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Out West Roundup: Montana must rewrite transgender bathroom ballot description
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Montana Montana must rewrite transgender bathroom ballot description HELENA, Montana – The Montana Supreme Court ordered the state attorney general to rewrite ballot language for an initiative that would require people to use public restrooms and locker rooms designated for their gender at birth. The court ruled in a challenge from the American Civil Liberties…
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Hickenlooper signs Esgar-Garcia bill creating specialty license plate to recognize Pueblo chile
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday signed a bill to create a specialty license plate recognizing Pueblo chile, but it appears the state’s neighbor to the south will beat Colorado to the bumper with its own license plates featuring New Mexico’s famous Hatch chile. “This is a proud day for all of Colorado, not just for…
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New Mexico governor, lawmakers no closer to special session
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Republican Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration and Democratic state lawmakers exchanged more blame Thursday for inaction as New Mexico grapples with a growing budget deficit. Martinez promised earlier this summer to call a special legislative session so lawmakers could address a nearly quarter-billion-dollar shortfall from the last fiscal year and an estimated $458 million hole for the fiscal year…
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New Mexico governor, lawmakers no closer to special session
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Democratic New Mexico lawmakers are complaining that Gov. Susana Martinez hasn’t offered a plan to fill the state’s budget hole. The Republican governor says she’s already asked the agencies under her control to cut back and has promised to call a special legislative session once lawmakers have concrete proposals for shoring up the state’s finances. But there’s no…
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New Mexico governor seeks to reinstate death penalty
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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez announced Wednesday plans to attempt to reinstate the death penalty in response to recent events including the killing of a police officer. New Mexico repealed the death penalty in 2009 before Martinez took office by replacing provisions for lethal injection with a sentence of life in prison without parole. Martinez…
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The Hot Sheet, March 3, 2016
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By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright_@JaredWright_ Thursday, March 3, 2016 DENVER – Happy Thursday, the day when Mitt Romney ups the rhetoric against Donald Trump, and Fox News flips off a switch in hopes Marco Rubio will begin to feel the pain (or at least an absent, cold shouldered feeling). “If you believe that your…
