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Come Jan. 1, you should be able to walk into most Colorado grocery and convenience stores to buy full-strength beer, the result of a measure adopted by the General Assembly in 2016. But that measure failed to include rules for implementation. A bill currently working its way through the legislature in this session’s final days…

Colo. House advances transportation bill

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The Colorado House of Representatives passed one of the most important bills of the session – to pump billions of dollars into transportation – Tuesday morning with 36 hours left in the four-month General Assembly. Senate Bill 1 was the first piece of legislation to be introduced this session. It passed the House on a…

Report: Legal marijuana boosts government revenue — a little

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Associated Press

A new report finds that legalizing and taxing marijuana boosts revenue for state and local governments, but not by much. The credit rating agency Moody’s Investor Service says in a study released Tuesday that legalizing recreational use of marijuana brings governments more money than it costs to regulate it. Despite high taxes on the legal…

‘Red flag’ gun bill meets its expected demise in Colo. Senate

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Marianne Goodl

A Colorado state Senate committee late Monday put an expected end to a “red flag” bill that would have allowed law enforcement or family members to legally remove firearms from mentally ill people deemed a threat to themselves or others. The Republican-led Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted down the “Zackari Parrish III…

Colorado House advances transportation compromise

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The Colorado House of Representatives on Monday evening gave preliminary approval to a transportation compromise worked out by Democratic and Republican leaders in the legislature. Senate Bill 1 calls for an additional $50 million annually in transportation spending, as well as money from last year’s Senate Bill 267 to borrow $2.35 billion. The bill depends on $495…

Colorado redistricting resolutions head to the ballot

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Two resolutions that could help create commissions to draw political boundaries for the Colorado legislature and the state’s members of Congress are headed to the ballot. Monday morning the state House of Representatives passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, which refer respective ballot questions on legislative and congressional redistricting to the November…

Colo. Senate advances bill to tackle same issue as House red flag measure: mental health

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Marianne Goodl

The Republican-controlled Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee later Monday is expected to hear the “red flag” proposal on guns, House Bill 1436, and kill the measure, likely along party lines. At the same time, Republicans are pushing for a bill to address the mental health issue that is also embedded in the red flag…

Fix Our Damn Roads could ask Colo. voters to force lawmakers to use existing taxes

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Fix Our Damn Roads, a ballot initiative to force Colorado lawmakers to spend existing taxes on transportation instead of a new one, will soon receive signatures from like-minded voters. The effort is counter to a proposal being considered by a coalition led by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, which could ask voters to approve…

As Pueblo school strike looms, Colorado Springs teachers union forging new deal

Debbie Kelley, The Gazette

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COLORADO SPRINGS – As teachers in Pueblo City Schools prepare to strike on Monday, Colorado Springs’ only collective bargaining educators’ union is close to ratifying a new master agreement for next school year. There’s no strike expected – teachers in Colorado Springs School District 11 haven’t gone on strike since 1975. Electronic voting will conclude…

Military seeks to limit Congress on fixing child sex assault