizard People figure in.

Media attorney and CFOIC president Steve Zansberg represented Colorado Public Radio, Aspen Public Radio and KSUT Public Radio in this lawsuit.

“The Constitution is very clear — the president has no power over elections in the states,” said David Becker, a former Justice Department lawyer who leads the Center for Election Innovation and Research. “This will be blocked as soon as lawyers can get to the courthouse.”

A federal judge today dismissed the Trump administration’s attempt to overturn “sanctuary” laws enacted in Denver and across Colorado that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

The 8-1 majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues Colorado's law banning talk therapy violates the First Amendment. The justices agreed the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court to decide if it meets a legal standard that few laws pass

Kim Bimestefer, head of the agency that oversees Colorado Medicaid, is resigning, days after lawmakers told Gov. Jared Polis’ staff that they planned to hold a vote of no confidence in her and call for her removal. Twenty-eight of the Senate’s 35 members signed on. www.denverpost.com/2026/03/30/c...

Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...

Five years after The Colorado Sun and 9NEWS sued the state Department of Human Services, the Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ordered the agency to disclose to the news organizations aggregate child-abuse hotline statistics from three residential care facilities.

Taking care of children is “the work behind the work,” Manahan said — ”essential infrastructure to how society functions.”

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order in two lawsuits filed against the Nexstar-TEGNA merger, requiring both broadcasters to be operated as separate companies for now.