The Colorado legislature has expanded its floor calendars and plans fast agendas as it works to pass legislation on housing, gun regulation, transportation, taxes and other priorities ahead of the end of the 2024 session next week.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Northglenn City Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to file an ethics complaint against state Sen. Faith Winter after she appeared at an April 3 community meeting in that city while apparently intoxicated.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA spokeswoman for the Colorado treasurer’s office has resigned from her job, weeks after her sexual assault allegations against a state lawmaker were found not credible by a judge.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareProposed changes to how Colorado doles out state education funding have divided school districts, pit rival Democratic-leaning education groups against each other and built bipartisan coalitions on both sides of the fight.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCannabis advocates in Colorado cheered the Biden Administration’s reported move to reclassify marijuana and said the decision likely would reduce businesses’ tax burden significantly.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThere are now just 10 days left in the 2024 Colorado legislative session. With a number of hefty bills still in the legislative pipeline, that means 10 days of long nights, voting marathons and hectic scrambling lie ahead of us.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Since U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert opted to change her address to one clear across the state late last year, the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District has fallen out of the media glare that seemingly shines on the controversial Republican congresswoman wherever she goes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBy JACQUES BILLEAUD, JONATHAN J. COOPER and JOSH KELETY, Associated Press
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDefendants in Colorado sexual assault cases soon will be prohibited from using what a victim was wearing or a victim’s hairstyle as evidence of consent.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA defunct provision of the Colorado Constitution that limits marriage to between a man and a woman may finally be stripped from the state’s guiding document under a proposed amendment introduced in the state Senate.
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePeople don’t seem to mind the idea of former President Donald Trump acting as a dictator, he told Time magazine in an interview that drew swift rebuke from the Biden-Harris campaign.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIt’s been more than five years since the Larimer County commissioners said no to Thornton burying miles of pipe in the county to transport water from the Cache la Poudre River.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Colorado lawmakers convened Wednesday with one week left in this year’s session of the General Assembly, giving them limited time to pass final bills on land-use reform, gun regulation, property tax relief, tax credits and other priorities.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Denver City Council has approved a $30 million contract with ASM Global to manage stagehand staffing at Red Rocks and other city venues after discussing concerns about the company’s compliance with city wage laws.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Leading Colorado Democrats and the state’s oil and gas industry announced a preemptive armistice Monday — one that seeks to defuse the latest round of dueling ballot initiatives and legislation aimed at the industry and its environmental impacts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareColorado lawmakers are racing against the calendar — or, depending on one’s outlook — wielding time like a weapon against disfavored policies — to finish their business for the 2024 regular session of the General Assembly.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Colorado lawmakers have passed new legislation in a years-long effort to curb foreclosures by homeowners associations and metropolitan districts that are based on unpaid fines and fees.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareJosephine Stratman | New York Daily News
NEW YORK — New York Courts will be posting the transcripts of Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial.
Each day’s transcripts will be posted online and publicly available before the end of the following business day, “to ensure broad and continuous public access to this extraordinarily high-profile case,” according to a release.
Nine years ago, one of Silverthorne’s few income-restricted housing properties was sold to a private firm. The sale — at a price that was double the property’s assessed value — raised worries in the high-cost mountain community that the new owner of the Blue River Apartments might lift rent caps that had kept its 78 units affordable when the requirements lapsed.
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A proposal to restrict big-rig truckers from using the left lane in certain high-risk areas of Interstate 70 through Colorado’s mountains moved closer to becoming law Tuesday after the state House gave near-unanimous support of the idea.
A bill aimed at barring landlords from using algorithms to set rents died in the Colorado Senate on Wednesday after a group of moderate Democrats joined Republicans to reject a more forceful House version of the measure.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, SCOTT BAUER and MICHELLE L. PRICE (Associated Press)
WAUKESHA, Wis. — Donald Trump on Wednesday will use a one-day break from his hush money trial to rally voters in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan, a day after he was held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem will headline a fundraising dinner for the Jefferson County Republican Party on Saturday despite backlash over a section in her soon-to-be-released book where she describes killing her dog over behavioral problems.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The pace is picking up at the Colorado Capitol, with stacked calendars of committee hearings and floor votes. The legislature has nine days to go — including this coming weekend — before the end of the 2024 session, which must adjourn by the end of the day on May 8.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Denver homeless advocates this month have demanded that city leaders step in to help 42 people who faced a potential return to the streets, two years after the city worked with service providers to move them into subsidized housing.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Lauren Boebert, a devotee of the Make America Great Again movement and a strong supporter of Donald Trump, shared a campaign stage with Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. in Loveland Thursday as the GOP primary election for the 4th Congressional District draws near.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAt this time last year, Colorado lawmakers were preparing to gut Gov. Jared Polis’ massive and marquee land-use bill that would have reshaped zoning across the state, spurring a stalemate that preceded the proposal’s death.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAll eight of Colorado’s congressional districts will have candidates on the June 25 primary ballot. And in three of those districts — the 3rd, 4th and 5th — the seat is open, providing the ingredients for a more boisterous fight than normal ahead of November’s election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFresh off a historic vote to advance a ban on many high-powered, semi-automatic guns, the Colorado House approved three more gun-related bills over the weekend — sending them across the Capitol for another round of debate.
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