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Man who shot terminally ill wife cannot claim he had her consent, appeals court rules
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The Jefferson County jury that convicted a man of first-degree murder for shooting his terminally ill wife did not need to consider whether he had the victim’s consent to kill her, the state’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday. In a case involving an alleged “mercy killing,” Bruce E. Bagwell shot his wife of 36 years, Theresa…
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Family medical leave bill gets first real hearing but stalls over amendments
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The Senate Finance Committee hearing on Senate Bill 188 Tuesday took a very different look than the hearing in the Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee a week ago. For one thing, people who opposed the bill finally got to testify against it on the record. Tuesday night’s seven-and-a-half hour hearing on the FAMLI family medical…
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AG Weiser to Colorado law enforcement: Follow the law on red-flag gun bill
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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, one day before a state Senate committee is expected to hear the controversial red-flag bill, issued a plea of sorts to sheriffs and other law enforcement officials who oppose the gun measure if it is approved by the General Assembly and the governor. The bill would allow a court to…
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Senate panel OKs expansion of Colorado driver’s license program for undocumented immigrants
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A bill expanding the number of Colorado motor vehicle offices that offer undocumented residents the opportunity to obtain a driver’s license or state identification card passed a Senate committee Thursday. Senate Bill 139 won 5-2 approval (with Republican Sen. Jack Tate of Centennial voting in favor with the Democrats) from the Senate Finance Committee. The…
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Colorado Senate committee OKs rules on driver cellphone use
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A bill that will require motorists to keep their hands on the wheel and not on their cellphone won unanimous approval from the Colorado Senate Transportation and Energy Committee on Thursday. Democratic Sen. Lois Court of Denver rewrote Senate Bill 12 in between its first committee hearing on Jan. 24 and its final committee vote…
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State Senate Democrats shoot down income tax rate cut applauded by Polis
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While Colorado Gov. Jared Polis says he favors reducing Colorado’s income tax rate, Democrats in the state legislature, especially those on the Senate Finance Committee, don’t appear to be singing the same song. In his State of the State address to lawmakers Jan. 10, Polis spoke of “working with you to make our tax code…
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Bill restricting Colorado cellphone use while driving is on hold
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The Colorado state Senate Transportation & Energy Committee on Thursday delayed action on a bill that would require drivers to either use a mounted device for holding mobile phones or keep both hands on the steering wheel. Senate Bill 12 is sponsored by Senate President Pro tem Lois Court of Denver, and 2019 marks her…
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Sen. Court tries a 3rd time to ban holding cellphone while driving
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State Sen. Lois Court is on a mission. For the past three years, the Denver Democrat has led an effort at the state Capitol to get Colorado motorists to pay more attention to their driving than to their cellphones. She struck paydirt in 2017, persuading the General Assembly to green light a bill boosting the…
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‘Red flag’ gun bill meets its expected demise in Colo. Senate
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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…
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DFER: Why Colo. Democrats threw it out of their state assembly
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On April 14, in what was the most dramatic moment in the Democratic Party’s state assembly, party activists won delegates’ assembly approval for a demand that the Colorado chapter of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) stop using the word “Democrat” in its name. The move exposed a deepening schism in the party over school choice…
