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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Colorado is one of seven states allowing late term abortions without restrictions. Voters have rejected similar measures seeking restrictions in recent years.
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Democrats at the state Capitol have tried for several years to create a paid family and medical leave program, but concerns from small businesses and Gov. Jared Polis have kept it from becoming law. Now the political battle is moving from the state Capitol to the ballot box, where voters will have the final say.
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As Colorado voters prepare to decide whether to bring grey wolves to the state, Capitol Coverage reporter Scott Franz talked to Dan Thompson at Wyoming Fish and Game about what it’s like to manage the animals in Wyoming.
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State Rep. Jeni Arndt joined a very exclusive club in the world of Colorado politics last year when one of her bills became so controversial, it triggered the first statewide referendum since 1932.
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Top Democrats in Colorado say they are alarmed by President Trump's criticism of mail-in voting, which the state has used since 2013.
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Gov. Jared Polis is ordering restaurants and stores to stop selling alcohol after 10 p.m. each night in an effort to prevent inebriated residents from...
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State Rep. KC Becker, D-Boulder, is nearing the end of her two-year tenure as Colorado’s Speaker of the House. It's been an eventful time at the Capitol...
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Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed what he is calling is the most difficult budget in state history because of the impacts of COVID-19. There were no...
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Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed a set of police reforms into law, saying they were a "long overdue moment of national reflection." The bipartisan law...
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Colorado lawmakers on Monday ended what is likely to go down in history as one of their most difficult, dramatic and emotional legislative sessions.