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EDITORIAL: The urgent need for more school choice in Colorado
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EDITORIAL: The urgent need for more school choice in Colorado

By The Gazette Editorial Board | SOURCE: THE GAZETTE The only downside to school choice in our state? There isn’t enough of it. It’s the right prescription for what ails Colorado’s public schools — an inoculation against the plague of malaise and abysmal performance at too many schools in too many communities. It’s why we salute the 14th annual National School Choice Week, which kicked off Sunday and runs through Saturday in Colorado and across the rest of the country. It’s a week in which school choice’s diverse advocates and supporters not only raise the movement’s profile for state policymakers but also reach out to parents to help them take advantage of the education options available to them. The observance, organized by the National School Choice Awareness Foundation, wil...
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Colorado property taxes may increase 25%
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Colorado property taxes may increase 25%

By Noah Festenstein | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS Despite Gov. Jared Polis approving several property tax relief bills after the failure of Proposition HH, Colorado homeowners may still pay an average of 25% more in property tax increases, according to an analysis by the Common Sense Institute. Proposition HH intended to use the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights surplus revenue – normally money refunded to taxpayers – to reduce property taxes, fund school districts, water districts, fire districts, ambulance and hospital districts and other local governments. Voters in November did not support the tax relief measure, which was estimated to save the average homeowner $1,200 in the next three years. Following Proposition HH's defeat, Polis held a special legislative session to discuss alte...
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Colorado justices hear cases, judicial officials put on suspension
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Colorado justices hear cases, judicial officials put on suspension

By Michael Karlik | SOURCE: COLORADO POLITICS Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics' roundup of news from the third branch of government. The Colorado Supreme Court heard oral arguments in six cases last week, while a pair of judicial officials were placed on suspension under mysterious circumstances. Oral argument week •  In an unusual case submitted by the federal appeals court based in Denver, the justices are set to give their opinion about whether Colorado's sex offender law, when applied to juveniles, takes account of the factors the U.S. Supreme Court has said are relevant to preventing the imposition of cruel and unusual punishment. READ FULL ARTICLE ON COLORADOPOLITICS.COM
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Paws are on the Ground
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Paws are on the Ground

Proposition 114 has been fulfilled after 3 years of strife. Here's how it happened. By Rep. Matthew Soper | SOURCE: The Western Slope Statesman Proposition 114 puts in statute that gray wolves should be reintroduced “on designated land west of the continental divide” by December 31st, 2023. These “designated lands west of the continental divide” are what we colloquially refer to as the Western Slope of Colorado. The purpose of the proposition, according to the environmentalists, is to “restore balance” to Colorado’s ecosystems. For those of us living on the West Slope, it means an assault on our way of life by jeopardizing our ranching, hunting/guiding, tourism, and outdoor recreation economies. Colorado’s reintroduction effort followed reintroduction efforts b...
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Weekly Roundup: Denver Health Immigrant Crisis, Property Taxes Increasing by 25%, Arapahoe County Commissioners Want to Eliminate TABOR
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Weekly Roundup: Denver Health Immigrant Crisis, Property Taxes Increasing by 25%, Arapahoe County Commissioners Want to Eliminate TABOR

By Brandon Wark | SOURCE: FREE STATE COLORADO This week, we look at the crisis at Denver Health, public school enrollment, home permitting delays, Arapahoe County tax protections under threat, the split in the Democratic House Caucus, the Ouray newspaper theft, and look at an event hosted by the Colorado Union of Taxpayers this week! Links to Articles: New immigrants pose ‘difficult dilemma’ as Denver Health sees thousands of unpaid medical visits: https://denvergazette.com/news/new-immigrants-pose-difficult-dilemma-as-denver-health-sees-700-increase-in-patients/article_93bbba78-b4b0-11ee-83bf-93150c61a814.html Colorado’s public school enrollment hits lowest level in a decade: https://www.denverpost.com/2024/01/17/colorado-public-school-enrollment-2023/ Del...
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Now Polis says fix the border, as hospital struggles under 22,000 migrant visits
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Now Polis says fix the border, as hospital struggles under 22,000 migrant visits

SOURCE: COLORADO PEAK POLITICS Colorado hospitals are begging for a federal bailout to pay for the 20,000-emergency room, childbirth, dental and primary care visits last year from the flood of migrants taking advantage of President Biden’s open border policy. The doctor in charge of government relations at Denver Health told Fox News the country needs orderly migration at the border instead of the come-one-come-all policy that is overwhelming the country’s infrastructure. Ha! Just kidding!  Dr. Steve Federico asked for more taxpayer dollars to fund the unchecked migration and keep ‘em coming! “We absolutely need additional public support to help provide health care to our safety net hospitals such as Denver Health,” Federico told “The Ingraham Angle” Thursday...
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Colorado Lawmakers to Consider Pro-Nuclear Bill
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Colorado Lawmakers to Consider Pro-Nuclear Bill

By Jake Fogleman | SOURCE: INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE Colorado lawmakers are set to consider their first nuclear energy bill of the 2024 legislative session later this week. SB24-039, dubbed “Nuclear Energy as a Clean Energy Resource,” is scheduled to go before the Senate Transportation and Energy Committee for first reading on Wednesday. The bill seeks to level the playing field for carbon-free energy technologies under state law by including nuclear energy in the statutory definition of “clean energy.” Nuclear is presently excluded by name. According to the text of the measure: The statutory definition of ‘clean energy’ in current law determines which energy projects are eligible for clean energy project financing at the county and city and county level. The statu...
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Top Republican in Colorado House narrowly survives vote to remove him following revelation about his 2022 DUI arrest
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Top Republican in Colorado House narrowly survives vote to remove him following revelation about his 2022 DUI arrest

By Brian Eason and Jesse Paul | SOURCE: THE COLORADO SUN Colorado House Minority Leader Mike Lynch on Monday narrowly survived a vote to remove him as the leader of the chamber’s 19-member Republican caucus after it was made public last week that he was arrested in 2022 on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and possessing a gun while intoxicated. The vote of no confidence was split 9-9, with one lawmaker absent and Lynch voting to keep his post. In ties, the vote fails. During the tense caucus meeting in a Capitol committee room, Lynch rejected calls from some members of his caucus to resign his post. The Wellington lawmaker defended his tenure, saying the caucus has had more cohesion under his leadership than it had in the past. “If I believed that this event,...
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Colorado officials thought they had 3 more years to spend $1.5B in federal COVID aid. They have 11 months.
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Colorado officials thought they had 3 more years to spend $1.5B in federal COVID aid. They have 11 months.

By Brian Eason | SOURCE: THE COLORADO SUN Colorado state budget writers are in a race against the clock to spend $1.5 billion in leftover federal pandemic aid before the end of 2024 thanks to new guidance from the U.S. Treasury Department. The deadline is two full years sooner than state lawmakers and Polis administration officials had expected. That has set off a mad scramble to rewrite the budget for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, to allow the state to spend federal American Rescue Plan Act dollars faster than lawmakers intended. The time crunch arose from shifting guidance from federal officials on how they define “obligated,” a term that doesn’t exist in state law. Federal law has long required ARPA recipients to “obligate” all of their funding by th...
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How Colorado voters are reacting to Lauren Boebert’s congressional district swap
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How Colorado voters are reacting to Lauren Boebert’s congressional district swap

By Jesse Bedayn, The Associated Press/Report for America | SOURCE: THE COLORADO SUN LAST CHANCE — Fleeing a tough reelection bid in the district where she lives, Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert is moving from the mountains to the plains, in the hopes of finding conservative pastures green enough to salvage her place in Congress. To win, she’ll have to convince a new swath of voters that her brand of white-hot, far-right political activism — built on divisive one-liners and partisan ferocity in the U.S. House — is more needed in Washington than the home-grown Republicans she now faces in the primary. While Boebert’s new district voted for President Donald Trump by a nearly 20 percentage point margin in 2020, more than double the margin in her old district, and some Republic...
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