Scott Franz
Scott Franz is a government watchdog reporter and photographer from Steamboat Springs. He spent the last seven years covering politics and government for the Steamboat Pilot & Today, a daily newspaper in northwest Colorado. His reporting in Steamboat stopped a police station from being built in a city park, saved a historic barn from being destroyed and helped a small town pastor quickly find a kidney donor. His favorite workday in Steamboat was Tuesday, when he could spend many of his mornings skiing untracked powder and his evenings covering city council meetings. Scott received his journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an outdoorsman who spends at least 20 nights a year in a tent. He spoke his first word, 'outside', as a toddler in Edmonds, Washington. Scott visits the Great Sand Dunes, his favorite Colorado backpacking destination, twice a year. Scott's reporting is part of Capitol Coverage, a collaborative public policy reporting project, providing news and analysis to communities across Colorado for more than a decade. Fifteen public radio stations participate in Capitol Coverage from throughout Colorado.
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This article comes to HPPR from KUNC's Capitol Coverage. Click here for a link to the original article. Gov. Jared Polis announced Wednesday the state…
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Colorado's legislative session is just over two weeks old, and lawmakers have already introduced more than 270 bills and counting. With hundreds more...
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The opening days of Colorado's legislative session are typically jovial and largely free of partisan politics. The governor capitalized on that mood...
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There were the usual jokes and friendly banter between the House and Senate. State lawmakers from both sides of the aisle exchanged hugs in a chamber...
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Some of the biggest and most contentious laws the state legislature passed in 2019 go into effect on Wednesday, Jan. 1. Together, the new laws aim to...
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Some of the biggest and most contentious laws the state legislature passed this year are going into effect on Wednesday. Together, the new laws aim to...
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State Rep. Dylan Roberts (D-Avon) represents two counties on Colorado's Western Slope that face some of the highest health insurance costs in the state....
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Colorado residents have rejected a request from their state legislature to remove an annual government spending limit that some elected officials argued...
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Gov. Jared Polis has unveiled a budget proposal for 2020-21 that would expand the capacity at some state parks and boost spending on school safety in...
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Colorado conservatives have spent the last six months knocking on doors and manning recall booths around the state as they tried to convince residents...