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Purplish

Colorado Public Radio

Purplish is a podcast about politics and policy and how they shape Coloradans’ lives, hosted by Colorado Public Radio’s public affairs reporter Bente Birkeland and reporters from the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. They break down the latest developments at the statehouse, in Congress and in local communities, to find the bigger picture behind the political headlines.Purplish is produced by CPR News with support from the Colorado Capitol News Alliance, a collaboration between KUNC News,

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18:59

You Can’t Kiss Babies Over Zoom

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2020/05/22

…But that doesn’t mean candidates won’t try it in this, the most unusual of election seasons.

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15:46

Budget Cuts and Building Rules

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2020/05/14

Lawmakers have a lot of decisions to make before they return to work at the end of May. Those are as big as cutting three billion dollars from the budget, and as small as where people will sit to achieve social distancing.

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18:13

W(h)ither The Big Bills?

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2020/04/16

Remember the start of the legislative session, when all talk was about paid family leave, the public option, and how Jared Polis might use his power as governor in the<p><small><a href="https://www.cpr.org/podcast-episode/wither-the-big-bills/" class="more-link">Read More</a></small></p>

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19:54

Justice — And Many Other Things — Delayed

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2020/04/10

What happens to the right to a speedy trial when the court system is shut down during a pandemic? Can testing every last person in a small Western Colorado county yield new insights into the spread of coronavirus? What will life in Colorado look like the day after the "stay home" order lifts? And how much, really, will lawmakers actually try to push through once they're allowed back in the state capitol? Hosts Bente Birkeland and Andrew Kenney tackle those questions and more

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19:49

Partisan Politics vs. Pandemic Politics

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2020/04/03

Times of crisis generally bring people together, but even in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic, politicians can only sing kumbaya for so long.

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18:06

The ‘Stay At Home’ Order, Discussed By Three People...

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2020/03/27

Our hosts locked themselves in their bedrooms, or hid under blankets in their closets, to record this week's episode, which is all about the politics and practicalities of Gov. Jared Polis' statewide "stay at home" order.

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20:42

Politics, Policy, and the Pandemic

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2020/03/21

The legislative session is on hiatus, but politics, governing, and Purplish all definitely go on. In fact, policy-making is going on at warp speed, as Gov.

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17:30

Legislation In The Time Of Coronavirus

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2020/03/14

Lawmakers aren't getting ready for 100 years of solitude. Just two weeks or so.

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17:01

Super Tuesday Might Not Mean What You Think In Colorado…

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2020/03/06

When is an election like a bad night of speed dating? When you’ve gone through five candidates and still aren’t so sure about the one you’re finally matched with.

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23:24

Sausage In The Making

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2020/02/29

Democrats in the state legislature say they’re ready to step into two big areas where they don’t think Coloradans are being well served: with the cost of their health insurance,<p><small><a href="https://www.cpr.org/podcast-episode/sausage-in-the-making/" class="more-link">Read More</a></small></p>

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20:58

Out Of The Statehouse, Into The National Spotlight

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2020/02/22

With presidential candidates -- and the president himself -- flocking to Colorado, we take a look at the state of the race here, and its implication for Cory Gardner's hotly contested Senate seat.

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20:23

Family Matters

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2020/02/15

It's one of the most passionate fault-lines in state politics: how to balance the authority of parents with the need to protect children and advance society's interests. And people at the Capitol have a LOT to say about it.

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22:56

Big Ideas Incoming

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2020/02/08

We're a month into session, and Capitol newbie Andrew Kenney is starting to realize it's not all pithy quotes and snappy debates. Lawmakers are getting to wrestle with some of the session's most contested proposals.

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14:23

The Matter Of Life And Death

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2020/02/01

Should Colorado keep the death penalty? As lawmakers once again debate abolition, it's a question that divides parties, and friends, at the state capitol.

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14:05

The Political Is Personal

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2020/01/25

This week we're talking about some of the ways things can get personal -- very personal -- at the state capitol.

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13:58

Things Democrats Disagree About

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2020/01/18

Colorado’s capitol is current firmly in the hands of the Democrats, so that means smooth sailing for all their policies right? Yeah, not so much.

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2:13

Trailer: Purplish Reborn

Purplish ·

2020/01/11

A lot has happened, dear podcast listener, since Sam, Bente, and Megan chatted in our final episode last year.

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26:00

ALL OF THE BILLS!!!!

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2019/05/09

Colorado’s 2019 legislative session is over. The last four months of frantic lawmaking were a test for Democrats, who took complete control of the state Capitol last November. This episode, we look back at everything they were able to achieve — and why arguments over process at times got in the way of their biggest goals. And how Republicans, who lacked the votes to block legislation, found other ways to make their voices heard. The result was a session that showed passing bills isn’t as

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24:18

The First Fractivist

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2019/04/06

Ken Crumb’s story likely sounds familiar. A Front Range resident sees oil and gas drilling in his community. He doesn’t like it and organizes his neighbors to pass a local drilling ban. The thing is, in Ken’s case, this all happened more than 30 years ago. And that community he rallied was Greeley -- not exactly a hotbed of anti-fracking sentiment today.This episode, we look back at perhaps Colorado’s first fractivist. What Ken did ended up limiting local control of oil and gas

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27:34

Electoral College Dropouts

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2019/03/02

Colorado is on the verge of becoming the 12th state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The plan could someday commit all of Colorado’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who gets the most votes nationwide -- no matter who wins the state.

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