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Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Thelma Grimes
thelma.grimes@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 5 hours ago
Colorado lawmakers are wrapping up their work on Wednesday, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a...
Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Thelma Grimes
thelma.grimes@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 6 hours ago
Colorado lawmakers are wrapping up their work on Wednesday, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a...
Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Thelma Grimes
thelma.grimes@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 6 hours ago
Colorado lawmakers are wrapping up their work on Wednesday, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a...
Colorado legislature wraps up tough budget year
Thelma Grimes
thelma.grimes@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 6 hours ago
Colorado lawmakers are wrapping up their work on Wednesday, closing out a year defined by the lack of fiscal flexibility, woes over Medicaid spending and a staccato of action on a host of issues, ranging from artificial regulation to a...
10th Circuit again dismisses ex-prison employee’s challenge to workplace DEI training
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 4 hours ago
The Denver-based federal appeals court dismissed a second lawsuit on Monday brought by a former Colorado Department of Corrections employee who was offended by an equity training module and had alleged it created a hostile work environment. In 2023, U.S....
AI’s rapid growth spurs regulatory reaction in Colorado
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 7 hours ago
The 2026 legislative session was marked by a major push to regulate artificial intelligence, a technology advancing at breakneck speed. Colorado is at the forefront of AI policy, becoming the first state to pursue regulation on “algorithmic discrimination” by passing...
As Colorado’s federal judges churn through immigration petitions, Domenico’s cases sit undecided
Michael Karlik
michael.karlik@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 9 hours ago
Colorado’s U.S. District Court judges have spent months pushing out decisions in hundreds of immigration detention cases and largely siding with detainees, but one judge has barely touched his caseload. Chief Judge Daniel D. Domenico has only issued orders in...
Bill on firearm barrel sales withdrawn after veto threat from Colorado governor
Marissa Ventrelli
marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 7 hours ago
A bill that would require firearm barrels to be sold in person by a federally licensed firearms dealer was pulled by its sponsors, who said they were all but told that Gov. Jared Polis would veto the measure. Sponsored by...
Colorado Democrat Jason Crow calls on House leadership to ban trading on prediction markets
Ernest Luning
ernest.luning@coloradopolitics.com
Updated 7 hours ago
U.S. Rep. Jason Crow on Monday joined a bipartisan call asking House Speaker Mike Johnson to adopt new rules banning the chamber’s lawmakers, their families and staff from participating in prediction markets, in a move the Aurora Democrat said can...
Federal judges hear arguments over Colorado school district’s gender identity rooming policy
Nicholas Fogleman
nicholas.fogleman@denvergazette.com
Updated 17 hours ago
A panel of judges at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging JeffCo Public School’s policy of assigning students to overnight accommodations on school trips based on gender identity. The lawsuit, filed in...
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Colorado House announces first 10 bills of 2020
Although the 2020 legislative session has all the earmarks of another partisan year, the House sent a strong message Wednesday with the introduction of half of its first bills for the 2020 session — bills all with bipartisan sponsorship. House Bill 20-1001 will raise the minimum age for purchasing tobacco, including vaping products, to 21. It’s […]
State to hold hearing on proposed personnel rules
The Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration will hold a hearing on Jan. 31 to take comment on proposed personnel policy changes for the 28,611 classified employees of the executive branch. “These rule changes are essentially making them consistent with contemporary practices,” said the department’s communications director, Doug Platt. “We’re not changing a lot of […]