These freedoms exist precisely to protect the nation’s dissenters, contrarians and gadflies, just like Kirk, who irritate those in power. The moment government begins criminalizing what is said, we cease to be a free republic ...

“A “daisy chain” happens when public officials deliberately sidestep open meeting laws by discussing public matters one-on-one or in small groups. The goal is to circumvent the threshold for a quorum — the minimum number of members required for a public body, like a school board, to legally conduct business,” Brambila wrote ...

Colorado’s U.S. District Court is considering prohibiting people from bringing “smart glasses” that could be used as recording devices into the courthouse ...

The Denver school board may have run afoul of Colorado’s open meetings law by channeling discussions about Superintendent Alex Marrero’s contract extension through the district’s attorney and a secret, two-member committee, according to experts ...

Approximately 44% of Colorado’s eligible households with subpar or no internet access are primed to get satellite broadband service from a company that doesn’t offer it yet: Amazon ...

Elected officials in Dolores highlighted a larger-than-usual crowd at a regular Board of Trustees meeting and applauded public participation, yet inexplicably did not ensure recording was active during the meeting’s opening public comment portion ...

Sadly, the Denver School board campaigns are far less democratic than any other Denver elections with two “dark money” groups providing more than 70% of the funding. We are talking more than $1 million from these two groups in 2023, and expect the number to be even higher this fall ...

As the public awaits the body camera footage and investigation details of the officer-involved shooting of a Black man, there has been a public outcry from the community about how the police department handled the initial attempts at transparency ...

Cordova, like many other First Amendment auditors, runs monetized YouTube channels — his have more than 250,000 subscribers — where he shares videos in which he attempts to film people in public places, public officials and police officers ...

The Limon Leader, a weekly newspaper that has long served Lincoln County and a cluster of towns on the Eastern Plains, announced that it will close by the end of the year, and possibly sooner, leaving yet another rural news void in Colorado ...