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Colorado AG Weiser sues Mesa County deputy for helping ICE make arrest
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Colorado AG Weiser sues Mesa County deputy for helping ICE make arrest

By Colleen Slevin | Fox31 DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Democratic attorney general on Tuesday sued a sheriff’s deputy for allegedly helping federal immigration agents find and arrest a college student who had an expired visa. Attorney General Phil Weiser also disclosed that his office is investigating whether other law enforcement officers on a regional drug task force the deputy worked on have been sharing information to help federal agents make immigration arrests in violation of state law limiting cooperation in immigration enforcement. The federal government has sued Colorado over such laws. On June 5, Mesa County Deputy Alexander Zwinck allegedly shared the driver’s license, vehicle registration and insurance information of the 19-year-old nursing student in a Signal chat us...
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Colorado GOP elects Holtorf as vice chair: ‘We’re standing at a crossroads’
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Colorado GOP elects Holtorf as vice chair: ‘We’re standing at a crossroads’

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics A sharply divided Colorado Republican Party elected former House Minority Whip Richard Holtorf to fill the state GOP's vacant vice chair position Monday night during an online meeting that laid bare ongoing disputes that have consumed the state party for more than a year. Roughly 400 Republican state central committee members cast their votes for the party's No. 2 job nearly two hours into a special meeting held on the Zoom teleconference platform to replace Darrel Phelan, the state GOP's previous vice chair, who attributed his abrupt resignation last month to his frustration over state chair Brita Horn's refusal to let him help run the party. Horn, Phelan and Russ Andrews, the state party secretary, won election to their po...
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Boebert Delivers Big for Small Colorado Towns with ZIP Code Bill
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Boebert Delivers Big for Small Colorado Towns with ZIP Code Bill

By Austen Erblat | CBS News A bill that aims to help smaller cities and towns collect more local revenue has passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives and could soon go to the president's desk to be signed into law. The legislation, sponsored by U.S. Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, whose district includes a large swath of Northern Colorado and the Eastern Plains, would create unique ZIP codes for 15 communities across the state, as well as dozens more in other states. All eight members of Colorado's Congressional delegation -- four Democrats and four Republicans -- all voted in favor of the bill. Colorado's Democrats joined 71 others in Congress to bring the final vote on the bill to 278-121, with 31 members of Congress not voting on the bill. One town that could benefit ...
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Polis Push for Legacy Bridge Meets Overwhelming Public Backlash
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Polis Push for Legacy Bridge Meets Overwhelming Public Backlash

By Heather Willard | KDVR Fox 31 DENVER (KDVR) — A proposed pedestrian bridge that would have connected Civic Center Park to the base of the Colorado Capitol building in celebration of Colorado’s 150th anniversary will not be built after the governor’s office received overwhelming results in a survey. According to the Colorado Governor’s Office, almost 94% of respondents (over 82,000 votes) were against the initiative. The results showed that over 3,000 voters (3.8%) were in favor of the project, while another 2,043 people (2.3%) voted “maybe” on the bridge. The survey was open through midnight Monday. The project has drawn criticism from numerous groups, including veterans who said their monuments and memorials where the bridge would be located would be “desecrated” by the projec...
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Ganahl: Big wins, bigger fights—Colorado conservatives are gaining ground
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Ganahl: Big wins, bigger fights—Colorado conservatives are gaining ground

By Heidi Ganahl | Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice Grassroots momentum is building—but the Left isn’t backing down We’ve been in the trenches for a long time here in Colorado. For years, it’s felt like one loss after another—on parental rights, on fiscal responsibility, on election integrity. But something has shifted. In this week’s episode of Unleashed, I talk about the wins we’re finally starting to see—and why they matter more than ever. 🎙️ Listen here, and watch on YouTube or Rumble. The Tide Is Turning Across the state, local conservatives are stepping up and taking ground: We’re electing bold, principled leaders to county parties. Grassroots voices are winning school board and city council seats. Citizen journalists are breaking stories the mainstream med...
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Colorado’s $1 Billion Road Gap Pushes Funding Fight to the Ballot
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Colorado’s $1 Billion Road Gap Pushes Funding Fight to the Ballot

By Marissa Ventrelli | The Gazette A pair of measures proposing a new way to provide additional funding for Colorado's roads, bridges and highways could be headed to the ballot next November. The initiatives, backed by retired contractor Donald Hanneman and retired tech executive Michael Hancock, would require all state revenue from sales and use taxes, excise taxes, tolls, and fees related to vehicles, fuel, rideshares and retail deliveries, along with a percentage of sales tax, dedicated exclusively toward the maintenance, operation and expansion of the state's roads. Currently, a portion of the state's transportation-related revenue is allocated to the legislature's general fund. Enterprise fees, such as those from vehicle rentals and the congestion impact fee, are earmarked...
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Wolf Program Hits $8 Million as Critics Ask Who Really Benefits
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Wolf Program Hits $8 Million as Critics Ask Who Really Benefits

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics Colorado has now spent more than $8 million over five years on the wolf restoration program, according to a presentation made at Thursday's Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting in Grand Junction. Justin Rutter, the assistant director for financial and capital services at Colorado Parks and Wildlife, also addressed the apparent discrepancy between the General Assembly's Blue Book estimate of the annual program cost, which is around $800,000. He noted a caveat in the Blue Book language around the program's cost, one that said, "actual state spending will depend on the details of the plan," developed by the commission, and the cost to compensate for livestock losses caused by wolves. Those additional costs since the ballot measure...
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Colorado Falls to Bottom Ten in School Safety Despite High Spending
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Colorado Falls to Bottom Ten in School Safety Despite High Spending

By Brooke Williams | KDVR Fox 31 DENVER (KDVR) — While Colorado has some of the best quality of education opportunities in public schools of any state in the U.S., the Centennial State ranks among the worst when it comes to safety in education, according to a new report. Researchers from the personal finance website WalletHub analyzed public education in each state and the District of Columbia, looking at things like graduation rates and test scores as well as accessibility and safety, to determine which states are the best for public education. Overall, East Coast states like Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Jersey were found to be the best places for public education, according to the study. Colorado ranked just below the top half at No. 28 overall. However, the report also...
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Gaines: Colorado’s unelected boards hold the real power—and it’s hurting rural counties
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Gaines: Colorado’s unelected boards hold the real power—and it’s hurting rural counties

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project Regulatory Capture and Colorado's Unelected Boards I wrote a bit back (see the first link below) about how our state is increasingly turfing what ought to be legislative control to a series of unelected boards, how legislative laziness has effectively handed over control of our state to them.Rulemaking and regulation might make things more efficient, it might enable higher policy output with less time, but it is not without cost. It's one of those costs I want to cover today: policy by unelected board opens us up to control, not by the people, but by industry and (increasingly in Colorado) advocates.This is due to cronyism in board appointments and also what might loosely be termed a form of "regulatory capture" (if you wil...
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Colorado Supreme Court opinions shrink in volume but stir policy debate
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Colorado Supreme Court opinions shrink in volume but stir policy debate

By Michael Karlik | Denver Gazette Justice Richard Gabriel outpaced his peers by far in the volume of written opinions and his frequency in dissent The Colorado Supreme Court's most visible decision of its recently concluded term may actually be the one it made five years ago. In 2020, with the retirement of then-Chief Justice Nathan B. Coats, the court's other members decided to switch to a rotational method of filling the seat, with the judicial branch's top job term-limited to approximately three years. Last summer, the first rotation occurred, with Justice Brian D. Boatright stepping down and Chief Justice Monica M. Márquez stepping in. Since then, the "Márquez court" has made big moves in key areas. It decided a bundle of five appeals about crim...
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