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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 20h

Colorado law banning conversion therapy for gay, transgender minors scrutinized before U.S. Supreme Court coloradosun.com/2025/10/07/s... #copolitics #coleg

Colorado law banning conversion therapy for gay, transgender minors scrutinized before U.S. Supreme Court

A Colorado law banning so-called conversion therapy to “cure” minors of being gay or transgender was scrutinized Tuesday in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, which will decide whether banning t...

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: These 14 Colorado cities aren’t complying with state housing laws. It could cost them $280M in grants. coloradosun.com/2025/10/07/c... #copolitics #coleg

These 14 Colorado cities aren’t complying with state housing laws. It could cost them $280M in grants.

Some of the cities that aren’t in compliance filed a lawsuit against the Polis administration earlier this year over its threat to withhold grant funding if they didn’t comply with the affordable hous...

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 1d

Colorado just became the first state to cap the price of a prescription drug. What comes next is uncertain. coloradosun.com/2025/10/07/p... #copolitics #coleg

Colorado just became the first state to cap the price of a prescription drug. What comes next is uncertain.

The Colorado Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board imposed a first-in-the-nation price cap on the drug Enbrel, starting in 2017.

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 2d

ICE ad blitz in Denver, other cities aims to lure local law enforcement officers to join Trump’s mass deportation efforts coloradosun.com/2025/10/06/i... #copolitics

ICE ad blitz in Denver, other cities aims to lure local law enforcement officers to join Trump's mass deportation efforts

The campaign — airing in more than a dozen cities, including Chicago, Seattle and Atlanta — is part of ICE’s $30 billion initiative to hire 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of the year

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 2d

Archeologists find that people sent to Camp Amache during WWII sought respite in the Arkansas River coloradosun.com/2025/10/06/a...

Archeologists find that people sent to Camp Amache during WWII sought respite in the Arkansas River

The federal government kept detailed records of every crop in Amache’s agricultural program, but overlooked the ways incarcerees cultivated personal gardens

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 6d

From Aspen --> Pitkin County sheriff says he remains confident that Hunter S. Thompson died by suicide coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/h...

Pitkin County sheriff says he remains confident that Hunter S. Thompson died by suicide

Sheriff Michael Buglione said the case review was prompted by “things (Anita Thompson) has been hearing from friends and possible relatives”

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 7d

John Hickenlooper on what it would take to get his vote to end the federal government’s shutdown coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/j... #copolitics

John Hickenlooper on what it would take to get his vote to end the federal government’s shutdown

The Colorado Democrat estimates the shutdown will last at least a week or two

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 8d

ICYMI: The Colorado Secretary of State's Office rejected a GOP vacancy committee's appointment of Ava Flanell to the legislature after finding that the committee didn't follow state law in making the pick: coloradosun.com/2025/09/29/a... #copolitics #coleg

Colorado election officials reject GOP vacancy committee’s pick for state legislature, saying law wasn’t followed

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office told the GOP vacancy committee in House District 14 that its members did not get 10 days of notice ahead of making their appointment as is required by state la...

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 8d

This means firearms instructor and influencer Ava Flanell won't be a state representative — at least not quite yet #copolitics #coleg

Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: Colorado election officials reject GOP vacancy committee’s pick for state legislature, saying law wasn’t followed coloradosun.com/2025/09/29/a... #copolitics #coleg

Colorado election officials reject GOP vacancy committee’s pick for state legislature, saying law wasn’t followed

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office told the GOP vacancy committee in House District 14 that its members did not get 10 days of notice ahead of making their appointment as is required by state la...

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: Colorado election officials reject GOP vacancy committee’s pick for state legislature, saying law wasn’t followed coloradosun.com/2025/09/29/a... #copolitics #coleg

Colorado election officials reject GOP vacancy committee’s pick for state legislature, saying law wasn’t followed

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office told the GOP vacancy committee in House District 14 that its members did not get 10 days of notice ahead of making their appointment as is required by state la...

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 9d

In a shift, Colorado PERA looks at ways to alleviate the pain of pension reform coloradosun.com/2025/09/29/c... #copolitics #coleg

In a shift, Colorado PERA looks at ways to alleviate the pain of pension reform

State pension officials plan to ask lawmakers to relax some provisions of Senate Bill 200 in order to provide financial relief to PERA's members.

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 13d

Xcel Energy settling Marshall fire lawsuit for $640 million while admitting no fault coloradosun.com/2025/09/24/x...

Xcel Energy settling Marshall fire lawsuit for $640 million while admitting no fault

Xcel Energy and other defendants said Wednesday they are settling a massive lawsuit from victims of the 2021 Marshall fire just ahead of a major trial, with Xcel saying it will pay $640 million withou...

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 14d

Colorado lawmakers outlawed some apartment fees. Now small businesses want protections, too. coloradosun.com/2025/09/22/c... #copolitics #coleg

Colorado lawmakers outlawed some apartment fees. Now small businesses want protections, too.

The Colorado legislature banned CAM fees in residential leases starting Jan. 1.

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 15d

Purplish is in 2nd place Listener’s Choice #signalawards.

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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 15d

The Colorado legislature just tackled two budget crises. Another is on the horizon. coloradosun.com/2025/09/22/c... #copolitics #coleg

The Colorado legislature just tackled two budget crises. Another is on the horizon.

Providing the same level of government programs and services next fiscal year is predicted to cost $850 million more than the legislature will have available to spend

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 18d

Republican state Rep. Jarvis Caldwell of Colorado Springs, who is in his first year at the Capitol, is elected House minority leader by the chamber's GOP caucus. #copolitics #coleg

Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 23d

NEW: Top Republican in Colorado House resigns in wake of special session clash with Democrats coloradosun.com/2025/09/15/r... #copolitics #coleg

Top Republican in Colorado House resigns in wake of special session clash with Democrats

House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, a Colorado Springs Republican, said her kids “need their mom right now — and I need to keep them safe”

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 20d

Matthew Silverstone, an 18-year-old victim in last week's Evergreen High School shooting, is still “fighting for his life,” his family says.

“It’s going to be a long road. We are coming to grips with what could be a lifelong recovery.”

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Matthew Silverstone, victim in Evergreen High School shooting, still “fighting for his life,” family says

Cards sent to Silverstone, who turned 18 the day before he was shot, credit the teen with making sure others made it to safety

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 20d

Haven't heard back yet from Rep. Crank's office on what those new jobs and investments might be, but here's his Space Command update today #copolitics

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 21d

CU Regent Wanda James launches primary bid challenging Colorado’s longest-serving congresswoman coloradosun.com/2025/09/17/w... #copolitics

CU Regent Wanda James launches primary bid challenging Colorado’s longest-serving congresswoman

Colorado's 1st Congressional District has been represented by Democrat Diana DeGette for 30 years

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 21d

9 minutes: How the shooting at Evergreen High School unfolded, moment by moment coloradosun.com/2025/09/17/h...

9 minutes: How the shooting at Evergreen High School unfolded, moment by moment

Desmond Holly critically wounded two students as he fired about 20 rounds inside and outside the school. Here's how. ithappened

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 21d

It looks like CU Regent Wanda James is going to primary Diana DeGette

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 21d

Former president of the Colorado Senate launches bid to become next state treasurer coloradosun.com/2025/09/16/k... #copolitics #coleg

Former president of the Colorado Senate launches bid to become next state treasurer

Fremont County Commissioner Kevin Grantham, a Republican, was president of the Colorado Senate in 2017 and 2018

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 22d

Mother and 7-year-old son arrested by ICE in Salida return to Colorado after nearly a month in immigration detention in Texas coloradosun.com/2025/09/16/s... #copolitics

Mother and 7-year-old son from Salida return to Colorado after nearly a month in ICE detention in Texas

Carolina Suarez Estrada and her 7-year-old son spent nearly a month in a South Texas family detention center

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 22d

Colorado’s Republican U.S. representatives decline to fight Trump on Space Command, even as they risk voter fallout coloradosun.com/2025/09/16/s... #copolitics

Colorado’s Republican U.S. representatives decline to fight Trump on Space Command, even as they risk voter fallout

If they cross Trump, Colorado’s Republican members of Congress risk political consequences — lost endorsements, primary challengers, fewer campaign donations — but they also could put future federal p...

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 22d

Adult zebra mussels found in Colorado River, which is now designated “infested” coloradosun.com/2025/09/15/a... via @coloradosun.com

Adult zebra mussels found in Colorado River, now designated “infested”

Latest sampling by Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirms the voracious invasive mussels have an established presence in the Colorado River.

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