Chas Sisk
Chas joined WPLN in 2015 after eight years with The Tennessean, including more than five years as the newspaper's statehouse reporter.Chas has also covered communities, politics and business in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied economics and journalism. Outside of work, he's a dedicated distance runner, having completed a dozen marathons
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Legislators failed to make revisions or to come up with a plan to keep a first-in-the-nation AI law that's been derided by tech companies from taking effect early next year. -
Governor Polis signs a bill to protect educators from pressure to remove books from school libraries, while Cortez renews its Urban Forestry program. Other updates include health-related resignations in Arizona, a proposed tobacco tax delay in the Navajo Nation, and wildfire mitigation efforts across the West. -
House Bill 25-1011 would have required daycare chains to be more transparent about pricing and to notify parents prior to layoffs. But opponents said it'll discourage operators from opening up centers. -
The proposal calls on districts to adopt formal policies on hearing challenges and sets limits on who can file them. -
The measure still needs to clear a few procedural votes, but it appears on its way to Gov. Jared Polis' desk. -
A proposal in the General Assembly would add "gender" to the list of details recorded about the deceased, along with "sex." The move is already another battle line between conservatives and progressives. -
National chains are a growing share of the state's childcare providers, and lawmakers want regulations before they get any larger. -
Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic lawmakers want to cap state insurance payments to hospitals, but providers say they're already operating in the red. -
Local officials worry a state voting rights law could open them to new litigation — and change how Colorado's city elections are run -
Four states have set up procedures for people to restrict sales of guns to themselves voluntarily.
