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Sen. Ray Scott calls West Slope summit for cycling safety
The legislator who considered a bill to tax bicycles to pay for roads last year shares common ground with the cycling community on one thing for sure: safety. State Sen. Ray Scott, a Republican from Grand Junction, said Thursday he’s putting together a Share the Road Safety Summit in Fruita on July 17, in partnership…
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Pueblo Democrat Leroy Garcia launches reelection bid in Senate District 3
Assistant Senate Minority Leader Leroy Garcia, the Pueblo Democrat who took back one of the Senate seats lost to Republicans in Colorado’s 2013 recall elections, formally launched his campaign this week for a second term representing Senate District 3. Garcia, a paramedic, community college instructor and Marine Corps veteran, said in a statement he wants…
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New Colorado laws on pot, debt, sexting and driving take effect with the new year
Employers, debt collectors, teen sexters and pot growers are among those who have new laws to follow with the dawn of the new year. The minimum wage bumps up to $10.20 an hour from $9.30, and employees who get tips will see their base pay rise to $7.18 an hour, up from $6.28. This wasn’t…
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New Colorado law automatically suspends a driver’s license for fleeing a scene with injuries
If you leave the scene of an accident involving injury or death when the new year rings in, you just suspended your own driver’s license, the Colorado State Patrol is reminding motorists. Last session lawmakers passed House Bill 1277 to automatically suspend licenses, allowing those suspected to make a case for a temporary license while…
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AG candidate George Brauchler tweets it’s time to get tougher on seat belt laws
The guy who has a better than fair shot at being the state’s next chief prosecutor made late Christmas wish on Twitter Tuesday. He wants the legislature to buckle down on seat belt violators. George Brauchler, the south metro Denver district attorney running for attorney general, reacted to a Denver Post story about the state’s…
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New Colorado State Patrol chief: 600 road fatalities ‘unacceptable’ (VIDEO)
Col. Mathew Packard took the helm as chief of the Colorado State Patrol today, and at the center of his message was cracking down on impaired drivers. Traffic deaths are on the rise in Colorado over the past two years, reversing what had been a decade-long trend of falling fatalities. After Packard was sworn in…
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Coloradans weigh in on the future of self-driving vehicles at Senate hearing
WASHINGTON – A congressional hearing Wednesday implied broad changes are coming soon for Colorado’s highway transportation industry from self-driving truck technologies. Driverless trucks are part of the automated vehicle technology being developed by government agencies and private companies. They use computerized sensors to steer, throttle and brake vehicles, usually without human intervention. Senators at the…
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Eclipse traffic could create year’s biggest traffic jam on Colorado highways, CDOT warns
Picture six Broncos games getting out at the same time on the same stretch of road. That’s what traffic generated by Monday’s total eclipse of the sun – a once-in-a-century event in these parts – could amount to, the Colorado Department of Transportation is warning state motorists. And for those stuck in traffic between Friday…
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Knife Rights group thanks lawmakers, celebrates ‘sharper future’ as Colorado lifts ban on switchblades
After 54 years of “silliness,” switchblades are again legal in Colorado, and knife rights activists are cheering. “Today we celebrate a sharper future in Colorado,” said Doug Ritter, chairman of Knife Rights – motto: “A Sharper Future” – at a press conference Wednesday at a knife factory in Golden. Ritter, whose organization is dedicated to…
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Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper signs ‘Move Over for Cody Act’ to honor fallen state troopers
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday signed the “Move Over for Cody Act” legislation to raise penalties against drivers who don’t exercise caution when approaching and passing roadside emergency vehicles. The bill is named for State Trooper Cody J. Donahue, who was struck and killed in November by the driver of a semi on Interstate 25…