Colorado Springs moves to dissolve its police oversight commission
Many community members who support a police-accountability force also supported the commission’s dissolution. At a city council meeting, LETAC participants said that they had no authority over the Colorado Springs Police Department and their input was often ignored ...
Colorado justices weigh constitutionality of unique disclosure requirement for ballot measures
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court considered whether a unique feature of the state’s campaign finance system categorically violates the First Amendment by requiring the disclosure of a ballot measure committee’s legal representative on advertisements ...
The future of 9News is up in the air, but younger viewers may have already moved on from TV news
Local TV news has been a bright spot in terms of trust, though. In fact, 74% of Americans said they had “a lot of” or “some” trust in local news organizations, with 85% saying their local news outlets were at least somewhat important to their community, Pew reported ...
Douglas County seeks state Supreme Court review in open meeting case
The Douglas County Board of Commissioners intends to petition the Colorado Supreme Court to review a recent court decision that found the board had violated the Colorado Open Meeting Law ...
Two Colorado lawmakers face open-records lawsuit as rift over Vail retreat expands
A Denver progressive activist is suing two Democratic state lawmakers and the invite-only caucus they lead, alleging they violated the Colorado Open Records Act ...
Federal Judge extends temporary restraining order slowing Tegna-Nexstar merger another week
A federal judge in California extended a temporary restraining order that keeps Nexstar Media group separate from Tegna Inc. for another week, as he weighs a possible injunction that would keep the two companies apart while an antitrust lawsuit proceeds ...
New rules for private judges in Colorado include discipline oversight, campaign contributions
The Colorado Supreme Court recently determined the state’s private judges — retired jurists appointed to oversee civil cases that rarely get public scrutiny — can now make political contributions freely and without reserve, overruling a prohibition that had been in place for decades ...
Noonan: The danger of when government goes rogue
Fortunately, at the Colorado county level, when county commissioners knowingly and intentionally violate state statute, the courts can intervene, even if it takes time and appeals ...
Residents in one Colorado city want transparency, answers after police and fire chiefs were fired
Four days after the Federal Heights police and fire chiefs were seemingly terminated from their positions, community members are speaking out against what they say has been a long history of retaliation against first responders in the community ...
‘A Statement That Probably Needed to Be Made’
A press release from the administration that called NPR’s coverage “trash” was one of a few rhetorical moves cited by Moss in his ruling that he said left “no doubt” that the funding-pull was not simply viewpoint discrimination toward public media or a reaction to stations’ failure to “live up to some yet-to-be-attained platonic ideal of ‘unbiased’ journalism.” ...
