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The Colorado legislature’s 2024 session is set to end Wednesday night, and the House and Senate convened for a final day of debate and votes to wrap up bills on a number of priorities, including property tax reform and land-use policy changes that will affect local governments. This story will be updated throughout the day. Updated at 10:08 a.m.: The much-discussed and much-rewritten bill to reform the Regional Transportation District was unveiled this session with a roar — maligned by critics but backed by supporters as a needed rework of metro Denver’s transit agency. It died this week with barely a whimper, blinking out on the Senate’s calendar in the final days. House Bill 1447 passed the House late last week, after it had been stripped of its most controversial provisions, including a plan to overhaul RTD’s elected board and governance.

The Colorado legislature is poised to pass a suite of marquee land-use reform measures that promise to reshape housing development along the Front Range, delivering a significant win to Gov. Jared Polis and legislative Democrats a year after their first reform attempt collapsed. On Tuesday, the penultimate day of the legislative session, the Senate passed House Bill 1313.

From the outside, the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab’s exhibit space in downtown Denver has sat quiet for more than four years. But behind the scenes, the nonprofit institute, known as The CELL, has been at work updating its offerings to provide an interactive experience geared toward current security threats. The exhibit is focused on the factors that drive domestic and international terrorism and the impact of those threats on global security — along with educating visitors on what everyday people can do to prevent terrorist acts in their communities. This week, the results of those efforts will be unveiled when The CELL, 99 W.

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