Author: Chris Osher
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Cannabis overhaul introduced in Colorado Senate
Colorado lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a measure that, if approved, would place a ballot proposal before voters this fall that contains changes backers say would improve consumer safety and overhauls how the marijuana industry is taxed. The proposed ballot initiative would fund a testing program, in which regulators would randomly buy marijuana products from dispensaries and test them for…
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Colorado marijuana regulators pledge crackdown on intoxicating hemp
Colorado regulators announced last week that they plan to crack down on companies that illegally substitute cheaper and potentially hazardous hemp products for marijuana. The regulators said they had detected “regulatory compliance issues” that threaten to unravel the marijuana industry in the nation’s first legal retail market. These issues “present serious risks to public safety,…
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Colorado marijuana regulators pledge crackdown on intoxicating hemp
Colorado regulators announced last week that they plan to crack down on companies that illegally substitute cheaper and potentially hazardous hemp products for marijuana. The regulators said they had detected “regulatory compliance issues” that threaten to unravel the marijuana industry in the nation’s first legal retail market. These issues “present serious risks to public safety,…
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Senate votes to ban intoxicating hemp products nationally
Legislation passed by the U.S. Senate late Monday will ban nearly all hemp-derived THC products, despite Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s attempts to block the hemp-ban language from a part of the GOP-proposed deal designed to end the government shutdown. Eight Democrats joined with GOP senators to support a Republican-led stopgap funding deal Sunday, which includes a continuing resolution…
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Senate votes to ban intoxicating hemp products nationally
Legislation passed by the U.S. Senate late Monday will ban nearly all hemp-derived THC products, despite Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s attempts to block the hemp-ban language from a part of the GOP-proposed deal designed to end the government shutdown. Eight Democrats joined with GOP senators to support a Republican-led stopgap funding deal last week, which includes a continuing…
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Senate votes to ban intoxicating hemp products nationally
Legislation passed by the U.S. Senate late Monday will ban nearly all hemp-derived THC products, despite Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s attempts to block the hemp-ban language from a part of the GOP-proposed deal designed to end the government shutdown. Eight Democrats joined with GOP senators to support a Republican-led stopgap funding deal Sunday, which includes a continuing resolution…
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Colorado’s poorest schools have fewer highly effective teachers than the richest schools, raising equity concerns
Colorado Schools’ Road to Recovery logo Colorado’s “highly effective” teachers are unequally distributed across its public schools, according to a Gazette analysis of the state education department’s teacher evaluation data. The poorer a school is in Colorado the more likely it is to have fewer “highly effective” teachers, while top-rated teachers are mostly concentrated in the…
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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit alleging Arapahoe County liability for former child protective staffer’s actions
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to hold the Arapahoe County’s commissioners liable for the actions of a former county child protective staffer who faces criminal charges for allegedly falsely accusing an Aurora councilwoman of sexually abusing her 2-year-old son. State evaluation concludes no ‘systemic’ fraud at Arapahoe County child-protective agency…
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Mother blames parental evaluator for the death of her 10-year-old son
In the Gazette’s investigation of the broken system of child custody evaluations, one notorious case stood out. A mother said a Centennial counselor and long-time parental evaluator who worked as a court-appointed child’s therapist in a custody case was key in a systemwide failure that led to the death of her son. She said that…
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Oversight of parental evaluators has been lacking for decades
For decades, critics have urged Colorado’s judicial branch to do more to ensure the quality of court appointed evaluators, but the judiciary has been slow to regulate the profession. An investigation by The Gazette found dozens of cases of incompetent, inaccurate and biased custody evaluations by court-appointed evaluators, several of whom put children at serious,…