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WATCH: COLORADO POLITICKING | Boebert’s ‘anti-Muslim bigotry’ and remembering Justice Greg Hobbs
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This week on Colorado Politicking, political correspondent Ernest Luning joins host Pat Poblete to discuss the reaction and fallout from “anti-Muslim bigotry” directed at a member of Congress by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Silt. Chief Legislative Reporter Marianne Goodland then joins the show to remember former state Supreme Court Justice Greg Hobbs, who passed away…
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Latino community advocates: Colorado redistricting plan needs big changes
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The Colorado House and Senate district map being toured around the state for public input doesn’t provide adequate voting power to the state’s Hispanic and Latino communities, according to the Colorado Latino Leadership Advocacy & Research Organization. The prominent statewide advocacy organization proposed a total overhaul of the proposed legislative district maps, with a special…
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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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Transportation measures’ backers park petitions at secretary of state’s office
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Supporters of two transportation measures proposed for Colorado’s November ballot jockeyed for first position at the Secretary of State’s Office when it opened at 7 a.m. Monday to turn in petitions. One measure, Initiative 153, would raise the state sales tax by about 6 cents on a $10 purchase, effective Jan. 1, to finance bonds for…
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Colo. campaign-spending initiative sets signature record
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Signatures for the last of seven measures that proponents hope to make it to the November ballot were turned in to the secretary of state just after 2:30 p.m. Monday. The last one turned out to be the biggest in terms of petition signatures, with more than 212,000 names – a new state record for…
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Signatures turned in on oil and gas, payday loan initiatives
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Petition signatures for proposed Colorado ballot measures to cap payday loans and to increase the setback for new oil and gas drilling activity around homes made their way to Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ office Monday. Backers of Initiative 126, the payday loan initiative, turned in 188,045 signatures at 11 a.m. Monday. Supporters of…
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Colorado chief medical officer Wolk resigning to go to California
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Dr. Larry Wolk, the sometimes-controversial head of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, is leaving his post at the end of August and headed to California, according to an announcement Friday from Gov. John Hickenlooper. Wolk was appointed as the state’s chief medical officer in September 2013. In announcing Wolk’s departure, Hickenlooper said “Larry’s leadership…
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Colorado, Kansas reach settlement over Republican River
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The states of Colorado and Kansas have agreed on a settlement over the Republican River in eastern Colorado. On Friday the attorneys general of the two states announced that Colorado would pay Kansas $2 million to resolve a dispute over Colorado’s overconsumption of water from the Republican River. The settlement comes on top of another…
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Initiative 108: A record 209K petition signatures turned in
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Proponents of a ballot measure they claim will strengthen private property rights turned in a record 209,000 petition signatures Friday to the secretary of state. Initiative 108 is a constitutional proposal for the November ballot that its chief sponsor, Colorado Farm Bureau, says will allow private property owners to take state or local governments to…
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Attorney general says state Constitution doesn’t bar sports gambling, but …
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Anyone want to make book on the next big fight at the General Assembly in 2019? A good bet would be on sports gambling. Last May the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a 1992 federal law that barred most states, including Colorado, from authorizing sports betting. After the ruling, the state Department of Revenue sought an opinion from…
