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Your daily Colorado politics update for Monday, April 13
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Monday, April 13, 2026

Local leaders consider taking battle over noise, pollution at Jeffco airport to Colorado Supreme Court

“All of these flights taking off are going right over my house,” Greg Tan said. “If I’m working from home, I have to put on noise-cancelling headphones or a white noise machine.”

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Immigrants detained in Colorado by ICE’s ‘deportation machine’ reach for once-rare legal lever

In his first 19 years as a lawyer, Denver immigration attorney Hans Meyer said he’d filed six habeas cases. In the past six months, his firm filed 60.

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Conservative pastor Rep. Scott Bottoms wins top billing for governor on Colorado Republican primary ballot

Bottoms won top-billing on the Republican primary ballot at the party’s statewide convention Saturday night, beating out fellow pastor and political newcomer Victor Marx.

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Lost sleep for Colorado lawmakers as they reckon with budget cuts for disabled people, immigrant children

“This is a lot to take in,” Rep. Emily Sirota, the chair of the budget committee, told her fellow Democrats. “These are a lot of very, very painful cuts we didn’t want to have to make.”

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A closer look at Colorado’s proposed budget cuts, from a dental fund to financial aid to health provider fees

Here is a sampling of some of the programs that are either on the chopping block or slated to be pared back in Colorado’s proposed budget that’s under consideration by lawmakers.

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Vail retreat rift expands, lots on the budget chopping block and more from the Colorado legislature this week

A Denver progressive activist is suing two Democratic state lawmakers and the invite-only caucus they lead, alleging they violated the Colorado Open Records Act.

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Two Colorado lawmakers face open-records lawsuit as rift over Vail retreat expands