Author: Ivan Moreno
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Analysis: Colorado gun law based on flawed estimate
DENVER — A law expanding background check requirements on Colorado gun sales has been in effect for about a year, and an Associated Press analysis of state data compiled during that span shows the projected impact was vastly overstated in a key budget report. The discovery has prompted a prominent Democratic lawmaker to question whether…
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Lawmakers: Overturn Colorado gay marriage ban
The lawmakers made the comments a day after Republican Attorney General John Suthers’ asked a federal court in Denver for an injunction declaring Colorado’s ban unconstitutional. But he wants the ruling to be stayed until the U.S. Supreme Court decides the issue. Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper and the county clerks in Denver and Jefferson counties…
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Six couples file lawsuit challenging Colorado’s gay marriage ban
DENVER – Six gay couples filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to overturn Colorado’s gay marriage ban, adding to an escalating showdown in the state as its Republican attorney general urges Boulder officials to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Although Colorado’s constitution bans same-sex marriage, a ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of…
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Hickenlooper, Suthers want Colorado gay marriage resolution
DENVER — Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper and Republican Attorney General John Suthers want a federal court to issue an injunction declaring Colorado’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. But they want the court to delay implementation of the ruling until the U.S. Supreme Court decides the issue. Suthers’ office says he wants to resolve the question of…
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Boulder clerk won’t stop issuing licenses to gay couples
DENVER — Six gay couples filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to overturn Colorado’s gay marriage ban, adding to an escalating showdown in the state as its Republican attorney general urges Boulder officials to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Although Colorado’s constitution bans same-sex marriage, a ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of…
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Boulder issuing more same-sex marriage licenses
BOULDER — More same-sex couples lined up to get marriage licenses in Boulder County Thursday despite warnings that gay marriage remains illegal in Colorado. Clerk Hillary Hall began issuing licenses Wednesday after a federal appeals court ruled that Utah’s same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional. More couples showed up Thursday to get licenses and some said…
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Beauprez wins Colorado governor GOP primary
DENVER – Republican voters on Tuesday opted for U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez to challenge Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper in November, pinning their hopes to end a long electoral drought in Colorado on a candidate who lost his previous gubernatorial bid by 17 points. Beauprez, a buffalo rancher who grew up working on his father’s dairy…
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Colorado law sets up world’s first marijuana banks; feds must OK
DENVER — Seeking to move marijuana businesses away from cash-only operations, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed legislation Friday that tries to establish the world’s first financial system for the newly legal industry in Colorado. The legislation seeks to form a network of uninsured cooperatives designed to give pot businesses a way to access basic banking services…
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Colorado lawmakers trying to restrict solitary confinement
DENVER — A year after a Colorado inmate held in solitary confinement allegedly gunned down the state prisons chief upon being released, lawmakers are moving to restrict use of the punishment for the mentally ill. The bill continues the efforts that Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements had been working on, and highlights a…
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Concentrated marijuana under review in Colorado
DENVER — When people buy marijuana from a store in Colorado, the ounce they can walk out the door with is fairly easy to measure. Not so when the pot is in concentrated form, perhaps baked into a cookie or brownie. The state could soon address that issue with a bill pending in the House.…