Every project on one page, and what is near you

Every project on one page

The Projects page now lists 1,479 Colorado projects in one table, with a map beside it.

It holds the state's capital projects and requests, the IT projects in the Long Bill, and every project in CDOT's own catalog.

Filter by county, agency, stage or size. The map and the table follow the same filter.

Each project now has a page of its own. Every one can be followed, shared, printed or rated.

CDOT names a county for most of its road projects but not a place. We do not guess where they are, so they are in the table and not on the map.

What the state is paying for near you

Near you answers one question: what is the state paying for in your county?

Type a ZIP code, pick a county from the list, or tap it on the map. The page shows the projects there, funded and not funded.

Your county stays on your device until you press Forget. Other pages that ask for a county then open on it.

Is the money keeping pace with the calendar?

CDOT posts a dashboard each month for each construction contract on two projects. Each one prints what has been paid and how much contract time is used.

A new Pacing page for each project puts those figures on one chart. It shows whether payments run ahead of the calendar or behind it.

See Floyd Hill pacing and North I-25 Segment 5 pacing.

The Floyd Hill page also lists the figures in CDOT's own dashboards that do not add up. Each is shown as CDOT printed it, and labeled.

Colorado's jobs figure reached August

Two weeks ago Colorado's newest unemployment rate here was for May. The copy we read had stopped there.

We now read the rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics itself. The newest month is August 2026, at 4%.

The Bureau marks August preliminary, and it may revise it next month.

The national rate for the same month is 4.1%. Both are now for the same month.

Ask WB shows every month for Colorado from January 2019.

Eleven years of the state's operating budget

Ask WB showed the Long Bill's operating total for two fiscal years. It now shows eleven, from FY 2016-17 to FY 2026-27, in one table.

The total was $26.99B in FY 2016-17 and $49.56B in FY 2026-27.

Each is the total printed in that year's Long Bill, as enacted. Later bills change a year, so it is not what the year finally was.

It is money the state allowed itself to spend, not money spent.

Corrections

The corrections log has new entries dated 25 September. Each one says what we published, what it says now, and how we found it.

The legislature is not in session

The General Assembly is between sessions. The next one opens on 11 January 2027.

The General Assembly recorded no votes between 25 September 2026 and 1 October 2026. Its most recent recorded vote was on 13 May 2026.

Every recorded vote since 2016 is at Before It's Law.

Where these figures come from

Every figure above is one of two kinds, and this is which. FACT means a publisher printed the figure and we read it there. CALC means we worked it out from figures a publisher printed, and the arithmetic is on the methodology page. Nothing here is estimated.

• FACT Unemployment rate (seasonally adjusted) · Aug 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics — unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, Colorado (LASST080000000000003), public API Back to the sentence
• FACT Unemployment rate, United States (seasonally adjusted) · Aug 2026 · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey — unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted, United States (LNS14000000), public API v2 Back to the sentence
• FACT Operating appropriation, all departments (Long Bill) · FY 2016-17 and FY 2026-27 · Colorado General Assembly, HB26-1410, the 2026-27 Long Bill (Session Laws of Colorado 2026, chapter 436) Back to the sentence