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Another twist: Judge orders new version of marijuana repeal question be placed on Colorado Springs ballot
The city of Colorado Springs can go ahead with a question to repeal the recent recreational marijuana ballot measure, an El Paso County District Court judge ruled Wednesday afternoon. However, the city must change the wording of what’s on the ballot to avoid confusing voters. District Court Judge Hilary Gurney granted an emergency stay request…
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Denver mayor wants to borrow money to pay for parks, libraries, streets — he didn’t say how much
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston wants voters to approve a borrowing program to pay for new parks, cultural centers and other “investments that bring joy” to Mile High City. He didn’t say how much or identified which exact projects the borrowed money would pay for. Officials said that list will be created and refined — after city…
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Former Fort Carson Iraq war veteran gives up the fight to stay in the U.S.
Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served two tours in Iraq during some of the most intense fighting but later served time for a felony conviction, has become a casualty of a different kind of war. At an immigration hearing Wednesday morning, he told Assistant Immigration Judge…
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Colorado justices debate what to do with medical records of driver following fatal Custer County crash
The Colorado Supreme Court waded into a contentious dispute on Wednesday about how trial judges should decide whether a litigant’s medical records are confidential and what to do with other evidence that spawns from the private information. Complicating matters, many details about the appeal are shielded from public view due to the debate over confidentiality.…
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Colorado justices consider 33-year-old analogy’s impact on community corrections sentences
The Colorado Supreme Court pondered an unusual question on Wednesday: When a previous decision relied on an analogy, but the circumstances of the analogy have since changed, is the prior decision still valid? Ryan Wallace Bonde’s appeal to the Supreme Court explores whether Bonde’s time in non-residential community corrections can be deducted from the prison…
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40th Young Dancers Competition to take place next week | NONPROFIT REGISTER
DENVER BALLET GUILD Littleton News: Two hundred young dancers will participate in the Denver Ballet Guild’s 40th Young Dancers Competition, an event to be held Feb. 21-23 at the Mapleton Performing Arts Center, 7480 N. Broadway, Denver. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); The competition committee, along with artistic directors Tracy Jones and Francisco Estevez, have mapped out…
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$570 million frozen: Here’s the list of Colorado programs officials say are impacted following Trump’s freeze
The bulk of the Colorado programs whose funding — according to local officials — remained inaccessible as of a few days ago deal with energy, “climate resilience” and electric vehicle infrastructure. At $156 million, the single biggest spending item has been earmarked for expanding solar energy. The funding amount cited by Gov. Jared Polis and other officials…
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Trump picks Colorado oil and gas industry advocate Kathleen Sgamma to run Bureau of Land Management
President Donald Trump on Wednesday named Kathleen Sgamma, the longtime president of a Colorado-based oil and gas advocacy organization, to head the Bureau of Land Management, the agency that manages federal lands and oversees the federal government’s fossil fuel leasing program. Sgamma’s nomination follows Trump’s vow to “unleash” domestic energy production, in part by loosening…
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RFK Jr. on glidepath to become HHS secretary after clearing first Senate vote
The Senate voted Wednesday to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary, teeing him up for confirmation Thursday morning. The GOP-controlled chamber voted along party lines, 53-47, on a procedural move to end debate. Once on shaky ground with several Republicans over his history of vaccine skepticism…
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MTG mocked by House Democrat with Musk picture during first DOGE panel
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) mocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s (R-GA) use of nude images of Hunter Biden by offering up a photo of Elon Musk as a “dick pic” during the first House DOGE subcommittee hearing. The subcommittee under the House Oversight Committee, chaired by Greene, is designed to “fight the war on waste shoulder…