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Colorado’s wolf reintroduction has cost taxpayers double what they expected when they voted to approve it

Approved, Outdoor Life, State / November 5, 2024 / Wolves

Bringing wolves back to Colorado has cost the state at least $4.8 million so far, according to a new financial analysis by The Denver Post. This is within the total amount appropriated by lawmakers, the Post reports. But it’s more than double the estimate that was given to Colorado voters during the 2020 election, when voters narrowly passed a ballot measure initiating wolf reintroduction by a margin of less than 1 percent.

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Colorado state government spending increases outpaced inflation, report says

Approved, State, The Center Square / November 5, 2024 / State government

Colorado has vastly grown its government spending over the past 20 years, according to a new report from Common Sense Institute.

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Entering Election Day, 62% of ballots had been cast, with Democrat women holding a 104,241 lead over GOP women

Approved, Rocky Mountain Voice, State / November 5, 2024 / Elections

More than a third of all active Colorado voters had not cast a ballot entering Election Day, a report from the secretary of state’s office reads.

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An open letter to voters from Mesa County Clerk Bobbie Gross

Approved, Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice, State / November 5, 2024 / Bobbie Gross, Commentary, Elections

As your Mesa County clerk & recorder, I am deeply committed to the transparency, security, and integrity of our elections. I want to address a recent oversight by the secretary of state’s office, which inadvertently published BIOS passwords — one of the many layers that protect our voting equipment.

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It’s Election Day in Colorado. Here’s detail on how to vote in-person or via drop box

Rocky Mountain Voice, Approved, State / November 5, 2024 / Elections

Election Day has finally arrived in Colorado and across the country, and gone is the opportunity to cast a ballot by mail.

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Jeff Lindsey has been named to 11th Judicial District DA post following disbarment of Linda Stanley

Rocky Mountain Voice, Approved, State / November 5, 2024 / 11th Judicial District, Jeff Lindsey

Jeff Lindsey has been named the acting district attorney for the 11th Judicial District by co-Chief Judge Amanda Hunter. He was sworn in Friday.

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‘Unprecedented’ mistake by Secretary Griswold calls for unprecedented ruling, Libertarian Party argues in District Court

Approved, Rocky Mountain Voice, State / November 4, 2024 / Courts, Elections, Jena Griswold, Libertarian Party

Some daylight may have been breathed Monday afternoon into what some have called the largest coverup in the history of Colorado’s mail-in balloting era.

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Three senior judges in Colorado still haven’t filed personal financial disclosures with state

Approved, coloradopolitics.com, State / November 4, 2024 / Courts, Elections

Just months after Colorado officials reminded dozens of senior judges they were required by law to annually file personal financial disclosure statements with the Secretary of State’s Office — and 14 months after it was exposed that nearly none of them had — three still have not complied, The Denver Gazette has found.

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