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...

Help us out: Let us know what you'd like the D gov candidates to talk about. We're hosting 2 debates, and this is for the first one with the Ds. (Waiting to schedule the R debate until after GOP's state assembly.) *Please let us know through the form at the link! www.denverpost.com/2026/04/03/c...

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...

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...

Breaking: A federal judge has dismissed a Trump admin lawsuit against Denver, the state of Colorado, and various elected officials that challenged “sanctuary laws” that limited federal immigration cooperation. www.denverpost.com/2026/03/31/c...

SCOTUS sides 8-1 with a therapist who argued Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy violated the First Amendment: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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...

GOP President Donald Trump -- after endorsing #CO03 Rep. Jeff Hurd, and withdrawing the endorsement after his tariff vote and endorsing Hurd's primary challenger Hope Scheppelman -- met with Scheppelman and decides to re-endorse Hurd. #copolitics

ICE agents who left ‘death cards’ in immigrants’ cars removed from field duty, senior official testifies

In mid-January, a fight at a trustees meeting collapsed town of Hartman’s government. It was the culmination of years of infighting, but now the town’s water supply is near collapse, with no government empowered to fix it. From @samtabachnik.bsky.social and me: www.denverpost.com/2026/03/08/h...

Wild story from @sethklamann.bsky.social and @samtabachnik.bsky.social about a tiny town in remote southwest Colorado where the local government collapsed in acrimony and the state is scrambling to fix its water supply. “Yelling has been a factor in Hartman since God was a boy,” an ex-trustee says

Gov. Polis dropping some preemptive justification for his (very likely) intervention re: Tina Peters’ prison sentence:

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston signed an executive order today that requires Denver police to intervene and detain ICE agents if they see them using excessive force on demonstrators. It also bans federal agents from using city-owned property for operations // Story by @elliottwenzler.bsky.social

Colorado lawmakers concerned about rising gambling addiction and betting scandals in pro sports filed a bill Wednesday that would prohibit sports betting apps from offering prop bets on individual athletes’ performances // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social

Flawed analysis caused Colorado Medicaid program’s costs to surge and made it ‘attractive’ to fraud trib.al/kOhOASu

They just said 90-year-old Tenley Albright, who competed for the U.S. in Cortina in 1956, is in attendance. Here's what Albright's gold medal winning performance that year looked like.

🧵In a 3-part series, @denverpost.com's Elise Schmelzer explores the impact of climate change on the world-renowned ski industry that brings billions of dollars to Colorado

Another Colorado name has surfaced in the Epstein files. www.denverpost.com/2026/02/12/c...

Pres Trump says he did not invite CO Gov Polis to NGA dinner and working meeting at WH over Tina Peter. Polis was the Chair of the NGA 2024-2025. #copolitics

Last year, a Democratic lawmaker readying a congressional run voted against a bill limiting state cooperation with ICE. This morning, the candidate, Shannon Bird, put out a plan to “hold ICE accountable.” On the shifting dynamics of Democrats’ immigration politics: www.denverpost.com/2026/02/08/c...

President Donald Trump "personally blocked" Colorado Gov. Jared Polis from receiving an invite to a White House dinner for the nations governors, per NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u... #copolitics #coleg

The murder of the Washington Post is devastating for journalism and for Americans’ ability to chronicle and understand our own society. Another case study of what happens when invaluable civic institutions fall into the hands of fundamentally uncivic billionaires.

Let’s remember Lummis owns $$$ worth of BTC. Of freakin’ course she wants the government to buy.

“In America, we do not arrest journalists for doing their jobs. The Minnesota journalism community stands united in defense of press freedom and the essential role reporting plays in holding power to account.”

Update: In a new statement - sent 12 hrs after publication - Gov. Polis' spokeswoman said the office is "taking this very seriously and (is) demanding that HCPF ensure it never happens again." "We are taking actions like requesting future audits ... and are working to ensure full transparency."

A jury found former Colorado state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis guilty today of 3 counts of forgery and 1 charge of attempting to influence a public servant, all felonies that stemmed from allegations that the Longmont Democrat mistreated aides while in office // Story by @coltrain.bsky.social

In Colorado, ICE accused of leaving “death cards” in arrested immigrants’ abandoned cars. Via @sethklamann.bsky.social www.denverpost.com/2026/01/23/c...

Man shot by federal agents has died, police chief says www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Protests are happening right now in Hudson over federal plans to reopen a shuttered prison for ICE detention. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/21/h...

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

New: Tina Peters was involved in a brief scuffle with a fellow inmate Sunday night, and video shows Peter grabbing and shoving the other woman as the other inmate tries to move a cart out of the way of closet door: www.denverpost.com/2026/01/19/c...

Gov. Jared Polis unilaterally stalled a specialized prison program aimed at rehabilitating and releasing people who have served decades for crimes committed as juveniles and young adults, @denverpost.com's Shelly Bradbury reports. After 2023, Polis stopped signing off on the early releases.

so former Rep. Doug Lamborn converted his campaign account to a PAC recently. Promoting American Values filed its year-end report and $7,500 of $8,245 spent went to the company owned by Lamborn's wife. #copolitics

NEW: A family member confirms to 9NEWS that Renee Good, the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis today, was originally from the Colorado Springs area.

Kind of a wild story here. A mystery person took control of CU Boulder's student news outlet & turned it into AI slop. The students made a new website & lawyered up. But, it turns out, AI is a hard beast to fight. www.denverpost.com/2026/01/05/c... via @denverpost.com

Colorado requires many sex offenders to complete treatment before leaving prison. But a chronic shortage of providers means hundreds have languished past their initial parole date, while nearly 2,000 more - sex offenders under a different sentence - were released with no treatment: trib.al/LubH0ty

CFOIC's year in review: Coloradans fought for press freedom and freedom of information in 2025 in settings as small as the Eastern Plains town of Bennett and as big as the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

"Proceedings were delayed Friday morning after personnel at the detention center, which is privately run by the Geo Group, told reporters and supporters that they couldn’t enter the courtroom." // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

Colorado state Sen. Faith Winter was legally intoxicated and at fault for the November car accident in which she was killed, Arapahoe County investigators said Friday // Story by @sethklamann.bsky.social

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Democrat who represents Boulder, called the move to close NCAR “a deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration.” // Story by @laurenpenington.bsky.social

Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but the Justice Department attorney who just filed the lawsuit against Colorado seeking voter records apparently didn't understand the district court's relevant rules for doing so:

President Donald Trump claimed to grant imprisoned former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters a “full pardon” tonight — a power constitutional law experts say he cannot wield for a person convicted of state-level crimes // Story by @coltrain.bsky.social

This story shows the lengths to which a private-equity landlord will go to quash its tenants’ union efforts, organizers allege, using aggressive tactics honed by employers in the days before the National Labor Relations Act. www.denverpost.com/2025/12/11/c...

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

NEW: How allies of Sen. John Hickenlooper tried to ward off a progressive challenge in the primary by state Sen. Julie Gonzales. It didn't work. Read @sethklamann.bsky.social: www.denverpost.com/2025/12/09/c...

New: Colorado state senator launches progressive primary challenge of U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper www.denverpost.com/2025/12/08/c... via @sethklamann.bsky.social

Gov. Polis tweets favorably about a writer (Hanania) who spent the earlier part of the century writing for white supremacist websites and more recently contributed to Project 2025 and, separately, called for “more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people.”

Great reporting from @bentebirkeland.bsky.social on Faith Winter’s courage in standing up against sexual harassment at the #copolitics Capitol. RIP 😓

folks, please be sure to support actual journalists! there's so many amazing newsrooms doing amazing work right now.

Shoutout to @elliottwenzler.bsky.social for getting "raccooncidents" in the @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/12/02/d...