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Denver voters will decide whether to allow non-citizens to serve as police, firefighters
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Non-citizens are one step closer to being able to apply to become a Denver police officer or firefighter after the City Council unanimously approved a ballot measure seeking to change the city charter during Monday’s meeting. The proposed charter change requiring police and fire departments to drop a requirement that applicants be a U.S. citizen…
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Accused Planned Parenthood shooter would be competent to stand trial if forced to take medication: Psychologists
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The man accused of shooting up a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood in 2015, killing three and injuring nine, would be competent to stand trial if he were forced to take anti-psychotic medication, two psychiatrists testified at a federal court hearing Tuesday. Robert Lewis Dear, 64, was first ruled incompetent to stand trial in Colorado Springs…
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COLORADO ROUNDUP | Scaled-back Colorado oil and gas lease sale makes $1M
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GRAND JUNCTION Scaled-back Colorado oil and gas lease sale makes $1M A federal oil and gas lease sale in Colorado netted nearly $1 million in revenue. The Bureau of Land Management says 20 parcels totaling about 12.3 square miles were sold Dec. 13 for $981,143, including rentals and fees, in its quarterly Colorado lease sale.…
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Holocaust survivor Estare Weiser featured in ad for her son Phil Weiser’s attorney general campaign
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Estare Weiser, one of the youngest living Holocaust survivors, introduces her son Phil Weiser in a digital ad released Thursday by the Democrat’s campaign for Colorado attorney general. Born in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on April 13, 1945, Estare Weiser and her mother were liberated the next day by the Second Infantry Division of…
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Brexit leader Nigel Farage urges Trump to combat ‘pure obstructionism’ with national speech
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Nigel Farage, co-founder of the UK Independence Party and leader of the Brexit movement to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union, told Colorado Politics it could be time for President Donald Trump to address the American people in order to counteract what he called “pure obstructionism” by establishment forces in the wake of…
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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter wants courts to decide if Trump’s ongoing foreign business deals violate Constitution
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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter said Friday he’s suing President Donald Trump because he believes it’s a violation of the Constitution if the president’s businesses keep receiving payments from foreign governments without an OK from Congress. Perlmutter is among the nearly 200 congressional Democrats – including all three fellow Democrats in Colorado’s delegation, U.S. Sen. Michael…
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Colorado officials give cold shoulder to Sessions’ request to let federal prosecutors target medical marijuana industry
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants Congress to allow federal prosecutors to target legal medical marijuana providers, but Colorado officials and members of the state’s congressional delegation say they like things the way they are. In a May 1 letter to congressional leaders made public this week, Sessions asks lawmakers to nullify the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment,…
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All four Democratic members of Colorado’s delegation join emoluments lawsuit against Trump
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Every Democratic member of Congress from Colorado has signed on to a federal lawsuit charging President Donald Trump with accepting “emoluments,” or benefits, from foreign states without obtaining the approval of Congress, in violation of the U.S. Constitution. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, Jared Polis and Ed Perlmutter are among the…
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Denver attorney Brad Levin joins crowded Democratic primary field for Colorado attorney general
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Attorney Brad Levin, a Denver Democrat, plans to announce on Monday that he’s getting in the race for Colorado’s attorney general in next year’s election, he told Colorado Politics. “The office of attorney general should be about protecting all Coloradans, no matter what their station in life may be,” Levin said. “My 35-year legal practice…
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McCann: Sessions’ federal sentencing directive ‘disturbing’
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Denver District Attorney Beth McCann, Breckenridge District Attorney Bruce Brown and Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett are among close to 30 current and former local and state prosecutors to oppose a recent directive from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that instructs federal prosecutors to charge, pursue and seek the longest possible sentences for the “most…
