In last year’s legislative session there were 705 bills introduced, with 525 passed. I’ve not seen anything official, but the rumors I have heard have it that there are currently 200 bills in the queue for the 75th Legislature this year, with a prediction that the total number of bills could hit 600 to 700 by May.
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A CORA request came back recently (part of digging into a reader question) that illustrates the importance of paying attention to what your legislature is doing — in particular, paying attention to those seemingly-unimportant, unsexy bills.
A reader was kind enough to make a directory of legislators in an Excel Spreadsheet. It’s linked below and feel free to make a local copy (and share).
Gaines: A legislative directory to reach anyone in the 75th session Read More »
You may not have known this before, but you have the ability to accuse someone in this state of a campaign finance law violation.Â
Gaines: You, too, can file a campaign finance complaint against someone Read More »
Whether you run cattle on the Western Slope of Colorado or you grow forage on the Plains, there are precious few people in Colorado in Production Ag, while there seems a never-ending list of advocates — paid, volunteer, and sometimes from out of state — who are speaking up in support of things that either have the potential to harm producers or that will most assuredly harm them.
Gaines: The people doing ag in this state need to speak up for each other Read More »
Sage Pointe, a neighborhood just outside of Sterling, Colo., in Logan County, might have a Metro District coming.
Gaines: Educate yourself, Logan County, a Metro District may be coming Read More »
Maintaining a healthy skepticism can be a challenge.Â
So many things these days are there to monetize your attention, and all too often the people generating the eye-catching content on social media (and sometimes in regular media) are none too picky about grabbing you without exaggerating or, sadly, making things up.
The recent election results for Proposition KK (the state excise tax on guns and ammunition) were disappointing, but not altogether a surprise.Â
Wanting to support your community and get civically engaged? Do you also like warm cookies? I suppose the Venn Diagram for these two things would likely show a lot of overlap. I’m right there in the middle anyway.
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Realigning the main drag through Sterling left a couple parcels of land orphaned. It wasn’t necessarily that they looked worse than they did before — one of them was a former trailer park where the only vestiges of its former life were bare concrete pads with socketless meter boxes poking up here and there. The highway realignment didn’t make them ugly, it made them uglier: it left a bit of land whose shape wouldn’t be too conducive to anything useful. Yet another empty patch of dirt on my daily commute.
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