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Soper: We are making progress on protecting the dead
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Soper: We are making progress on protecting the dead

By Rep. Matt Soper | The Western Slope Statesman As many of you may know, I played a critical role in the Sunset Mesa Trial. After seeing all the hurt caused by Sunset Mesa, I took action. This included raising awareness through multiple documentaries, news interviews, and bringing legislation. I passed two bills that protect the loved ones we have lost. READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT THE WESTERN SLOPE STATESMAN
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Pharmaceutical company Amgen sues Colorado over price-setting prescription drug board
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Pharmaceutical company Amgen sues Colorado over price-setting prescription drug board

By John Ingold | The Colorado Sun Amgen, the multinational pharmaceutical company that makes the blockbuster arthritis drug Enbrel, has sued Colorado over a state board’s efforts to possibly cap the price of the drug. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Denver, Amgen argues that the actions of Colorado’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board are unconstitutional because they conflict with federal laws and because they violate rights to due process. The company is seeking not just to overturn the board’s recent decisions about Enbrel but also to strike down major parts of the law creating the board. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Everything you need to know about CD4’s special election to replace Ken Buck
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Everything you need to know about CD4’s special election to replace Ken Buck

By Tori Ganahl | Rocky Mountain Voice Colorado's Congressional District 4 is poised for a political showdown as the race to replace outgoing Representative Ken Buck heats up, especially since March 22nd was his last day. Here's what you need to know about this critical special election to replace Buck until the actual election happens in November: With 11 Republican candidates and five Democrats vying for the primary ballot, and one Libertarian candidate for the general election, the field is crowded and competitive. Buck's unexpected resignation, accelerated from his previously announced departure at the end of his term in January 2025, has triggered a special election ordered by Governor Jared Polis. This election, scheduled for June 25, coincides with Colorado's prima...
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Republican state chair Dave Williams wins top-line in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District primary
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Republican state chair Dave Williams wins top-line in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District primary

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics Dave Williams, the chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, won top-line designation Saturday in the GOP's 5th Congressional District primary amid complaints the former state lawmaker has used party resources to promote his campaign and bash a primary opponent. Williams will face at least one other candidate in the June 25 primary for the seat held by retiring U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, the Colorado Springs Republican who announced at the beginning of the year that he wouldn't seek a ninth term representing the heavily Republican district. Republican Jeff Crank, a podcaster and executive with the Koch network's Americans for Prosperity, qualified for the primary ballot by petition this week, while state Sen. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Spr...
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This Colorado rancher sees a world where conservation can turn a profit
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This Colorado rancher sees a world where conservation can turn a profit

By Tracy Ross | Colorado Sun Their hoofprints fan out in four directions but the elk that overwinter here have scattered. The snow is changing to ice and a brisk wind scours the ground. Maybe the gusts chased them off. Or a memory, stored deep in their DNA, of an elk caught in a barbed wire fence with a coyote eating it. That’s a slow, horrifying death, even though it’s just nature at work. Except it isn’t, says Dave Gottenborg, because of the fence.  Dave and his wife, Jean, bought the 3,000-acre Eagle Rock Ranch in Park County in 2012. But when they introduce themselves, they say they “manage” it.  That’s because Dave doesn’t like the idea of “owning” ground that’s been around millions of years longer than he has. In fact, he just worked with Colorado State University’...
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Libertarian Party notes growth in relevancy, influence as state convention opens
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Libertarian Party notes growth in relevancy, influence as state convention opens

By BRIAN PORTER | The Rocky Mountain Voice COLORADO SPRINGS -- The relevancy of the Colorado Libertarian Party has advanced in the past year in several measurable ways, State Chairwoman Hannah Goodman said as she opened the party's annual state convention here Saturday. One of those measurements have been increased media exposure, she said, including on local TV programming. "We have had more press exposure than in a long time," she said. "There's no secret we have all been held hostage by the Democratic majority. What we sought to do is pressure both [major] parties to run solid liberty candidates." The intent, Goodman says, is to be a disruptor and run stonger candidates which could pull greater percentages of votes in general elections."We have become incredibly relevant," G...
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Stacking the deck: Polis appointment cancels out election for District Attorney
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Stacking the deck: Polis appointment cancels out election for District Attorney

Source: Colorado Peak Politics It’s not just the state legislature that Democrats are packing with candidates selected by party insiders instead of voters. Now it looks like Gov. Polis is trying to stack the judiciary in the same manner — by filling a sudden vacancy with his own appointee and scaring off candidates who don’t have the money to run against a pseudo incumbent just a few months later. District Attorney Christian Champagne of the 6th Judicial District that serves La Plata, Archuleta, and San Juan Counties, bailed on his job one year before his term-limited seat left him unemployed and landed a job with the Democrat state attorney’s general office. That gave Polis the authority to fill Champagne’s term in the middle of a campaign between Jason Eley and Sean Murray to...
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Colorado businesses responsible for funding statewide recycling program left in the dark, advocates say
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Colorado businesses responsible for funding statewide recycling program left in the dark, advocates say

Business tax could be as much as $200,000 annually By Marissa Ventrelli | Colorado Politics As Colorado initiates the rollout of a statewide recycling program, business advocates are warning lawmakers that companies are facing hefty fees they may not be aware of and implementing the initiative may not be realistic heading into 2026, not to mention its price tag amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.   House Bill 22-1355, signed into law in June 2022, tasked the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment with selecting a nonprofit organization to oversee the recycling initiative, funded through annual dues from producers of packaging materials and paper products. Producers are not required to pay those dues until 2026, and their advocates are uncertain...
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Colorado environmental groups file three ballot measures to limit oil and gas industry 
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Colorado environmental groups file three ballot measures to limit oil and gas industry 

By Michael Booth | Colorado Sun The truce is off. Let the negotiations begin again. Leading Colorado environmental groups filed language Thursday for three sweeping ballot measures aimed at limiting the oil and gas industry in the state, openly declaring them a blocking effort to as many as a half-dozen equally sweeping proposals supported by oil interests.  The potential ballot battle, alongside a number of anti-oil and gas bills still under debate in the legislature this year, is a renewal of the election year games of chicken from 2018, 2020 and 2022. In some past elections, environmental groups and oil and gas representatives agreed to take competing measures off the table so long as it was a bilateral disarmament. READ THE FULL STORY IN THE COLORADO SUN
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Colorado panel finalizes budget plan that boosts K-12, higher education and health care. Here’s what’s in it.
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Colorado panel finalizes budget plan that boosts K-12, higher education and health care. Here’s what’s in it.

By Brian Eason | Colorado Sun Colorado’s state budget panel early Friday morning approved a spending plan for next fiscal year that would invest heavily in state workers and medical services, eliminate Colorado’s K-12 funding shortfall and limit college tuition increases to 3% for in-state students. But it took a lot of cutting — and some creative accounting maneuvers — to get there. Facing a potential $170 million shortfall at the start of the week, lawmakers on the Joint Budget Committee dipped deeply into various state cash funds in order to balance the budget, pulling money out of a number of programs to cover the spending gap. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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