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Colorado lowers cost of phone calls for prisoners, will make calls free in 2025
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Colorado is moving to make phone calls free for prison and jail inmates, as a new law goes into effect on Friday. The Colorado Department of Corrections currently charges 8 cents per minute for phone calls to and from prisons. If an inmate makes a 15-minute phone call everyday, that adds up to $438 each…
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Tim Hernández to represent Denver’s District 4 in Colorado House of Representatives
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Chicano activist and teacher Tim Hernández will represent northwest Denver in the state House of Representatives. Hernández was selected on Saturday by a 68-member vacancy committee to represent House District 4 through 2024. Hernández will complete the term of former Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, who represented House District 4 since 2019 and resigned earlier this month to join the Denver City…
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Colorado Democrats call for legislative action against HOA foreclosures
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Gov. Jared Polis and other Democrats are calling for action after a report revealed homeowner associations have foreclosed on thousands of Colorado properties and auctioned off hundreds due to unpaid HOA fees. In a statement released Wednesday, Polis and four state legislators said the actions of these HOAs exacerbates Colorado’s ongoing housing crisis. Polis said he…
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3 Denver Democrats fight to fill vacancy in state House of Representatives
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Three Democrats are battling it out to determine who will be the next to represent northwest Denver in the state House of Representatives. Colorado’s House District 4 seat will be vacant beginning on Friday, as its current occupant, Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, resigns to join the Denver City Council. The Democratic of Party of Denver has until Sept. 3…
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Democrats begin search to replace Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez in Colorado House of Representatives
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Residents of northwest Denver will soon have a new representative in the state House. The Democratic of Party of Denver is beginning its search for the next representative of House District 4, the party announced Tuesday. Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez, who has represented the district since 2019, resigned to join the Denver City Council. She was inaugurated…
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Q&A with Rep. Ruby Dickson | Colorado’s youngest legislator on leading future-facing policy
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At just 27 years old, Rep. Ruby Dickson is the youngest state legislator in the Colorado Capitol. A Colorado native, Dickson grew up in the Denver metro area attending public schools and performing the national anthem at Rockies games. She earned a master’s degree in economics from Oxford University just over a year before returning…
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State Rep. Lindsey Daugherty to run for Colorado Senate District 19
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Another candidate has entered the race for the soon-to-be-open seat representing Colorado’s Senate District 19. State Rep. Lindsey Daugherty announced Friday that she’s formally launching her campaign for the Senate seat. Daugherty aims to replace her fellow Arvada Democrat, state Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, who currently represents the district and who will be term limited by the November…
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Q&A with Rep. Ron Weinberg | First-year lawmaker on building bridges
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The 2023 legislative session was one of the most contentious the state has seen. But you wouldn’t know that from watching Rep. Ron Weinberg. In a year defined by dissension, the first-year Republican lawmaker from Loveland stood out as a beacon of camaraderie and bipartisanship. From grilling dinner for the lawmakers during late-night debates to being…
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Colorado bans local housing growth caps
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Local housing growth caps will soon be banned in the state of Colorado after Gov. Jared Polis signed a new law on Wednesday. Beginning in August, House Bill 1255 prohibits local laws that limit annual housing construction or residential permits, and erases those that currently exist in several cities in Colorado, such as Boulder, Golden and Lakewood.…
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32 bills died without votes in the Colorado legislature this year. Here’s what they’d do.
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Some bills end not with a bang but a whimper. In Colorado’s 2023 legislative session, 32 bills died on the calendar. That means the bills failed not because lawmakers voted to reject them, but because they never got around to holding a vote in the first place. Lawmakers often choose to kill bills in this…
