By Chase Woodruff | senior reporter
“Young people and students have always been on the front line of change. You’ve always been at the front line of progress and on the right side of history.”
— Denver Democrat Melat Kiros at a student anti-ICE protest
Volunteers at the Denver Clerk and Recorder’s office process ballots during the Colorado primary election on June 30, 2026. (Photo by Andrew Fraieli/Colorado Newsline)
By Chase Woodruff
The Colorado secretary of state’s office on Friday certified the list of ballot measures going before voters in November 2026 — and once again, the list is a long one. The 14 measures tie a record for the most questions put to voters in at least the last 52 years. Thirteen of them are citizen-initiated measures, while only one was referred to voters by the state Legislature. That’s compared to a 7-7 split two years ago. Coloradans haven’t voted on more than 10 citizen initiatives in any single election since 1974.
Students dance at a demonstration at La Alma Park in Denver, which followed a statewide student walkout to protest federal immigration enforcement on Sept. 4, 2026. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
By Lindsey Toomer
Students from more than 200 high schools across Colorado walked out of school Friday afternoon to protest federal immigration enforcement. Participating high schools spanned the entire state, but students in the Denver area gathered for a larger demonstration at La Alma-Lincoln Park in Denver at noon. Hundreds of students filled the park, where they listened to student speakers, talked to local organizations with tables offering various resources, and marched around the neighborhood.
Colorado state Rep. Mandy Lindsay, an Aurora Democrat, applauds on the floor of the Colorado House of Representatives on the final day of the 2026 legislative session on May 13, 2026, at the Colorado Capitol in Denver. (Photo by Lindsey Toomer/Colorado Newsline)
By Sara Wilson
The House Ethics Committee voted Friday to recommend that Rep. Mandy Lindsay be reprimanded over her mismanagement of Democratic caucus money, asked to step down as caucus co-chair and removed from most of her leadership and committee assignments. “Ethical violations are a large umbrella of possibilities, and I believe that what we observed and heard here fits the description of an ethical violation,” said Rep. Karen McCormick, a Longmont Democrat who chaired the committee.
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