Colorado Times Recorder: The fight to establish trust in government is never won, because with every step forward comes setbacks that shake people’s faith. These arrive in the form of an errant comment, new technology, an ill-conceived policy, a human mistake, lies, greed, tyrants, and more.

But Colorado’s legislative leaders showed last week they understand that transparency is their best weapon in the endless war against government skeptics and haters, a group that’s been growing in recent years.

The state legislature’s executive committee voted 5 – 1 on Wednesday to deploy video livestreaming “for all legislative committee meetings on a year-round basis, beginning in January 2026,” according to a report by Jeffrey A. Roberts of the Colorado Freedom of Information Committee. It removes Colorado from the notorious position of being the only state in the country not to provide such video.

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