The Colorado Sun

King Soopers hired line-crossers to keep stores open during strike

As day one of a planned two-week walkout began, about a dozen King Soopers employees were up before dawn on Thursday, pacing in front of their store in Centennial. Some walked the perimeter on the sidewalks as cars passed by. All carried white signs with red lettering asking customers to not patronize their employer.

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Anti-gun Senate Bill 3 loses another Democrat as Sen. Marc Snyder says he will vote no

A Democratic state senator who signed on as a cosponsor of Senate Bill 3, which would ban the manufacture and sale of certain semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and handguns that can accept detachable ammunition magazines, says he will vote against the measure.

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House Bill 1133 aims to raise state’s minimum age to buy firearm ammunition to 21

Colorado is poised to raise the minimum age to buy firearm ammunition to 21 and require that retailers keep bullets in an enclosed display or behind a counter where customers could not access them without assistance. 

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How the Colorado Labor Peace Act came to be and why unions want so desperately to get rid of it

One of the headline bills of Colorado’s 2025 legislative session would rewrite the state’s 80-year-old rule on labor organizing, making it easier for unions to require that all employees at a company pay fees for collective bargaining representation, regardless of whether they are members of the union.

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Nebraska threatens to condemn land in Colorado for a canal to carry away South Platte River water

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser sent a letter to county commissioners in northeastern Colorado earlier this week pledging to defend their rights if Nebraska tries to condemn land for the proposed Perkins County Canal Project.

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HB 1113 would task Colorado cities, counties with limiting amount and type of grass allowed around homes by 2028

Local governments across Colorado would be required by 2028 to enact or update ordinances limiting the amount and type of grass that could be planted around new or redeveloped residential property under a bill before the state legislature this year.

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