Bente Birkeland
Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.
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A request from the Trump administration to transfer former Republican Mesa County clerk Tina Peters from state to federal custody is opposed by state officials. -
In statehouses across the country, the political playing field is being redrawn, as states wade into the murky waters of midcycle redistricting. -
The state is awarding close to $1 million in grants to seven communities to bolster the development of ADUs. -
Colorado has not said whether it would consider transferring Peters to a federal facility. -
With an $850 million shortfall looming, Gov. Polis and lawmakers spar over how to balance the budgetGov. Polis is asking lawmakers to slow spending on Medicaid and to privatize Pinnacol Assurance. -
Coloradans spoke strongly about school lunches in this off-year election. Next year's ballots will give them a lot more to chew on. -
A federal court has paused a Colorado law that requires social media companies warn young users about the potential harms of being on their sites. -
Coloradans pay more than most Americans for their car insurance, according to Gov. Polis. -
Colorado’s Joint Budget Committee has approved spending $10 million from the state’s reserves to shore up food banks and food assistance programs. -
The building itself, and the various objects inside it, open up bigger conversations about history and politics.
