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Polis signs 10 more bills into law | CROSSING THE FINISH LINE
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With 58 days left in Colorado’s 2023 legislative session, Gov. Jared Polis has signed 42 bills into law. After being signed, bills take effect in August, 90 days after the general assembly adjourns, unless otherwise specified in the bill. A full list of legislation signed this year can be found online by clicking here. Here…
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Michael Bennet, Colorado Springs veterans discuss ‘burn pit’ bill and how to improve health care
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet visited Colorado Springs on Thursday, in part to tout the PACT Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law Wednesday, expanding health care benefits for veterans who developed illnesses from exposure to toxic substances from burn pits on military bases. Burn pits are used to dispose of waste collected on overseas…
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The Aurora theater shooting: Tom Sullivan remembers
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Tom Sullivan started his day on July 20, 2012, like any other day. He got up at 2:30 a.m. to make coffee, getting ready for his 4 a.m. job at the post office. He turned on the TV to catch up on sports scores, but the TV was turned to a news channel. It was…
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Metro district bill dies in late-night committee hearing
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A bill that at first prevented, then allowed, then again prevented metro district developers from owning their own public financing died in a state Senate committee not long after the clock passed midnight Friday and bleary-eyed lawmakers trying to make sense of it all decided to put it to sleep. House Bill 1363 roller-coastered its…
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Blue Rising Together calls for legislative solution to fentanyl crisis
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Blue Rising Together, an organization focused on issues that make it difficult to grow up in Colorado, shared its support of passing bipartisan legislation to combat “the epidemic being caused by fentanyl across the state.” Dawn Reinfeld, executive director of Blue Rising Together, said the organization has been working for months with stakeholders and parents…
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First bills in the 2022 session focus on education, wildfires, crime prevention
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The first 10 bills for the Colorado state Senate focus on crime prevention and law enforcement, higher education, resources for firefighters and wildfire mitigation. Most, but not all, are sponsored by the Democrats who control the chamber. In announcing the first 10 bills, Senate President Leroy Garcia D-Pueblo said that “between the pandemic, historic wildfires,…
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Pikes Peak law enforcement, Mayor Suthers criticize Colorado legislators’ approach to crime
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Law enforcement leaders and local officials in the Pikes Peak region urged the Colorado legislature Monday to undo policies they view as responsible for soaring crime rates in the state. In a news briefing, Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers said the 2022 legislative session is likely to produce more proposals that would “undermine public safety,”…
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COVER STORY | Hot Topics of the 2022 General Assembly
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With 2022 an election year, lawmakers traditionally back off a bit from introducing controversial bills. That’s why they have approved some of the biggest measures of the past six years – oil and gas reform, Colorado option, climate change and greenhouse gas – in odd-numbered years when they worry less about voter reactions at the ballot box. Will…
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Lawmakers are already working on oil and gas plans in the aftermath of Firestone explosion
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Lawmakers say many of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s plans to address the oil and gas industry in the aftermath of a tragic explosion in Firestone are already in the works. Hickenlooper, a Democrat and former geologist, ordered a review of existing oil and gas operations in the aftermath of the April incident, in which two men…
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Everett: Why we run repeat bills
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Every year we see an article about legislators running the same bills year after year, just to see them killed in committee. There is usually a section in the article regarding “the cost” of running these bills, obviously trying to get the reader to question why we do this in the Legislature. Let me be…
