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Mark the date: Thursday, March 12, 2020. Continue Reading
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For the past few weeks, state health department officials have been working with an expert task force of physicians, researchers and mathematicians from local universities, to try to predict how the novel coronavirus spreading across the world might progress locally. Continue Reading
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"We need to start thinking about our priorities for the next phase of response." Continue Reading
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If things go according to plan, Justin Everett will be up late next year, reading every word in every bill introduced in the Colorado House of Representatives, and when the legislation comes up for a vote, he'll give a good share of it a thumbs down. Continue Reading
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The governor pointed out that his top priority has been to lower the cost of health care, including health insurance. Continue Reading
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Colorado leaders from both parties had hoped to invest hundreds of millions of dollars each year to help catch up to $9 billion in needs over the next decade. Continue Reading
Proposed ballot initiatives that would redirect tobacco tax revenue, create a right to “consumer choice” for natural gas, and clarify the economic impact of future citizen-initiated measures advanced one step closer to the November ballot during Wednesday’s Title Board meeting. Continue Reading
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Joey Bunch: "The hero, in my book, is the common man, woman and non-binary individual who faced down the plague and panic and fought back with a broom. They are the truck drivers, the GrubHub deliverers, the grocery clerks, the fry cooks and especially the doctors and nurses." Continue Reading
Colorado is set to get 100,000 masks as early as next week from Taiwan, part of a 2 million-mask pledge to the United States. The country pledged 10 million masks to countries hardest hit by the global pandemic. Continue Reading
The idea is that, in doing so, the city dissuades the promoters from booking elsewhere and increases its own revenues from concessions and ticket sales associated with the large events that get booked in those facilities. Continue Reading
The transition to the new facility could happen as soon as next Monday, multiple service providers told Colorado Politics. Continue Reading
For low-wage workers in critical businesses — think grocery story clerks and nursing home aides — the offer of emergency child care may be easier said than done. Continue Reading
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Lynn Bartels: "The ongoing pandemic has upended so many life events, weddings, funerals, births, vacations and work. But not everyone is sympathetic to graduating seniors." Continue Reading
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Freeland, a retired midwife and small business owner, won almost identical shares of the vote in virtual assemblies held in Park, Chaffee and Teller counties, making it mathematically impossible for another Democrat to get the 30% support required to make the June primary ballot. Continue Reading
Together, they fielded questions from the community throughout the hour-long meeting, which drew in more than 1,500 people. Continue Reading
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Joey Bunch: "The best plan we can make, one that won’t make God laugh, is a plan to be kind. We can all do it, and it doesn’t take a vote or cost a dime." Continue Reading
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John Gates has seen a lot of changes during his 62 years in his native Greeley. For the retired cop, nowadays his city's mayor, nothing better illustrates the contrast between old and new in his hometown than his choice of a day job and second career with Greeley public schools. Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet said, "Right now, Colorado and the country are facing a challenge that's greater than any since World War II." Continue Reading
Denver law enforcement is currently limiting the number of arrests for low-level, non-violent property and drug crimes and is issuing summons instead. Continue Reading
Labor unions and liberal groups want workers to be on the front lines of coronavirus recovery plans, they said in a telephone press conference Friday morning. Continue Reading
For one emergency room doctor who works at a Denver area hospital chain, a projected onslaught of COVID-19 patients has meant alternating between urgently posting on Facebook and Nextdoor in search of extra protective face masks to practicing peaceful meditative techniques to calm himself when he thinks of what’s to come. Continue Reading
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CaucusRoom, a social networking platform designed to give conservative Coloradans a place to gather online, is now holding assembly rooms in its chat rooms. Continue Reading
Perhaps Colorado's most noted pundit and opinion-taker, Ciruli questioned in his blog whether the money and name recognition behind former Gov. John Hickenlooper would carry him across the finish line in June. Continue Reading
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The level of dissatisfaction in Colorado, while low, does not mirror the experiences of other states. Continue Reading
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The senator tells Colorado Politics that unlike the motivation for the last federal stimulus package, the COVID-19 pandemic "was not caused by anyone, other than an invisible enemy that we have to combat, Republicans and Democrats, not as partisan warriors." Continue Reading
As instructed by Mayor Michael Hancock, the finance department will apply the waiver to installment payments that were late as of March 20. Any property owners who paid the late interest on or after that date will be fully reimbursed. Continue Reading
Gov. Jared Polis has worked with corporate leaders to form advisory councils as the state addresses the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Continue Reading
In the past several months, proponents of numerous policy ideas have taken to submitting multiple — in some cases, dozens — of minor variations to the three-member board before choosing a viable measure to circulate for signatures. Continue Reading
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A Republican, Brown represented Colorado in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate over a 16-year span. Continue Reading
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In honor of Women's History Month, Colorado Politics asked some of the state's best-known history makers who inspired them. If they stand on the shoulders of giants, who are those giants? We found an international leader, moms and a grandmother, a first lady, civic do-gooders, a widow, a beloved teacher, a captain of industry and a jailhouse cook who shaped the hearts and minds of those shaping public policy in Colorado. Continue Reading
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is measuring himself for presidential trousers, it seems to me, as he makes a case for leadership in a crisis. Continue Reading
The latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises against clearing encampments “unless individual housing units are available.” Doing so, the agency warns, “can cause people to disperse throughout the community and break connections with service providers,” increasing the odds the disease will spread. Continue Reading
“Protecting our Republican Senate majority has become synonymous with ensuring a firewall against the Democrats’ far-left ambitions." Continue Reading
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Colorado could lose half its jobs in retail, recreation and entertainment, according to a new analysis of the coronavirus fallout from the Common Sense Policy Roundtable. Continue Reading
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Colorado Politics did virtual sit-downs with the two leading Democratic Senate candidates — and spoke with other candidates still hoping for their shot. Read those stories below: Continue Reading
Former Gov. John Hickenlooper takes up a lot of the energy in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat in Colorado, but Andrew Romanoff is showing he's a contender, too. Continue Reading
Andrew Romanoff is a tenacious rival in the Democratic primary for Colorado's U.S. Senate race, even before he gets a shot at Republican incumbent Cory Gardner. Continue Reading
“When I was mayor, we had the incredible economic paralysis in 2008, 2009, and I'm having flashbacks to that, and I remember just how intense that is for small business and people trying to make a payroll,” he says. Continue Reading
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Colorado's U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet took his grievances with the federal response to the Senate floor Monday, accusing President Trump of failing to take the global pandemic seriously enough and instead resorting to "happy talk." Continue Reading
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Senate Bill 83 prevents civil arrests at courthouses. The legislation was sponsored by Sen. Julie Gonzales and Rep. Leslie Herod, both Denver Democrats. Continue Reading
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"A manager at my local supermarket told me the other day that he ordered 500 cases of toilet paper and only 15 cases arrived. He handed out the toilet paper that night, one package per customer. Every morning there’s a line out the door before the store opens." Continue Reading
With only nine of 13 members present for the second week in a row, Denver City Council met Monday night as the novel coronavirus loomed large, affecting not only the items on the council’s agenda, but even what members wore and the way they sat. Continue Reading
Backers of the repeal claim it has been used disproportionately against African-Americans. Those who opposed the repeal pointed to cases like that of Christopher Watts of Frederick, who murdered his wife Shanann and their two young daughters in 2018. Continue Reading
Residents of Colorado's San Miguel County were ordered to "shelter in place" on Thursday, as were all Californians when Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state's 40 million residents to stay home indefinitely, with few exceptions. Continue Reading
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"If we're going succeed on social-distancing measures, if we're going to succeed on flattening the curve, the American people are going to need certainty that they're going to be able to put food on the table; they're going to be able to pay the rent and they're going to be able to pay the mortgage," Gardner said. "This legislation gives them that certainty." Continue Reading
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The native of GOP heartland El Paso County who nowadays is a family man in equally Republican DougCo, remains an all-around political play maker for Colorado's right. Continue Reading
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Joey Bunch: "Lopez is counting on a backlash from the middle to the current governor's policies on green energy, health care and what Lopez sees as government overreach into business." Continue Reading
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Colorado Politics' chief legislative reporter Marianne Goodland sat down with Gov. Jared Polis to discuss his approach to the crisis and what his days have been like since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Continue Reading
The move reflects current and anticipated declines in transit ridership and revenues due to the disease, Fitch said in a statement, and applies to transit agencies nationwide that have the highest dependence on fares to fund operations. Continue Reading
Eric Sondermann: "We’re seven days in as I write this column — depending on when you started counting. Seven days that have underscored how the 'new normal' is becoming the rule for who knows how long." Continue Reading