State Sen. Jeff Bridges, the chair of the powerful Joint Budget Committee, will run for Colorado treasurer in 2026, he said ...

The Joint Budget Committee last week finalized its budget package without deciding what to do about Prop. 130, the voter-approved requirement that the state spend $350 million to support law enforceme ...

We have just 24 days until the end of session, and these things are moving fast at the Capitol. Gov. Polis signed my first ...

After months of crunching numbers and making cuts, Colorado state lawmakers have a balanced budget.The Joint Budget Committee, made up of four democrats and two republicans, voted unanimously on a ...

Colorado budget writers have finalized the state government’s proposed spending plan — and they’ve done so without ...

The Colorado state government's $43.9 billion spending plan and its accompanying measures are now headed back to the ...

In a year when things are fiscally tight, Colorado lawmakers have passed the state budget, overcoming a projected shortfall ...

Bridges has been in the state Senate since 2019 when he was chosen via vacancy committee to replace a state Senator who ...

The state collects hundreds of millions of dollars a year from legal cannabis sales, but it’s really just a drop in the ...

Colorado’s state budget is on an unsustainable path. Unlike the federal government, the state is constitutionally mandated to produce a balanced spending plan each year. That red flag ...

More than two dozen health care organizations are urging Colorado lawmakers debating the budget to spare a program that they ...