Signal over noise: an independent Colorado publication on politics, policy, culture, and civic life. What’s happening, why it matters, and where to go deeper.

The primary is over. The general-election campaign—and the fight over what reaches Colorado voters—starts now.

Colorado taxes income at a single flat rate. A push to replace it with graduated rates puts the larger question on the table: what the state can afford to fund.

Colorado organizations continue to absorb legal and political pressure. Who’s holding the line—and what it’s costing them.

Federal agencies can buy data they would otherwise need a warrant to collect. The gap between what the law restricts and what the market sells remains one of the defining privacy debates.