Hyoung Chang

1 week 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.

1 week 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.

2 weeks ago | azdailysun.com | Hyoung Chang

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2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Hyoung Chang

LAKEWOOD, Colo. - Water gurgled softly through a beaver dam on Bear Creek near Morrison as Katie Gill reflected on a six-year campaign to save her happy place in Bear Creek Lake Park from destruction. Cottonwoods towered over the intricately constructed four-foot-high dam. Mallard ducks paddled in formation on the pond it created upstream.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Hyoung Chang

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis-a potential candidate for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination-signed sweeping new gun legislation earlier this month, creating a permit-to-purchase scheme that could cover most modern semiautomatic firearms. While Polis may limit the impact to AR-15s and similar firearms, the measure still places significant new restrictions on some of the most popular guns in America.