The Colorado Sun

A new — and much gentler — property tax hike is proposed for Colorado short-term rental properties

A proposed property tax hike on Colorado short-term rental owners would only kick in for people with three or more homes under new legislation proposed as a gentler alternative to a further-reaching measure also being debated at the state Capitol this year. 

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Parents of medically fragile kids can’t find nurses because the pay is so low. They want Colorado lawmakers to step in. 

Nurses willing to care for medically fragile children and adults — including patients who use feeding tubes, can’t walk or speak, and rarely leave their homes — are hard to find in Colorado. 

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Cory Gardner reenters Colorado political conversation to make endorsement in crowded 4th Congressional District race

Cory Gardner reentered Colorado’s political conversation Wednesday to endorse former state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg in the crowded Republican primary in the state’s 4th Congressional District, a race that includes U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert. 

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State funding could be withheld from Colorado cities that don’t tie housing to transit under new affordability push 

Colorado Democrats on Tuesday introduced a bill that would send millions of dollars to cities that agree to encourage denser housing near transit — and withhold state highway funding from those that don’t.

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Beef, quality-stamped by an in-person grader, may soon be graded by someone looking at a picture

In the old days, if a small or midsize beef processor wanted to get the most out of their highest-quality meat, they had to do as the big processors do: pay a living, breathing human sometimes upward of $114 an hour to travel to their plant, often out in the boonies, and grade the meat ranchers sold them after seeing it in person.

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