The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel: Manager can help airport take flight
Grand Junction Regional Airport has a new manager in Angela Padalecki, a choice that offers a fresh shot in the arm to an institution that sorely needs one.
Padalecki is a native Coloradan whose professional career spans a range of experience, from working at the Federal Reserve, the Bureau of Economic Analysis to standing up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and most recently to Denver International Airport, where she has overseen relations with 35 airlines.
The latter experience is what drew the airport board’s attention. If Grand Junction Regional Airport needs anything, it’s more daily direct flights to places such as southern California, Chicago and other locales of strategic importance to Western Colorado’s economic development agenda.
A proposed Democratic bill would make taking Colorado workers’ IDs a crime
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 2 hours ago
After a narrow 6–5 vote, a bill to bar employers from taking workers’ identification documents is moving to the full Colorado House, sparking questions about how often such intimidation occurs and whether a new state law is necessary. House Bill...
House rejects effort to withdraw US forces from the Iran war as Republicans stick with Trump
Kevin Freking
kevin.freking@associatedpress.com
Updated 4 hours ago
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9 Colorado hospitals at risk of closing due to Medicaid cuts
Nico Brambila
nico.brambila@denvergazette.com
Updated 4 hours ago
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Democrats vow to block next Trump Supreme Court pick amid Alito speculation
Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner
ramsey.touchberry.washington.examiner@gazetteedit.wpenginepowered.com
Updated 5 hours ago
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Lakewood mayor calls for unity, community in State of the City speech
Sage Kelley
sage.kelley@denvergazette.com
Updated 5 hours ago
Lakewood held its first State of the City address since 2018 on Wednesday — timing Mayor Wendi Strom attributed to fate. “We got bumped a few times on dates,” Strom said to a room of nearly 100 residents and officials....
Colorado Senate reworks key programs, gives preliminary nod to $46B budget
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 5 hours ago
With the Senate’s traditional Budget Day barbecue setting a lighter tone, lawmakers worked through the $46.8 billion state budget Wednesday, navigating a long list of amendments but avoiding the partisan clashes that defined the House debate last week. The Senate...
Colorado budget plan seeks to keep $306 million by canceling TABOR refunds
Marianne Goodland
marianne.goodland@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 5 hours ago
Tucked deep within the hundreds of pages of the proposed $46.8 billion 2026–27 state budget is a line item showing $306.1 million in savings — achieved by canceling Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights refunds. Gov. Jared Polis has recommended withholding TABOR...
RTD lays off two dozen managers in operations ‘realignment’
Scott Weiser
scott.weiser@gazette.com
Updated 4 hours ago
More than two dozen managers at the Regional Transportation District learned in March that their jobs would be eliminated, with their last day of work set for July 2. That’s according to documents provided to The Denver Gazette by an...
Colorado Supreme Court concerned about police overreach in interrogations
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 23 hours ago
Some members of the Colorado Supreme Court appeared hesitant on Tuesday to endorse the ability of police to interrogate a suspect after they have obtained a court order authorizing only the collection of physical evidence. Under Colorado’s criminal rules, law...
Colorado House committee advances Democratic bill to reduce penalties for ‘extreme indifference’ murder
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 3 hours ago
Lawmakers on the Colorado House Judiciary Committee narrowly passed a bill proposing changes to the state’s sentencing guidelines for murders facilitated with “extreme indifference to the value of human life.” Colorado is one of several states with this type of...
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