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Bennet to Trump administration: Hear from the courts before chewing on Bears Ears
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Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is telling the Trump administration to tap the brakes on its fast-moving plan to open up portions of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah for mining and drilling, until the courts have a say. He and 15 other Democratic senators sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke…
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Sens. Cory Gardner, Michael Bennet want to keep federal ski fees closer to the slopes
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Colorado Sens. Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet introduced a bill Tuesday that could help keep some of the money generated by fees for ski areas that use national forests closer to the slopes. Gardner, a Republican from Yuma, and Bennet, a Denver Democrat, along with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, think a portion of…
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Government confirms that, yes, border searches of electronic devices way up
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Privacy advocates now have a number: Customs personnel roughly doubled their searches of electronic devices at the nation’s borders in the last six months, conducting nearly 15,000 searches of traveler phones and computers between October and March, according to numbers released by Customs and Border Protection. Capitol Hill lawmakers — including Colorado Rep. Jared Polis…
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Polis signs on to bill to protect against phone searches at airports, borders
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Colorado U.S. Rep. Jared Polis has joined a bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill to protect mobile phones from national border and airport searches, his office announced Tuesday. “The government should not have the right to access your personal electronic devices without probable cause,” he said. “Whether you are at home, walking down the street, or…
