Thousands of Colorado educators followed the lead of states like West Virginia, Oklahoma and Arizona in demanding that state legislatures stop carving up public education and start putting money back into its public schools. Colorado legislators have cut $6.67 billion out of the state education budget since the Great Recession. And although the economy has bounced back, the practice of cutting education dollars continues. So what can protesters actually do to keep the #RedforEd momentum going?

Brad Levin thought he had the ballot petition in the bag. He collected 16,000 signatures, far more than the 10,500 signature requirement to get on the statewide ballot. He was wrong. The state threw out 7,000 of his signatures. Some were thrown out over technicalities. Others were thrown out because the signatures were of unaffiliated voters, who are not legally locked out of the candidate petition process. Now, the Democratic candidate for attorney general is suing to get his signatures back.

The anti-queer agenda under the guise of religious liberty is still rampant at the Capitol.

On April 19, a Senate committee approved several amendments to civil rights commission’s composition and procedures.

Colorado is consistently ranked as one of the most productive state legislatures in the country,

What do a CSU journalism student, a documentary filmmaker and a lawyer all have in common? They’ve been sued by Denver-based Extraction Oil and Gas over an anti-fracking protest in Greeley next door to Bella Romero Academy, a school that serves a predominantly low-income and minority community.

In the wake of #MeToo and Time’s Up, statehouses around the country are grappling with how to hold legislators accountable for sexual harassment in an environment where there isn’t a traditional boss. The most severe form of punishment is expulsion, the equivalent of being fired, but that is rarely ever wielded. This year, Colorado expelled a House Democrat, the first time a state legislator was expelled in more than 100 years. Other statehouses have also been aggressive in the fight to eradicate sexual harassment. But in true Colorado fashion, the Centennial State is leading the country in creating a safe, harassment-free environment at the Capitol. That’s if legislators can agree on the fix.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission was sued almost four years ago by a group of teenagers to force the organization to put health and safety first. That case made it all the way to the state’s highest court. Now, the state is arguing that it does not have to put public health and safety before the interests of the oil and gas industry, rather it should just “balance” the interests of the public and the industry.

A report outlines how to reboot the culture under the Golden Dome and, to use a line from Donald Trump himself, “drain the swamp” of sexual harassment and professional misconduct. Although legislators pushing for change had hoped to see new policies implemented before the end of this legislative session, that may not be feasible. Party leaders are pushing for more time to dig deep and craft thoughtful policies through the summer after the legislative session comes to an end.

Colorado is one of only fourteen states in the country that has earned top marks for LGBT equality, according to the Transgender Law Center, based on its robust non-discrimination laws and lack of religious exemptions. That’s a far cry from where it was 26 years ago, when it gained national notoriety as the “Hate State” after voters passed Amendment 2 in 1992.

Democrats in the Senate took a page out of the lower chamber’s playbook when they voted to expel Senator Randy Baumgardner last night over sexual harassment allegations that an outside investigator found was “more likely than not” to be credible. And while ex-Representative Steve Lebsock did get the boot last month, Baumgardner survived his expulsion vote. But he is still under investigation for two other complaints.

Denver Meadows Mobile Home & RV Park residents in Aurora have been fighting to save their community from redevelopment for two years. This week, they successfully lobbied Aurora City Council to halt any redevelopment for the next ten months in an attempt to pressure their landlord to sell the park to the community, not a developer. But the fight isn’t over for residents just yet.

Nearly two months since Republicans at the Capitol voted to defund the state’s civil rights agency, they are taking another jab at the LGBTQ community with a bill that would give religious institutions and individuals with “moral convictions” and “sincerely held religious beliefs” the ability to deny a wide range of services, including everything from denying transgender people access to restrooms corresponding with their gender identity, denying marriage-related services to same-sex couple to the denial of foster care and adoption services by religious organizations.