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Efforts to reintroduce wolverines in Colorado could take up to 2 years
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Even with Gov. Jared Polis’ official signature, the campaign to reintroduce wolverines in the state’s highlands could take years before claws are on the ground as Colorado awaits federal approval. State lawmakers this year approved Senate Bill 171, allowing for the reintroduction of wolverines, which have not roamed the Colorado mountains since 1919. Actual implementation…
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Colorado Senate compromises to strengthen human trafficking laws, proposal heads to governor’s desk
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Human trafficking, particularly of children, has been a hot and divisive topic at the state Capitol this year. But a bipartisan group of lawmakers has found a way of putting more teeth into the state’s laws by agreeing to a compromise that meant giving up a major provision but ultimately securing a proposal’s passage. …
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Modified Colorado bill bans firearms in state Capitol
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Colorado lawmakers substantially modified a proposal that originally listed nearly 20 places where a person would be prohibited to carry a firearm – even with a concealed weapons permit – to only a handful of areas, notably including higher education institutions. In narrowing down that list, the legislators added a new place where guns would be banned…
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Modified Colorado bill bans firearms in state Capitol
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Colorado lawmakers substantially modified a proposal that originally listed nearly 20 places where a person would be prohibited to carry a firearm — even with a concealed weapons permit — to only a handful of areas, notably including higher education institutions. In narrowing down that list, the legislators added a new place where guns would be banned…
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Heavy docket: Study recommends Colorado’s second-highest court expand by 25% to handle workload | COVER STORY
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In the past two years, Chief Judge Gilbert M. Román has presided over five swearing-in ceremonies for new judges on Colorado’s second-highest court. He has repeatedly opened with the same disclaimer about the 22-member Court of Appeals. “This is considered a heavy-docket court,” Román says. Numerically speaking, that amounted to 1,745 written opinions issued in the last…
