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Colorado lawmakers vote to give themselves a pay raise beginning in 2025
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Colorado House Democrats on Thursday voted to boost the pay of General Assembly lawmakers beginning in the 2025-26 fiscal year, with those living in the Denver metro area getting substantially more in actual dollars and rate increase than policymakers who reside outside. The cost to taxpayers for the higher per diems is just shy of…
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Colorado Democrats seek stricter requirements for concealed carry permits; Senate panel OKs ban on using cellphones while driving | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Today is Feb. 14, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: A panel of House lawmakers on Tuesday approved, on an 8-3 party-line vote, a bill that would require stricter requirements for those who hold or want to obtain concealed weapons permits. The measure from House Majority Leader Monica Duran of Wheat Ridge and…
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12 years in City Hall: Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s triumphs and failures
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Outgoing Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, sits down with Denver Gazette for exclusive interviewTom HellauerTomHellauertom.hellauer@denvergazette.comhttps://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a3dc80c0a9d47d671f1f3da872cc0a06?s=100&d=mm&r=g Denver Mayor Michael Hancock knows what he’ll regret most from his three terms as the most powerful elected leader in Denver: Thanksgiving, 2020, when Hancock was caught traveling in the thick of a raging pandemic despite having urged the public to…
