Since U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert opted to change her address to one clear across the state late last year, the race for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District has fallen out of the media glare that seemingly shines on the controversial Republican congresswoman wherever she goes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBy JACQUES BILLEAUD, JONATHAN J. COOPER and JOSH KELETY, Associated Press
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDefendants in Colorado sexual assault cases soon will be prohibited from using what a victim was wearing or a victim’s hairstyle as evidence of consent.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA defunct provision of the Colorado Constitution that limits marriage to between a man and a woman may finally be stripped from the state’s guiding document under a proposed amendment introduced in the state Senate.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareJust over two weeks remain in the Colorado legislature’s 2024 session, and the days are getting longer as leadership works to fit dozens of still-pending bills into the rapidly shrinking calendar.
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePhotographs line the walls, plants sit on windowsills and a Buddhist altar is arranged atop a dresser.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareColorado lawmakers have again rejected a bill that would have allowed supervised drug-use sites to open in willing cities — the third time in a year legislators have killed the proposal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareColorado will distribute $24 million in one-time funding to public school districts and charter schools impacted by the unprecedented influx of immigrant students who arrived after the annual October headcount that determines districts’ state funding.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Colorado lawmakers are abandoning plans to overhaul the Regional Transportation District’s governing board and change how its members are selected after transit officials blasted the plan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDemocrat Adam Frisch brought in the biggest financial haul of any of Colorado’s congressional hopefuls during the first three months of the year, raising $1.4 million — nearly six times as much as his main Republican rival in the 3rd Congressional District, Jeff Hurd.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFormer Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Colorado lawmakers have passed new legislation in a years-long effort to curb foreclosures by homeowners associations and metropolitan districts that are based on unpaid fines and fees.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareJosephine Stratman | New York Daily News
NEW YORK — New York Courts will be posting the transcripts of Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial.
Each day’s transcripts will be posted online and publicly available before the end of the following business day, “to ensure broad and continuous public access to this extraordinarily high-profile case,” according to a release.
Nine years ago, one of Silverthorne’s few income-restricted housing properties was sold to a private firm. The sale — at a price that was double the property’s assessed value — raised worries in the high-cost mountain community that the new owner of the Blue River Apartments might lift rent caps that had kept its 78 units affordable when the requirements lapsed.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareImmigrants who are in the country without authorization or have temporary legal status have been able to get Colorado driver’s licenses and state IDs for nearly a decade, but now lawmakers want to expand the program to make it even more accessible.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA bill in the Colorado legislature, filed in response to reports that patients were confused when a company they’d never heard of sued them over medical debts, would limit how collection agencies can pursue payment.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
State lawmakers have yet to fund an $11 million effort to reform Colorado courts’ long-troubled competency system, raising alarm among supporters as the end of the legislative session looms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareA bill that would have significantly grown taxes for thousands of short-term rentals in the state was killed in its first committee hearing late Tuesday even after the sponsor attempted to make changes to the legislation.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The Colorado Senate gave initial approval Tuesday to a constitutional amendment that seeks to ultimately allow victims of years-old child sexual abuse to file lawsuits against their abusers and the institutions that protected them.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
City crews on Tuesday morning began shutting down a homeless encampment in Denver’s western Lincoln Park neighborhood due to public safety concerns including three overdose deaths and more than two dozen felony arrests there over the last few months, according to city officials.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Lauren Boebert, a devotee of the Make America Great Again movement and a strong supporter of Donald Trump, shared a campaign stage with Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. in Loveland Thursday as the GOP primary election for the 4th Congressional District draws near.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAt this time last year, Colorado lawmakers were preparing to gut Gov. Jared Polis’ massive and marquee land-use bill that would have reshaped zoning across the state, spurring a stalemate that preceded the proposal’s death.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAll eight of Colorado’s congressional districts will have candidates on the June 25 primary ballot. And in three of those districts — the 3rd, 4th and 5th — the seat is open, providing the ingredients for a more boisterous fight than normal ahead of November’s election.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFresh off a historic vote to advance a ban on many high-powered, semi-automatic guns, the Colorado House approved three more gun-related bills over the weekend — sending them across the Capitol for another round of debate.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareGov. Jared Polis will travel to Costa Rica this week for the 2024 Biennial of the Americas Summit.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareGov. Jared Polis signed “for-cause” eviction protections into law Friday, making Colorado the sixth U.S. state to enact the policy that’s aimed at blunting displacement of vulnerable tenants.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe proposed ban on the sale, transfer and manufacturing of many high-powered, semi-automatic guns in Colorado will face an uphill fight in the state Senate after clearing the House for the first time.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareFirst lady Jill Biden plans to stop in Aurora this weekend to promote the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDenver Fire Department Chief Desmond Fulton said Wednesday that he was following what he believed to be the department’s standards when he claimed hundreds of hours of compensatory time off — and then effectively cashed much of it in for $42,000 in extra pay over the last three years.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareLeah Nylen | Bloomberg News (TNS)
The Justice Department may file an antitrust complaint as soon as next month aimed at forcing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to spin off its Ticketmaster ticketing business, according to three people familiar with the matter.