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Zachary Spindler-Krage, The Denver Post Union members gathered at the west steps of the Colorado Capitol to speak out against Gov. Jared Polis’ recent vetoes of three union-backed bills in Denver, Colorado on May 23, 2024. Related Articles Politics | Colorado agricultural workers can now unionize. So why aren’t they? Politics | Teachers at Jewish Community Center preschool in Denver push to unionize

Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed a trio of bills that will bring Colorado in line with other states in regulating the funeral home and mortuary industry. SB24-173 will require, for the first time, that funeral home directors and people holding other industry jobs obtain licenses by passing background checks, earning degrees in mortuary science and apprenticing under a seasoned worker. The second bill, HB24-1335, requires state regulators to conduct routine inspections of facilities — something they have never had the power to do. “It’s time to professionalize the funeral home industry in Colorado,” Polis said at a news conference Friday. The governor’s signatures come after a string of horrifying cases across the state in recent years, including the illegal sale of body parts, findings of hundreds of decomposing bodies and the dispersal of fake ashes to grieving families. Colorado’s regulations over the funeral home industry have long been the weakest in the nation. The state had been the only one in the country that didn’t license funeral directors or require some certification.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Two years ago this week, Georgia Republicans nominated a former NFL star with a dodgy history in the state’s immensely ripe Senate race. Pretty soon, every utterance and each discrepancy became its own new scandal for Herschel Walker, until it was almost impossible to figure out where one started and another ended.

With the stroke of Gov. Jared Polis’ reluctant pen, Colorado this month became the first U. S. state to pass a law expressly regulating the use of artificial intelligence — a milestone that supporters said was an imperfect starting point to establish oversight of an emerging industry. The state’s new law broadly targets the risk of discrimination when companies use AI, while requiring basic levels of transparency. “I think Colorado’s AI act is a major shift in the approach to AI oversight in the United States,” said Duane Pozza, a Washington, D.

The stakes are high, and we can’t afford to be complacent.

The regime and the media clings to the “low inflation” lie—so let’s look at the data.