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Lorena Garcia picked to replace Rep. Adrienne Benavidez in Colorado House
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Former U.S. Senate candidate Lorena Garcia is coming to the Colorado House of Representatives after a vacancy committee elected her to replace resigning Rep. Adrienne Benavidez. Garcia is a progressive Democrat and community organizer who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2020. She will finish Benavidez’s term representing House District 35, which runs through 2024. The Colorado Democratic Party announced Garcia’s…
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Rep. Adrienne Benavidez resigns from Colorado House weeks after reelection
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Mere weeks after she was reelected to serve her fourth and final term in the Colorado House of Representatives, state Rep. Adrienne Benavidez announced she will be resigning from her position. Benavidez, D-Commerce City, sent a letter to the House chief clerk Tuesday announcing that she will be stepping down. Her resignation is effective on Jan.…
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Colorado Supreme Court’s frustration at state agency boils over in juvenile case
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court lashed out on Tuesday at the state agency responsible for overseeing certain mental and behavioral health services to juvenile defendants, accusing it of flouting the law. In an appeal out of Weld County, the justices amplified their frustration with the Office of Behavioral Health that previously surfaced in 2019,…
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Colorado panel begins work on name change for Mount Evans
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A Colorado panel is getting ready to take on the most controversial name change in its two-year history: Mount Evans. The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board, which is tasked with finding replacement names for geographic landmarks with names considered offensive, decided Thursday that it’s ready to start looking at six proposals for the renaming of Mount…
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Proposed deadline extension to schools with Native American mascots riles Democrats
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A mystery amendment to House Bill 1390, the annual school finance act, put a last-minute blip onto the annual funding measure and riled Democrats who have worked for two years to require public schools to eliminate Native American mascots. Legislators added the amendment to the bill during a Senate Education Committee hearing on April 28. …
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House lawmakers target embattled Office of Public Guardianship, reject funding for expansion
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Problems with the state’s Office of Public Guardianship, as reported by Colorado Politics last month, led state House lawmakers Wednesday to halt the program’s expansion. The decision to keep the program from expanding occurred during the debate in the legislature over the proposed 2022-23 state budget. Democratic Reps. Meg Froelich of Greenwood Village and Adrienne…
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Colorado’s naming board rejects Union Reservoir change
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The Colorado Geographic Naming Advisory Board on Thursday recommended the governor reject a proposal submitted by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names, backed by the Union Reservoir Company and City of Longmont, to change the name of Calkins Lake to Union Reservoir. Union Reservoir has been the name commonly attributed to Calkins Lake for at…
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Colorado legislature passes bill expanding driver’s license program for undocumented immigrants
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The Colorado House of Representatives on Thursday gave a green light to a bill calling for opening more offices in the state’s driver’s license program for undocumented immigrants, sending the measure to Gov. Jared Polis for his signature, and he is expected to sign it. The vote, 42-22, included one Republican, state Rep. Hugh McKean…
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Colorado could replace Columbus Day with Election Day as a holiday
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The Colorado General Assembly’s annual bill to cancel the state’s observance of Columbus Day took on a twist on the House floor Tuesday. House Bill 1231 was amended by its sponsor, Rep. Adrienne Benavidez, D-Commerce City, to replace it with Election Day as one of state government’s 10 official days off each year. Opponents contend…
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Columbus Day repeal narrowly passes committee, aims for future compromises
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The annually doomed bill to repeal Columbus Day as a state holiday in Colorado has a twist this year: It would create a commission to forge mutual understanding about heritage between Coloradans of Italian and American Indian descent. The same approach was used to settle disputes over American Indian sports mascots at schools in Colorado in…
