Author: Joey Bunch
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Colorado AG’s office announces $3 million for borrowers from auto lender
Hundreds of Coloradans could get some debt relief under a settlement with the nation’s largest subprime auto lender, Attorney General Phil Weiser said Friday. Santander Consumer USA, Inc. will forgive more than $3 million in debt and other reimbursements for 340 Colorado borrowers, Weiser’s office said. The money settles a case into whether Santander’s practices…
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Heidi Ganahl to make political announcement, but for what?
Heidi Ganahl, elected statewide to the University of Colorado Board of Regents, will end the mystery of her political future at an event next Tuesday in El Paso County. She’s saving the news until then. The event is being planned in Monument, but the time and location have not yet been disclosed. As Colorado’s only…
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Neguse secures $50 billion for proposed Climate Conservation Corps
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse of Lafayette is taking credit for landing more than $50 billion in stimulus money for the proposed 21st Century Climate Conservation Corps. The first $10 billion would go to hire thousands of young people and veterans starting out at $15 an hour, followed by $40 billion for local resilience and wildfire…
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Crow and Buck want FCC to extend 9-8-8 suicide hotline to texting
The national 9-8-8 suicide hotline championed by former U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner has two Colorado congressman seeking to take it to texting, as well. U.S. Reps. Ken Buck (R-Windsor) and Jason Crow (D-Aurora) made the request in a letter letter to the acting chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Jessica Rosenworcel, Thursday. Buck and Crow…
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Former DAs Morrissey and Brauchler named Common Sense fellows
Two former Colorado district attorneys, a Republican and Democrat, are the new criminal justice fellows for the Common Sense Institute, the Denver-based think tank said Thursday afternoon. George Brauchler is the former district attorney in the 18th Judicial District, which takes in much of the southwest metro Denver area. He was the Republican nominee for…
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President Biden is coming to Denver to talk economics
President Joe Biden is expected to visit Denver on Tuesday to talk about his economic policies, but it’s not yet clear where or when. The White House issued a briefly worded notice of the trip Thursday morning. Press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters in Washington, D.C. that the president would tout his Build Back Better…
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Colorado policymakers join other Democrats calling for looser immigration policy
Three dozen Colorado elected officials are joining with more than 700 other Democratic policymakers across the country to encourage the Biden administration to loosen immigration rules. Near the kickoff of next year’s election, the letter cuts across several Democratic talking points, including the death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recovery. “As our state…
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INSIGHTS | Welcome to the wild, wild Western Slope, where mavericks live on
Colorado has it backwards. State capitols are where shenanigans are expected to cross the line from political to criminal. West of the Continental Divide, they say, “Hold my beer.” Being a maverick on the edge of the law is tradition. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid roamed and robbed their way from Telluride to the…
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Lieutenant governor marks International Overdose Awareness Day
Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera marked Colorado’s progress in fighting deaths on the Capitol steps Wednesday to commemorate International Overdose Awareness Day. “We’ve lost far too many of our friends, neighbors, and family members to overdoses over the last 20 years,” she said. “But today is also an opportunity to lift up our survivors, those who…
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Two new three-digit numbers will connect Coloradans to mental health help
The Colorado House passed two bills this week to try to curb Colorado’s suicide rate and help callers get the mental health services they need with two respective three-digit phone numbers. Senate Bill 154 would launch the 9-8-8 national suicide prevention lifeline network in Colorado next January. The legislation was carried through Congress by former…