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Colorado unemployment rate falls for fifth consecutive month
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Colorado’s unemployment rate fell in November for a fifth consecutive month , the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment reported Friday. The state’s 5.1% jobless rate last month was down from 5.4% in October; it has dropped a full percentage point since July as 30,000 more people held jobs in November than did four months…
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Boulder County announces omicron case; patient has recent travel to South Africa
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Boulder County identified its first case of the omicron variant Friday, county officials said, 24 hours after Colorado confirmed its first case. The Boulder County man had recently traveled to South Africa, the county’s public health department said. The patient tested positive for COVID-19, and given their recent travel history, their sample was flagged for…
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With new state House and Senate maps, let the games begin
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The wait is over. And the scramble has begun. Now that the Colorado Supreme Court has approved new state House and Senate maps, candidates are crafting designs to run for more competitive seats that also appear to shrink the influence of rural communities at the state Capitol. The new maps will reshape Colorado’s political landscape, and,…
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Polis to congressional panel: Climate change is ‘an existential threat’
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BOULDER ? Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told a congressional climate-change committee’s field hearing Thursday that he considers global warming to be “existential threat to our security, our health, our economy, our public lands and eco-systems and our very way of life.” Polis was the lead speaker in a morning of testimony taken at the University…
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Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks lands new job
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Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks, who lost his bid for re-election in a campaign that centered on development, has accepted a job with Milender White Construction Co., which has undertaken several major projects in Colorado. “Albus has been an outstanding community leader in Denver for the last 19 years,” said Bryon White, president and chief…
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Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez garners strong support from Colo. associates
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BOULDER – Deborah Ramirez’s associates are standing with the intensely private Boulder woman who launched herself into the national spotlight Sunday with allegations of sexual misconduct by U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. “I fully support Debbie, 100 percent,” said Lisa Calderon, who hired and supervised Ramirez more than a decade ago to work with…
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Boulder to vote on keeping money from sugary-drinks tax
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Voters in Boulder will be asked whether they want to allow the city to keep extra money raised by a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. The 2 cent-per-ounce tax approved in 2016 has so far brought in more than $3.2 million for health and nutrition programs for low-income residents and those with chronic diseases and illnesses…
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Colo. Supreme Court recharges Xcel’s challenge to Boulder utility
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The Colorado Supreme Court has revived Xcel Energy Inc.’s legal challenge to Boulder’s plans to establish its own municipal power utility. The court Tuesday overruled decisions by a Boulder district judge and the Colorado Court of Appeals in saying the 2014 Xcel suit should be heard in district court, the Boulder Daily Camera reports. Xcel…
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NRA affiliate sues over Boulder’s new assault-weapon ban
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BOULDER – The Colorado affiliate of the National Rifle Association has filed a lawsuit against the city of Boulder in an effort to push back against the city’s new assault-weapon ban. Lawyers for the Colorado State Shooting Association, Boulder-based Gunsport of Colorado and two private citizens say the new ordinance, which took effect Friday, is…
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Jon Caldara, rifle club sue over Boulder ‘assault weapons’ ban
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Boulder’s new ban on assault weapons is already being challenged in court. The ban – city Ordinance 8245 – was passed unanimously by the Boulder City Council. It bans sale and possession of guns the city defines as assault weapons along with bump stocks (a.k.a. “multi-burst trigger activators”) devices that allow a gun to be…