How much did the legislature accomplish this session? Look to Jared Polis.

As the Colorado legislative season comes to a close, the pressing question — as it is in most years — is exactly how much has been accomplished, or to put it another way, how much hasn’t been. 

Sometimes the answer isn’t as obvious as you’d think.

The one thing we definitely learned this year is that a solid-blue Colorado doesn’t necessarily translate into a solidly progressive Colorado. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Whatever you hear from the shrinking state Republican Party, Colorado is not California. It’s also not Massachusetts or Vermont. 

In changing from a solid red state to solid blue over the past two decades — with an all-too-brief purple interregnum — Colorado is, in fact, the Democratic flagship in the region….