Denver Post: Politics

WASHINGTON — The House is voting Friday on legislation aimed at guaranteeing a woman’s right to an abortion, an effort by House Democrats to circumvent a new Texas law that has placed that access under threat.

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office asked a Mesa County District Court judge again this week to officially keep county Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters from overseeing the November election and instead appoint former Secretary of State Wayne Williams.

With the events business slowly crawling out of its COVID-19 crater, the first day of fall was about looking ahead at the Colorado Convention Center, where construction on the long-planned 80,000-square-foot rooftop ballroom is finally underway.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert paid rent and utility bills with campaign funds in violation of federal campaign finance laws, new filings with the Federal Election Commision show.
The filings, submitted to the FEC on Tuesday, also indicate that Boebert reimbursed her campaign for the $6,650 worth of payments.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON — Democratic congressional leaders backed by the White House announced Monday they would push ahead with a vote to fund the government and suspend the debt limit, all but daring Republicans who say they will vote against it despite the risk of a fiscal crisis.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

WASHINGTON — Dental work for seniors on Medicare. An end to sky’s-the-limit pricing on prescription drugs. New options for long-term care at home. Coverage for low-income people locked out of Medicaid by ideological battles.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden entered the White House promising to stop the twin health and economic crises caused by COVID-19, but $1.9 trillion and countless initiatives later he’s confronting the limits of what Washington can achieve when some state and local governments are unwilling or unable to step up.

Colorado government workers are underpaid compared to the private sector, state data shows. And those relative low wages and thousands of unfilled positions leave the state ill-equipped to meet all many demands, they allege.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Thirteen days before its final deadline, Colorado’s congressional redistricting panel is coalescing around a Democratic commissioner’s plan for redrawing U.S. House districts.

The COVID-19 pandemic is not over, but Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s proposed budget for 2022 indicates optimism about how the city is recovering from the health and economic crisis.
Hancock and his staff projected Wednesday there will be $1.485 billion in the general fund revenue to tap into 2022.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share