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The Cost of Doing Business in Denver: Senseless Policies & Band-Aid Bailouts

In a recent report by Axios Denver, the city’s laughable attempt to salvage struggling businesses from the impact of nearby homeless encampments has laid bare the failures of Denver’s misguided policies on housing immigrants, lax drug regulations, and the acceptance of near-permanent encampments.

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Colorado Legislature Considers Making Alcohol To-Go Sales Permanent for Restaurants

A bill is making its way through the Colorado legislative session, aiming to make alcohol to-go sales at restaurants a permanent fixture. Originally introduced four years ago as a response to pandemic-related dining restrictions, this legislation seeks to support the struggling restaurant industry by allowing them to continue offering alcohol takeout.

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Lawmakers want Colorado employers to display suicide prevention posters at workplaces

Colorado is currently ranked sixth in the nation for suicides, a figure that two state lawmakers are looking to decrease through a bill that would require companies to post prevention education posters at workplaces starting next year.

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Colorado lawmakers put pressure on wildlife officials to help ranchers protect livestock from wolves

After losing more than a dozen livestock and four cattle dogs to wolf attacks, Jackson County rancher Don Gittleson is getting help from lawmakers, who asked wildlife officials to immediately reconsider their decision denying a request to remove the depredating animals from the area. 

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Armstrong: Colorado journalists cheerlead government interference

I worry about those who disparage “the media” without context or specific complaints. Badmouthing journalists can be a way to dodge reporting you don’t like. But there is such a thing as media bias, or at least biases within media. That’s not surprising. Journalists are people, and most people harbor some bias or other. But news publications, I think, have a responsibility to try to counteract rather than feed their reporters’ biases.

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