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INSIGHTS | ‘Y’all Come’ isn’t on the playlist of Colorado’s candidates for governor
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For 50 weeks a year, a chunk of property in the middle of what passes for a town in rural Alabama sat vacant of everything but insects, snakes and a weather-stained block of concrete the size of a flatbed trailer. For two weeks each summer, before and after the Fourth of July, the weeds were…
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201 new Colo. laws and rules take effect
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The biggest batch of new laws from the last legislative session hit the Colorado books Wednesday. The 201 new rules and regulations took effect 90 days after the end of the 120-day General Assembly. The laws run the gamut from marijuana and hemp to rural economic development and deregulation of taxis, as well as removing…
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INSIGHTS | Colorado’s college paradox comes down to money
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If you’re proud of Colorado’s world-class universities, thank a donor or a tapped-out parent. The Colorado legislature? Eh, only if you’ve got any gratitude to spare, because the General Assembly has other priorities. Colorado enjoys one of the highest reputations for higher learning, and one of the most educated populations of any state (because of…
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Transportation tax advocates plan Monday rally over petitions
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The coalition Let’s Go Colorado is expected to announce Monday morning that it has turned in enough petitions to get a 0.62 statewide sales tax on the November ballot to pay for transportation. The Secretary of State’s Office will need to approve at least 98,492 valid signatures from registered voters to certify the measure. The…
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Interior Secretary Zinke cites Colorado’s advantages in BLM move
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke gripped two hiking poles, citing a gimpy knee from his years as a Navy SEAL and a college football lineman, as he wandered deeper into Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday. “There’s no reason a trail can’t begin on Forest Service property and go into…
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Bennet plans town hall meetings in Steamboat Springs, Granby next week
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet will listen to the concerns of constituents in northwest Colorado next week and possibly get in some fishing. Colorado’s senior senator, a Democrat from Denver, announced town hall meetings in Steamboat Springs and Granby Friday. Tuesday he will field questions and share his perspectives of issues concerning Colorado, including financial support…
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Herod, Michaelson-Jenet get high-profile praise for mental health advocacy
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Colorado Reps. Leslie Herod, D-Denver, and Dafna Michaelson-Jenet, D-Commerce City, were honored Wednesday for their work on mental health issues. They were lauded at Mental Health America’s Regional Policy Council breakfast in Los Angeles, coinciding with the National Conference of State Legislators’ Summit. Herod, who is leading a sales tax ballot measure called Caring 4…
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Initiative 97: Backers of oil & gas measure allege buyout of a signature gatherer
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For the second time in just over a week, a group hoping to restrict oil and gas operations in Colorado says a contractor it hired to circulate petitions for Initiative 97 has hurt instead of helped get the measure on the ballot. The pro-97 group, Colorado Rising, on Wednesday issued a statement saying that one of…
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Backers of Denver’s mental-health tax measure say they’ll file plenty of signatures
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Supporters of a Denver ballot measure to pass a sales tax to expand mental health and addiction services plan to turn in more than twice the required signatures Thursday to get on the November ballot. The Caring 4 Denver campaign needed about 4,700 signatures and turned in more than 10,000. “The success of our signature…
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Colo. partnership to work for ‘restorative justice’
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Prosecutors, public defenders and state administrators say they’ll work toward a system of justice that instills responsibility and remorse from offenders instead of longer jail sentences. State Rep. Pete Lee, D-Colorado Springs, has been beating the drum for the practice called restorative justice for years. Tuesday, the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, the…
