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Wolverines, protecting homeowners from construction flaws, teen anti-overdose activists and more from the Colorado legislature this week

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Wolverines, protecting homeowners from construction flaws, teen anti-overdose activists and more from the Colorado legislature this week

Colorado lawmakers target another $5 million for Denver Health amid fears of hospital’s “death spiral” A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers is again moving to direct a special $5 million infusion to Denver Health amid rising concerns about the hospital’s financial security and fears of a potential descent into a “death spiral.” Members of the … Read more

Bills allowing easier use of preferred names, end of the education funding gap and more from the Colorado legislature this week – The Denver Post

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Bills allowing easier use of preferred names, end of the education funding gap and more from the Colorado legislature this week – The Denver Post

Colorado House advances two name-change bills after contentious debate and anti-transgender rhetoric Two bills allowing transgender and nonbinary Coloradans to more easily use their preferred names cleared the House on Friday after anti-transgender rhetoric from Republican lawmakers spread debate and votes over multiple days. The two Democrat-backed measures — HB24-1071 and HB24-1039 — have led … Read more

Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s U.S. elections

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Alabama IVF ruling highlights importance of state supreme court races in this year’s U.S. elections

CHICAGO — The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples seeking to have families through fertility treatments. It also has turned the spotlight on the importance of institutions that are poised to play a central in this year’s elections: … Read more

U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo unveils migrant bills that would help Denver

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U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo unveils migrant bills that would help Denver

U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo of Colorado unveiled a package of migrant-related bills in the House Thursday that aim to break a partisan logjam on immigration reform and would assist cities like Denver that have shouldered unforeseen costs. The congresswoman, who represents Colorado’s most heavily Latino congressional district, said her aim is to help interior cities … Read more

Housing measures, gender-identity names bills considered by legislature this week

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Housing measures, gender-identity names bills considered by legislature this week

Colorado lawmakers are getting into the meat of the legislative session as we near the March midpoint of the 120-day session, and committees are in full swing. Bills are passing their first chambers, too, and crossing the hall. The first of this year’s land-use bills — a measure to ban occupancy limits — has already … Read more

ICE arrests 19 in Colorado during national sex offender operation targeting immigrants for deportation

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ICE arrests 19 in Colorado during national sex offender operation targeting immigrants for deportation

Early on a mid-February morning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in unmarked vehicles gathered in an empty parking lot in Denver, nearly a quarter mile from the workplace of a man they had been tracking. In a briefing, the officers described how they planned to arrest the 25-year-old, who was born in Mexico, as … Read more

Bills in Colorado legislature take aim at poor Front Range air quality

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Bills in Colorado legislature take aim at poor Front Range air quality

Democratic state legislators on Thursday rolled out an ambitious suite of bills aimed at improving the Front Range’s air quality — among the worst in the nation — by taking specific aim at the oil and gas industry. The three bills will focus on curbing toxic emissions from oil and gas drilling sites by changing … Read more

What is happening at the Republican National Committee and could Lara Trump become its co-chair?

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What is happening at the Republican National Committee and could Lara Trump become its co-chair?

NEW YORK — Donald Trump is calling for a shakeup at the highest levels of the Republican National Committee. And party leaders are taking it very seriously. To be clear, this is not normal. Trump has yet to secure the GOP’s presidential nomination and just last week, he and current Chair Ronna McDaniel privately agreed … Read more

Denver police conduct is at center of city’s spiking lawsuit bills

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Denver police conduct is at center of city’s spiking lawsuit bills

All things considered, Lindsay Minter feels lucky. Lindsay Minter in Aurora on Aug. 19, 2020. (Photo by Eli Imadali/Special to The Denver Post) She only needed to have a tooth pulled after she was hit in the face with a projectile from a rubber ball grenade flung in her direction by an unidentified Denver police … Read more

Judge rejects Colorado GOP challenge of unaffiliated voters in primary

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Judge rejects Colorado GOP challenge of unaffiliated voters in primary

Colorado’s unaffiliated voters can continue to participate in Republican primary elections, a federal judge ruled Friday, in the latest blow to the state GOP’s attempts to close its races to independents. The ruling comes more than five months after the Colorado Republican Party filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate Proposition 108, the 2016 ballot measure … Read more