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A community group in Northern Colorado is raising concerns about a bill advancing in Congress that would require general aviation airports to keep selling leaded fuel indefinitely.

Six months after lawmakers criticized a lack of progress, money is going out the door and some of the office’s harshest critics say they’re pleased with the progress being made around the state.

The court case is poised to settle a monthslong debate between transparency advocates who say the private bill ranking survey illegally shuts the public out of the decision making process, and lawmakers who say it is a helpful data point as they debate dozens of bills competing against each other for funding.

E-bikes cut air pollution, reduce traffic and haul hundreds of pounds of cargo. And as more riders hit the streets, there’s a growing push to build bike lanes and redesign roads to keep riders safe.

Equipped with artificial intelligence and heat sensors, the cameras are steadily replacing an older warning system used in wildfire-prone areas that relied on humans scanning the horizon from watch towers.

Democratic leaders at the Capitol claim the results of an annual secret survey known as 'quadratic voting' among lawmakers are not public documents.

KUNC investigative reporter Scott Franz joins Morning Edition host Dylan Simard to dig deeper into the use of quadratic voting at the Capitol.

Transparency advocates say even though the outcome of the secret ballot process is being made public for the first time, the bill-ranking system still runs afoul of the open meetings law and shuts the public out of a process that lawmakers use to help decide how to spend their tax dollars.

When Colorado residents go to the state Capitol this month to lobby for the bills they care most about, many will never know their bill might face a hidden obstacle.

Sheriffs are some of Colorado’s most powerful local elected leaders. They are tasked with enforcing a multitude of laws, running jails and carrying out evictions. But how closely they follow the law sometimes hinges on other factors — like their own politics or those of the community they serve.