Today is Aug. 6, 2024, and here’s what you need to know:

Donald Trump set to headline high-dollar fundraiser in Aspen

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is slated to attend a sold-out, high-dollar fundraiser in Aspen on Saturday hosted by more than a dozen wealthy GOP donors, according to invitations to the event.

Billed as a dinner and roundtable with the former president, the fundraiser features tickets priced from $25,000 to $500,000 per couple.

An invitation to the fundraiser was posted online by the Republican Party of Orange County. It will be Trump’s first publicly announced visit to Colorado this election cycle. His most recent appearance in the state was a February 2020 rally in Colorado Springs.

Parties hint of negotiations to remove Colorado property tax initiatives from November ballot

Two initiatives designed to reduce property taxes for Coloradans might not appear on the November ballot if lawmakers and advocates succeed in negotiating the terms for a rare special legislative session that would tackle soaring valuations.

Lawmakers and political advocates hinted at discussions to halt Proposition 108 and its companion measure, Proposition 50, in exchange for a special session on property taxes and local government revenue. Proposition 50 already qualified for the ballot, while election officials have yet to conclude whether Proposition 108 also turned in enough signatures. Proponents are confident it would make the ballot.

That special session would have to happen quickly, as the deadline to remove the propositions from the ballot is Sept. 6.

Vacancy committee to select new Democratic candidate for HD19

A vacancy committee will meet on Thursday to select a candidate to replace Rep. Jennifer Parenti, D-Erie, in the House District 19 election. Parenti announced she was dropping out of the race last month.

In a letter announcing her departure, Parenti cited the prevalence of “personal agendas and special interests” in the legislature, which she said made it hard for her to maintain her sense of integrity.

Two candidates, Anil Pesaramelli and James Reed, are now vying to represent the Democratic Party in the November election. Pesaramelli, a software engineer at Kaiser Permanente, previously ran for the Boulder Valley School District School Board. Reed, an IT professional, also has experience on the board, having served as vice president and president.

Most see ‘Kamalanomics’ as worse than ‘Bidenomics’ | ANALYSIS

Monday’s cratering of global stocks amid new recession fears has Wall Street and the public scrambling to determine if Vice President Kamala Harris’s economic plan will be better than “Bidenomics.”

She hasn’t presented an economic plan other than her past bragging on Bidenomics, a phrase the administration abandoned as inflation took off. And in her focus on friendly audiences, such as Black sorority conventions, she hasn’t revealed her financial agenda.

But voters are paying attention, and they are giving Harris a worse grade than President Joe Biden.

Colorado justices take on major topics, 10th Circuit divided on pot controversy | COURT CRAWL

The state Supreme Court has accepted multiple appeals on consequential topics, plus the federal appeals court based in Denver advanced competing views about the propriety of hearing a marijuana-related lawsuit in the first place.

• Colorado’s justices will hear two appeals concerning the state’s open meetings law, which lays out requirements for how public bodies are to make decisions in public. A decade ago, the Court of Appeals recognized the ability of governments to “cure” their open meetings violations by redoing their action at a proper meeting, so long as they don’t rubber stamp the original decision. The concept of a cure doesn’t explicitly appear in the law, however, and the Supreme Court will decide whether to approve of its existence.

• The Supreme Court may also intervene in a lawsuit that seeks to hold ExxonMobil liable for the financial impacts of climate change in Boulder County. It’s one of a number of similar lawsuits across the country against fossil fuel companies, but the court will address whether the novel claims here can proceed according to state law.