colorado politics
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Calendar Nov. 10-16
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Rep. Kyle Brown to replace Shannon Bird on Colorado’s Joint Budget Committee
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Colorado House Speaker Julie McCluskie appointed Rep. Kyle Brown to the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee. Brown, a Louisville Democrat, was chosen to replace Rep. Shannon Bird, D-Westminster, who announced on Friday that she would be stepping down from the committee effective immediately, House Democrats announced Monday. Bird is running in the Democratic primary for the…
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Colorado Sen. Matt Ball receives 20 under 40 honor from Council of State Governments
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Colorado Senator Matt Ball was named a recipient of the Council of State Governments’ 20 Under 40 award, the organization announced Tuesday. According to CSG, Ball, a Democrat from Denver, was selected from a group of applicants who demonstrated “excellence in engaging across differences, providing exceptional leadership, and advancing legislation that improves constituents’ lives.” Ball…
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Calendar Oct. 27-Nov.2
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CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances, water meetings, book signings, county commission hearings, city council meetings and more. As a subscriber,…
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Ballot initiative seeks to help Colorado gambling towns survive, Gov. Romer pushes back | A LOOK BACK
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Thirty-Five Years Ago This Week: All the Black Hawk, Cripple Creek and Central City sponsors of state ballot Initiative 4 were hoping for was to pay for the upkeep of their historic buildings, or so the initiative’s proponents claimed. “They just want to raise enough new money to tide their towns over between tourist seasons,”…
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Republican hopefuls for Colorado governor debate Medicaid, cost of living and state budget
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Nine Republican candidates for next year’s gubernatorial election participated in a debate this month hosted by the Denver Press Club, where they faced questions on host of issues that included the state budget, cost of living, and Medicaid. Reporters Marianne Goodland and Ernest Luning of Colorado Politics moderated the debate. Those candidates were: How to…
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Colorado’s competency backlog costs state millions each year, report finds
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Colorado’s growing competency backlog for criminal defendants is costing the state millions of dollars in fines each year and jeopardizing public safety, according to a new report by the think tank Common Sense Institute. The report, published on Thursday, found that inpatient competency evaluation orders have increased by 600% in the past 25 years, while…
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Parents, advocates sue Gov. Jared Polis, Colorado health agency over cuts to autism services
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The Colorado government is facing a lawsuit from a behavioral health association over cuts to autism funding. After the passage of the Congressional budget in July, Gov. Jared Polis and lawmakers had cut more than $250 million from the state budget to help fill a $783 million deficit. About a third of those cuts came…
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Data protection for minors, HOAs, and 911 calls: New laws going into effect Oct. 1
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A trio of new laws related to online data privacy for minors, foreclosures of homes in HOAs, and repeated calls to 911 dispatch centers take effect on Oct. 1. Here’s a summary of each law going into effect on October 1: SB24-041: Privacy Protections for Children’s Online Data Sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Robert Rodriguez,…
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Colorado man released under competency law arrested again with gun on college campus
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A man at the center of a growing debate around Colorado’s competency laws has been arrested less than a month after he was released from jail following the dismissal of an attempted murder charge. Ephraim Debisa, 21, who has also been referred to as Debisa Ephraim, was arrested earlier this week for allegedly bringing a…
