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Colorado justices to hear cases on ‘borrowed’ allegations, policyholders’ failure to cooperate
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The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear an appeal asking whether lawyers can incorporate allegations from other lawsuits into their own complaints without personally speaking with witnesses in the prior cases first. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to hear a case on appeal. The justices will…
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Appeals court clarifies attorneys may ‘borrow’ allegations from other litigation when filing suit
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Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday made it easier for plaintiffs to bolster their civil claims, concluding attorneys are not forbidden from using allegations in other litigation in their own complaints. Under Colorado’s rules for civil cases, attorneys must attest that the complaints they file are well-grounded in fact to the best of their “knowledge, information, and…
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FCC investigating CenturyLink internet outage, 911 failures
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U.S. officials and at least one state said Friday that they have started investigations into a nationwide CenturyLink internet outage that has disrupted 911 service in Colorado and elsewhere. In Greeley, the Weld County Regional Communication Center on Friday said 911 calls were being dropped, but callers should keep trying and emergency dispatchers would try…
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Rural broadband bill heads to governor
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DENVER – The Senate Tuesday morning agreed to House amendments on Senate Bill 2, the bill to finance the buildout of rural broadband. With that resolved, the bill now heads to Gov. John Hickenlooper and a hoped-for signing. House amendments last week resolved several lingering issues. That included a lawsuit from Viaero Wireless that the…
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Major rural broadband bill nearing final vote from Colorado House
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The House Thursday gave preliminary approval to the major rural broadband bill, Senate Bill 2, and put it on the path to final approval for Friday. It wasn’t without a change or two, however. Senate Bill 2 would direct a surcharge on voice lines, included in consumer phone bills, into the state’s broadband deployment fund.…
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Legislature moving at the speed of fiber to get internet service to rural Colorado
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After years of frustration over slow or non-existent broadband service in rural Colorado, the General Assembly is poised to move at the speed of fiber optic to finally connect rural communities, and economic opportunity, to the Internet. In the past week, another measure that would make high-speed broadband service possible for rural schools, homes and…
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Major rural broadband bill clears the Colorado Senate, heads to House
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A bill that could put up to a hundred million dollars into financing rural broadband cleared the Colorado Senate Thursday morning with changes its sponsors say will speed up the process. Senate Bill 2 would take dollars from a fund that currently pays for landlines and shifts that over five years to pay for internet…
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Lawmakers rush on rural broadband waiver bill but it may be for naught
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The second bill to whip through the Colorado General Assembly – on rural broadband – cleared the House Wednesday and is headed to the Senate. But the effort by lawmakers to get the bill to the governor post-haste may not produce the desired results. House Bill 1116 would task the state’s rural broadband deployment board…
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Colorado lawmakers hope for 2018 solution on broadband for rural communities
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The grand bargain of the 2018 Colorado General Assembly might just be in finally finding a way to pay for putting high-speed broadband service into rural communities across Colorado. That’s the hope, at least, for the sponsors of Senate Bill 2, brought to you by some of the same folks who carried last year’s grand…
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Technology grants to spur STEM learning in Colorado classrooms
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From little acorns grow mighty oaks, so the saying goes. Colorado kids and their teachers have an opportunity to find those little acorns of technology through a grant program from CenturyLink that is currently accepting applications for 2018. The CenturyLink Teachers and Technology grant program awards $5,000 to teachers in public, private and charter schools…
