Brian Eason
Brian Eason writes about the Colorado state budget, tax policy, PERA and housing. He's passionate about explaining how our government works, and why it often fails to serve the public interest.
Born in Dallas, Brian has covered state and local government in five different states. At the Indianapolis Star, his reporting exposed how local government agencies contributed to neighborhood abandonment by selling blighted homes to absentee investors. For The Denver Post, his reporting showed how policymakers had ignored warning signs for years that culminated in a financial crisis for the Public Employees' Retirement Association and its members. At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he investigated private equity's role in pushing homeownership out of reach in Black neighborhoods across metro Atlanta.
In 2021, Brian completed his master's in public policy while working as a fiscal analyst for the Center for State and Local Finance at Georgia State University.
Job title: Politics and policy reporter
Topic expertise: Public finance, tax policy, housing, PERA
Location: Denver
Newsletter:ÌýThe Unaffiliated, Colorado’s premier, must-read politics and policy newsletter
Education: University of Missouri and Georgia State University
Honors & Awards: Brian has won a number of awards for investigative and political reporting in state-level contests. In 2015, he won the Kent Cooper Award for story of the year in Indiana. In 2023, he led a reporting team in Atlanta that won Bronze in the national Barlett & Steele Awards.
Professional membership(s): Investigative Reporters and Editors
Contact:
Email: brian@coloradosun.com
Bluesky:
Threads:
