Denver Post: Politics

More than a half century after the last passenger disembarked Car No. 10 of the Yampa Valley Mail train, an effort to revive passenger rail from Colorado’s capital city to the state’s northwest corner is taking shape.

By DAVID A. LIEB
Artificial intelligence. Abortion. Guns. Marijuana. Minimum wages.
Name a hot topic, and chances are good there’s a new law about it taking effect in 2025 in one state or another.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Colorado lawmakers are set to introduce a pair of bills in the next legislative session that would bar municipal courts from imposing more severe sentences than state courts for the same crimes, as well as limit city courts from criminalizing missed hearings. 

By FARNOUSH AMIRI and LISA MASCARO, Associated press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of “regularly” paying for sex, including with a 17-year-old girl, and purchasing and using illicit drugs all while the Florida Republican was a member of Congress.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

With the Denver Broncos playing well this season, the grimmest show in Colorado can be found in a small room near the state Capitol.

The Denver District Attorney’s Office will not file criminal charges related to the inadvertent release of some voting system passwords by the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office, prosecutors announced Friday.

Colorado’s projected budget hole may not be quite as deep as originally projected, but economic forecasters warned Thursday that the state was still in for a difficult year.

The Denver City Council’s members will join elected leaders in neighboring Lakewood early next year in deciding if they want to significantly clamp down on where new gas stations can be built within the borders of their respective cities.

One of President-elect Donald Trump ‘s most popular talking points during his campaign centered on the future of transgender athletes.
Trump revisited the topic multiple times in the months and weeks before the election, suggesting at his rallies that one of the goals of his second term would be to “keep men out of women’s sports.” Millions were spent on advertising that turned something that affects a tiny minority of competitors into a wedge issue.

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse leads three other Colorado Democrats in an early poll of potential candidates for the party’s 2026 gubernatorial primary that shows the largest slice of respondents are still undecided.