joey bunch. colorado politics
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Coffman sides with Democrats, unveils plan to restore net neutrality
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican from Aurora, took the national stage Tuesday to make a case Democrats have been arguing for months: That rules enforcing online “net neutrality” should be restored. He backed a Democrat-led effort to use the Congressional Review Act to reverse a Federal Communications Commission decision in December repealing 2015 rules…
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Jason Crow picks up big-name legislative endorsements in CD6 primary
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Jason Crow showed some separation the three-way primary in the the 6th Congressional District Friday with a list of endorsements from Democrats you probably know, if you know much about Colorado statehouse. He’s facing Levi Tillemann and David Aarestad in the primary for the district that includes Aurora and portions of Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas…
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Steamboat council shouts about impact fees, theorizes about Bill Gates
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Scott Franz of the Steamboat Pilot has a tale of raised voices, a hypothetical billionaire and which taxpayers should pony up the impact of traffic. The Steamboat Springs County has a discussion featuring “some raised voices” on fees charged to developers to offset the impact traffic from new homes or rentals would have on the…
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A whole bunch of Colorado laws go into effect Wednesday
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Wednesday marks 90 days since the end of the legislative session, which means Colorado law is set to change in ways large and small as a passel of new statutes join to legal code. More than 200 laws are set to take effect on Aug. 9. More take effect at staggered dates, depending on how…
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ADAPT protesters in wheelchairs removed from Colorado U.S. Sen. Gardner’s Denver office
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Protesters at congressional offices have become old hat, but the disability rights group Denver ADAPT rewrote the script with a 58-hour sit-in that ended Thursday night as police removed about 10 people, some in wheelchairs, from Colorado U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s downtown Denver office. As Denver officers moved them out of the office lobby, protesters chanted,…
