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Colorado Politics writers and editors took stock off the 116-day legislative session to cast a value on the losses and gains of legislators, issues, partisan viewpoints and more.
If there’s anything we’ve learned during Jared Polis’ tenure as governor, it’s that whenever progressive Democrats in the Legislature square off with Polis — which happens more often than you’d
KC Becker has to be feeling good about the Colorado she’s helped create these days. You might or might not feel the same way. Nobody, though, can say the former House speaker from Boulder hasn’t delivered on what she went to Denver to do, when she was elected to the legislature in 2012. Colorado is harvesting the fruit of her political labor on climate change at the moment, and it merits recognition. Politics has a short memory. How we got here also might give us a sense of where we’re going. I’ll start at the beginning. The real beginning. When she was a teenager, Becker came west to...