CDOT’s I-70 deal with private partner will cost an estimated $2.2 billion over 30-plus years, documents show
Financial terms released Tuesday for the controversial Interstate 70 expansion through northeast Denver show that a partnership agreement will cost the Colorado Department of Transportation an estimated $2.2 billion over the course of more than 30 years.
For the first time, state transportation officials are detailing the figures that resulted from recently wrapped negotiations with Kiewit Meridiam Partners for a complex public-private partnership contract on the Central 70 project. CDOT selected the team in August from among four consortiums that bid to finance, design and build the $1.2 billion construction project, and then operate and maintain the widened 10-mile stretch for three decades.
The freeway project’s construction tab hasn’t changed much ahead of a groundbreaking that’s expected in early to mid-2018, though financing costs will push the total to nearly $1.3 billion.
Colorado justices grill debt collector about compliance with law
Michael Karlik
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Updated 3 hours ago
The Colorado Supreme Court repeatedly pressed a debt collection company last week to explain how its lawsuit against a Boulder woman for an unpaid credit card balance complied with the specific requirements that state lawmakers have created. Portfolio Recovery Associates,...
Artificial intelligence working group agrees on framework to replace Colorado law
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 5 hours ago
A group that has been working on artificial intelligence policy has reached an agreement on a framework that would replace the regulations adopted by Colorado legislators two years ago. The agreement has the backing of Gov. Jared Polis, who reluctantly...
Proposal to levy new fees on alcohol products in Colorado dies
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 6 hours ago
The proposal to collect millions in new fees on alcohol products — dollars to be earmarked for Colorado programs aimed at addressing the behavioral and physical health effects of alcohol abuse — died on Tuesday. House Bill 1271 sought to...
The numbers that Republicans say show Democratic midterm targets are a ‘political hallucination’
Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner
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Updated 4 hours ago
Democrats keep expanding their battleground map of midterm target seats, but do they really have any chance in some of the districts they claim they can win? Of the 44 districts listed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as targets,...
Pam Bondi subpoenaed for April 14 House deposition on Epstein files handling
Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner
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Updated 7 hours ago
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a subpoena Tuesday compelling Attorney General Pam Bondi to sit for a deposition on April 14 as part of an ongoing investigation into the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein...
Capitol Police chief asks for record-breaking budget, citing 58% increase in threats to Congress
Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner
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Updated 7 hours ago
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan on Tuesday argued sweeping threats against lawmakers justify his department’s historic budget request during a House Appropriations Committee hearing. Sullivan testified before the Legislative Branch Subcommittee on his budget proposal for fiscal 2027 funding....
After ‘winter of defeat,’ Colorado hopes for wetter summer
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 8 hours ago
With snowpack melt already peaking in some parts of the state and drought conditions worsening compared to last year, Colorado’s water watchers are hoping for a wetter summer, though they anticipate the situation deteriorating before getting better. Meanwhile, the governor...
Colorado, Democrat states oppose proposal to require EV chargers be made with 100% domestic components
Scott Weiser
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Updated 8 hours ago
Colorado has joined a coalition of about 20 states in opposing a federal proposal that would require electric vehicle chargers funded with federal dollars to be made with 100% domestic components. The Federal Highway Administration is considering raising the domestic...
Colorado ethics panel tells legislator to attend sexual harassment training
Marianne Goodland
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Updated 5 hours ago
Colorado’s House ethics panel admonished a Republican legislator over allegations he used a master key to access areas of the Capitol that he was not permitted to enter and that he had made sexually harassing comments to several female lawmakers....
Appeals court agrees defendant’s speech constitutionally protected against El Paso County judge
Michael Karlik
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Updated 6 hours ago
Colorado’s second-highest court agreed last week that a defendant’s critical statements toward a 4th Judicial District judge were constitutionally protected and could not form the basis of a retaliation charge. A three-judge Court of Appeals panel concluded that, in context,...
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El Paso County GOP names new executive director
The El Paso County Republican Party announced a new executive director on Monday. Party leadership appointed Cassandra Sebastian to the position, which had been vacant for several months. The title was last held by Daniel Cole, who left the organization in May to become the communications director for the Colorado GOP. Sebastian’s political career began […]
Candidate's failure to disclose felony throws Greeley race into limbo
The Greeley Tribune Editorial Board is plenty put out with one of the city’s new at-large council member, whose criminal history only recently came to light. Eddie Mirick failed to disclose that he had been convicted of a felony in 1978, and the city code bars felons from running for office. He was elected last […]