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Hospitals are in the hot seat this time as the legislature seeks to lower health insurance prices.
Gov. Jared Polis left little doubt Thursday about his top priority in health care: lowering costs for consumers.
After four years of mostly modest policy changes necessitated by compromise, 2019 could be a very active year for health policy in Colorado.
Voters turned out in historic numbers in November to sweep Democrats into unified control of the state government, and a new General Assembly stacked with Democratic leaders began work today.
Jared Polis will command a Democratic majority that's quantitatively and qualitatively different from the experience of nearly every living Coloradan.
Did your Halloween involve more campaign commercials than candy bars? Election fatigue is real, and many Coloradans are ready for the stream of attack ads and flyers to end.
I live in Senate District 22, which features a showdown between Democrat Brittany Pettersen and Republican Tony Sanchez, and I’m pretty sure I’ve received enough mailers about their campaigns to wallpaper my house. A lot is at stake in the midterm election, so let’s get this show on the road!
Solutions to prescription drug prices eluded legislators in 2018.
The 2018 legislative session was surprisingly productive given split-party control, a looming election and various controversies about sexual harassment. We analyze what happened in CHI’s annual wrap-up report, Legislation in Review, published today.Legislators had no shortage of ideas. As a group, they introduced 721 bills — the most in nearly 15 years. And despite the politics, they voted in bipartisan fashion to pass 432 of them for a success rate of 60 percent.
The 2018 legislative session has come to a close. As we make sense of the last-minute action, which continued in both chambers all the way until 11:59 p.m. on Day 120, we’re thinking about how prescient (or completely wrong) we were with our predictions before Day One.
We’re no fortune tellers, but we think we did OK. Let’s take a look at five predictions from our January legislative forecast report, A Steep Climb to Common Ground:
CHI's Allie Morgan reports from the floor of Colorado's House of Representatives.
Bills related to climate change in the legislature this session haven't made it far.