Author: Hannah Metzger
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Colorado to give $6.7 million in school supplies funding to thousands of teachers
Colorado teachers can request $1,000 from the state to pay for classroom supplies under a newly expanded program. Gov. Jared Polis and the Department of Education pledged $6.7 million to the DonorsChoose Program on Thursday, which gives money to teachers to pay for school supplies and resources to improve students’ learning experiences. This adds to…
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Final Colorado board rules on ‘abortion reversal,’ none declare it an accepted practice
An effort to make Colorado the first state in the nation to prohibit so-called abortion reversal treatment is inching toward the finish line. State legislators passed a law in April to classify abortion reversal treatment as unprofessional conduct, subjecting medical workers who provide the treatment to professional discipline. But the law allowed abortion reversal to…
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Colorado Nursing Board declines to call ‘abortion reversal’ unprofessional conduct
‘Abortion reversal’ will likely remain as unprofessional conduct under a new state law because the Colorado Medical Board already ruled that it is not a valid medical practice
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‘It never ends’: Colorado lawmaker hopes for justice as court considers retrial in son’s murder
More than 18 years after Javad Marshall-Fields was killed, his mother, state Sen. Rhonda Fields, said she is still waiting for the fight for justice to end. Marshall-Fields and his fiancée, Vivian Wolfe, were murdered in Aurora in 2005. The two 22-year-olds were fatally shot days before Marshall-Fields was scheduled to testify as a witness to the 2004…
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Colorado Community College System honors sponsors of free college program
Four bipartisan ‘legislators of the year’ launched a $38.6M free education program
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Gov. Jared Polis backs reclassifying marijuana as Schedule III drug: ‘It’s about time’
‘Let’s celebrate this progress and work together to finish the job,’ Polis said
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Colorado’s ‘citizen legislature’ clashes with financial realities
While running for the Colorado House of Representatives, Rep. Stephanie Vigil spent her days and nights knocking on constituents’ doors. Sometimes to ask for their vote. Sometimes to deliver them food. On a typical day, Vigil started her mornings with campaign meetings at 8 a.m., before jumping in her car at 10:30 a.m. to make…
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Colorado Democratic Party endorses Polis’ property tax measure
The fights over both ballot measures are mostly split along party lines
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Heidi Humphreys tapped to lead Colorado Department of Revenue
Humphreys replaces former House Speaker Mark Ferrandino as executive director
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Polis to phase out gas-powered lawn equipment at Colorado facilities
Gov. Jared Polis is seeking to lower the state’s gas and water usage one lawn at a time. Polis signed an executive order on Wednesday requiring state facilities to phase out the use of gas-powered lawn and garden equipment, replacing them with electric equipment by June 2025. This includes anything from push lawn mowers to…