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Colorado’s No. 3 in protests: Does it have a future in political tourism?
Denverite informs us Colorado has posted the third-highest cumulative attendance rate at political protests thus far during the Trump presidency. Only Vermont (really?) and the District of Columbia (naturally) rank higher. By hard numbers: Colorado has had about 33 demonstrators per 1,000 residents. Vermont had 40 and D.C. 1,324 (again, no surprise there). Denverite’s Megan…
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Colorado’s much-unloved 3.2 beer still the default brew despite 2016 legislation
Colorado’s General Assembly might as well have set out to revise the U.S. tax code – and then seek a lasting Mideast peace – and it still wouldn’t have been as complicated as trying to untie the Gordian Knot constricting retail liquor sales in the state. Compromise legislation passed by the legislature over a year ago was supposed to usher in historic regime…
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Private-schooled Sen. Michael Bennet reminds us he’s no fan of vouchers
… Nor of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the billionaire, education-reform advocate, top-dollar GOP donor and now Trump administration Cabinet member. You’ll recall Colorado’s Democratic senior U.S. senator had voted against her confirmation earlier this year. In response to a Washington Post headline last week – “Trump seeks deep cuts to public education programs in pursuit of school…
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Denver sets high bar for hate crimes, lowers it for panhandling, breaking park curfew …
… urinating in public and other such “quality of life” offenses. Which is to say they diminish quality of life – but not enough, in the eyes of Denver’s City Council, to warrant sending someone packing to his native land over a violation. Denverite’s Erica Meltzer reports the changes represent a sweeping sentencing reform of the city’s…
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Institute of Cannabis Research suggests pot — and Pueblo — have arrived
Colorado State University-Pueblo’s year-old Institute of Cannabis Research recently hosted its first conference, as Pueblo’s PULP reports, “less than five months after a local ballot initiative threatened to ban recreational shops, grows and manufacturing facilities.” PULP’s Kara Mason and Theresa Wolf write: The propositions to end the marijuana industry failed, but the questions about marijuana’s…
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Mitchell on Stapleton: Much ado about PERA in Colorado guv’s race
Republican State Treasurer Walker Stapleton has yet to officially step into the Colorado governor’s race, but he reliably draws flak from those already running – particularly fellow Republicans, of course – who see him as a force to be reckoned with. They eye him warily not just because of his vaunted Bush family ties or the money he’ll presumably be…
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Another report card for the 2017 session: This time, lawmakers get a ‘B’
To the cheers of the business community and the jeers of the plaintiff’s bar, the Colorado Civil Justice League regularly champions public policies to rein in what it contends is excessive, costly litigation. Generally speaking, legislation at the Capitol that would make it easier to sue, or to reap larger damages awards, gets a thumbs-down from the advocacy…
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State Senate GOP staffer Jesse Mallory to lead Colorado AFP
With Americans For Prosperity’s Michael Fields moving up from state director to take on a broader portfolio for the conservative, pro-free market, national advocacy group, Jesse Mallory – chief of staff for the ruling state Senate Republicans – has been tapped to fill Fields’s shoes. The AFP announced the move this afternoon, quoting Mallory: Mallory is…