The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: A level playing field
What do internet sales have in common with school funding?
Aside from being complex issues which seem to defy easy legislative solutions, they epitomize the awkward outcomes of the state’s tax policy. They’re two peas in the same pod. And that pod deals with fairness.
Let’s look at internet sales first. Purchases made online accounted for 12 percent of total U.S. retail sales and 50 percent of total sales growth in the past year, according to an analysis prepared by FTI Consulting.
Merv Bennett, former member of Colorado Springs City Council and longtime YMCA leader, has died
O'Dell Isaac
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Merv Bennett, a former member of Colorado Springs City Council and a major force behind the growth of the local YMCA, died Saturday after a long illness, former Mayor John Suthers said. Bennett was 77. “Our city has lost one...
US rejects bid to buy tons of coal on public lands for less than a penny per ton | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
The Associated Press
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MONTANA Lowball coal bid rejected BILLINGS — Federal officials rejected a company’s bid to acquire 167 million tons of coal on public lands in Montana for less than a penny per ton, in what would have been the biggest U.S....
Calendar Oct. 27-Nov.2
Rachael Wright
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Updated 6 days ago
CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances,...
Colorado Campaign finance commission convenes to address rising PACs, make other reforms | A LOOK BACK
Rachael Wright
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Updated 5 days ago
Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: Gov. Roy Romer convened the first meeting of the Colorado Campaign Finance Reform Commission, which was led by Dr. Gene Nichols, dean of the University of Colorado Law School. The Campaign Finance Commission was made...
Federal judge ‘dumbfounded’ at government’s rejection of enforceable order holding ICE to its own policy
Michael Karlik
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Updated 2 days ago
A federal judge on Friday grilled the government over its position that an internal policy defining the ability of immigration agents to make warrantless arrests should not be enforceable through a court order. “As a citizen of Colorado and of...
Arapahoe County proposes $670 million 2026 budget
Kyla Pearce
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Updated 17 minutes ago
Arapahoe County officials presented a proposed 2026 budget of $670 million to commissioners on Tuesday, a significant increase from the previous year during which the county faced and recovered from a budget shortfall. Officials invited the public to weight in...
Downtown Denver sees tepid signs of absorption in empty office space
Mark Samuelson Special to The Denver Gazette
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Updated 10 minutes ago
Denver’s newly remodeled 16th Street is open at its full expanse, beckoning workers and employers back into a downtown that was partially vacated during the pandemic, when office vacancies climbed past 30%, then 35%. Now analysts are seeing a glimmer...
Colorado justices field questions about values, disagreement at East High School
Michael Karlik
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Updated 2 days ago
Members of the Colorado Supreme Court fielded probing — and in some instances, tough — questions from East High School students on Thursday, including how the court balances existing law with “evolving social values.” “Often what we’re looking at is...
Colorado hospitals are operating on ‘unsustainable’ margins, report finds
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 2 days ago
Nearly 70% of Colorado hospitals ended 2024 with “unsustainable” margins, according to a new financial report from the Colorado Hospital Association. Tom Rennell, the group’s senior vice president of financial policy and data analytics, said hospitals’ expenses are outpacing their...
Divided appeals court upholds convictions despite ‘troubling and unfair’ contradictory police testimony
Michael Karlik
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Updated 3 days ago
Colorado’s second-highest court upheld a man’s convictions for unlawful possession of a firearm on Thursday, even as the majority acknowledged it was potentially unfair that a Denver officer testified to a different sequence of events at trial than earlier in...
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