Hyoung Chang

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Photojournalist at The Denver Post

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Colorado sets next year’s K-12 education funding at more than $10 billion

1 week ago | bradenton.com | Hyoung Chang

DENVER - Colorado will spend more than $10 billion on K-12 public schools during the 2025-26 fiscal year after Gov. Jared Polis signed the state's new School Finance Act. Individual school districts will receive the same or more money than they did this year.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs law prohibiting repeated auto thieves from having guns

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Hyoung Chang

DENVER - Coloradans who have been repeatedly convicted of auto theft will now be prohibited from possessing a gun under new regulations signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis on Monday. House Bill 1171 adds first-degree motor vehicle theft to the state's list of felony offenses that carry with them a loss of firearm rights. To be charged with first-degree auto theft, a person must have already been twice convicted of vehicle theft or unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
As Colorado wildfires worsen, Sen. John Hickenlooper’s bill aims to reduce risks. But it worries some environmentalists

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Hyoung Chang

DENVER - A wildfire prevention bill championed by western U.S. senators - including Colorado's John Hickenlooper - aims to fast-track some logging projects to reduce fire risk. But several environmental groups say the bill would sideline the public and skirt environmental protection laws. Wildfires in Colorado are growing larger and spreading faster as climate change-fueled drought desiccates the landscape and longer fire seasons create more opportunity for destructive blazes.
Colorado is part of 20 lawsuits (and counting) against Trump. Here’s what AG Phil Weiser says is behind the strategy

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Hyoung Chang

Limitations on transgender health care. Threats to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds. The tumultuous whipsaw of on-again, off-again tariffs. Since President Donald Trump returned to office in January and unfurled a flurry of executive orders and directives, Colorado has joined with blue-state allies to file 20 lawsuits challenging those and other actions - a rate of more than one suit per week.
PHOTOS: 2025 Colorado state track and field championships

2 weeks ago | denverpost.com | Andy Cross |Hyoung Chang

Kent Denver's Solomon Morrell celebrates after winning the 3A 100-meter hurdles at the Track and Field State Championships at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood, Colorado, on Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)Northfield’s Ayuub Hassan, right, passes Mountain Vista’s Ben Anderson at the finish line to win the Class 5A boys 4x800 meter relay in the CHSAA state track and field championships at Jeffco Stadium in Lakewood, Colorado, on Thursday, May 15, 2025.
Legal advocate for workers, renters announces run for Colorado attorney general

3 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Hyoung Chang

DENVER - The head of a nonprofit law firm announced his candidacy for Colorado attorney general on Tuesday, promising to police "corporate abuse" and to support worker and consumer protections. For David Seligman, that focus would be a continuation of what he called his "life's work." A Harvard Law grad, Seligman since 2018 has led the Denver-based nonprofit Towards Justice, which has backed litigation and legislation to support ride-hailing app drivers, renters, migrant workers and meatpackers.
Local governments in Colorado demanding more accountability from oil and gas

3 weeks ago | tri-cityherald.com | Hyoung Chang

Gasoline storage facility at Holly Energy Partners Sinclair terminal in Henderson, Colorado, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post/TNS) Hyoung Chang TNS When the Denver City Council rejected a $25 million contract with Suncor Energy last week, it was just the latest example in the past year of local governments in Colorado pushing back against the oil and gas industry.
In cash-strapped Colorado, lawmakers tap an unorthodox pot of money for priorities. But is it too risky?

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Hyoung Chang

DENVER - Facing a $1.2 billion budget gap this year, Colorado lawmakers turned to a source of money they had mostly ignored for the past several years to pay for some priorities: the unclaimed property trust fund. The legislature looks poised to tap the fund for two bills in the waning days of the legislative session, even as critics - chief among them Treasurer Dave Young - argue against drawing from a fund made up of lost money, not taxes, to cover the cost of government services.
Colorado House passes immigrant protection bill amid new Trump lawsuit against state

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Hyoung Chang

A day after the Trump administration sued Denver and Colorado officials to invalidate restrictions on cooperation with immigration enforcement, Democratic lawmakers gave final approval Saturday to a bill that would expand the state's laws. As the end of the 2025 legislation approaches, the state House's 42-21 party-line vote approving Senate Bill 276 moved it one step away from Gov. Jared Polis' desk and - if he signs it - passage into law.
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1 month ago | azdailysun.com | Hyoung Chang

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