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Democrat Shannon Bird to step down from Colorado legislature to campaign full-time for Congress
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State Rep. Shannon Bird, a Westminster Democrat, said Sunday that she plans to resign from the Colorado legislature next month in order to focus on running for the 8th Congressional District seat held by Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans. Bird is one of four Democrats — two of whom are state lawmakers — seeking the…
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Democrat Amie Baca-Oehlert ends campaign to challenge Republican Gabe Evans in Colorado’s 8th CD
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Calling the political system “rigged against working-class people,” Democrat Amie Baca-Oehlert, a former president of Colorado’s largest teachers union, on Friday ended her bid to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans in the state’s most competitive congressional district. Baca-Oehlert’s exit from the Democratic primary leaves four prominent Democrats running for the chance to take on…
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Colorado Democrat Yadira Caraveo drops bid to win back 8th Congressional District seat
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Former U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo announced on Friday that she was ending her campaign to reclaim the Colorado congressional seat the Thornton Democrat lost last year in one of the closest U.S. House races in the country. Caraveo, a pediatrician and the first Latina to represent the state in Washington said in a statement that…
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Colorado lawmakers kill bill mandating ‘nonlethal’ methods to get compensation for livestock killed by wolves
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A panel of legislators struck down a bill that would have required livestock owners to use “nonlethal” deterrent tactics in order to get compensated for livestock killed by gray wolves. The House Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee decided the bill conflicted with stakeholder decisions following the 2020 passage of a ballot measure that reintroduced…
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Colorado lawmakers kill bill mandating ‘nonlethal’ methods to get compensation for livestock killed by wolves
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A panel of legislators struck down a bill that would have required livestock owners to use “nonlethal” deterrent tactics in order to get compensated for livestock killed by gray wolves. The House Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee decided the bill conflicted with stakeholder decisions following the 2020 passage of a ballot measure that reintroduced…
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Colorado lawmakers kill bill mandating ‘nonlethal’ methods to get compensation for livestock killed by wolves
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A panel of legislators struck down a bill that would have required livestock owners to use “nonlethal” deterrent tactics in order to get compensated for livestock killed by gray wolves. The House Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee decided the bill conflicted with stakeholder decisions following the 2020 passage of a ballot measure that reintroduced…
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Colorado lawmakers begin to tackle major housing bills, including occupancy limitations
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Major measures on housing are starting to move at the state Capitol this week, which saw the first hearings on some of the roughly 260 bills introduced in this session so far. Colorado faces an acute housing shortage. One study puts the deficit in metro Denver region alone at 45,025 to 115,012 housing units. As…
