Author: James Anderson
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Colorado governor: Refugees welcome no matter what U.S. does
DENVER — Colorado’s governor, refugees and the volunteers who help them recreate their lives marked World Refugee Day on Tuesday with a state Capitol celebration tempered by a dose of uncertainty. Colorado’s refugee arrivals are rapidly decreasing under a Trump administration order that more than halved the number of displaced people who are being allowed…
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Trump nominates Colorado justice for federal appeals court
DENVER — President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Allison Eid, a conservative Colorado Supreme Court justice, to serve on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Eid would replace Neil Gorsuch, who was confirmed in April to the nation’s highest court. Trump considered Eid last year as a Supreme Court candidate. Her nomination goes…
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Colorado bill would expedite immigrant license renewals
DENVER — Colorado has issued driver’s licenses to unauthorized immigrant residents since 2014, and lawmakers acted Wednesday to make it easier to renew them when the first of those licenses start expiring in August. A bill approved by the House Local Government Committee would expedite the process, in part by allowing drivers to renew online…
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House panel OKs making wage-theft findings open to public
DENVER — For about a century, any finding by Colorado labor officials that an employer cheated his or her workers on wages has been considered a trade secret that’s off-limits to the public. That may change this year after a House panel unanimously approved a bill Thursday to include those findings under Colorado’s Open Records…
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Denver slaying suspect supports Islamic State
DENVER — A former U.S. soldier accused of shooting and killing a transit guard in downtown Denver last month says he is a supporter of the Islamic State group, but investigators say they have not found evidence the terror group had anything to do with the killing. In a telephone interview Thursday from Denver’s jail,…
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New efforts launched to change Colorado’s Open Records Act
DENVER — A Democratic senator is trying again to modernize Colorado’s Open Records Act with a bill that would require government agencies to release public records in searchable data formats, like Excel spreadsheets, that are easy for the public to analyze. A similar bill submitted last year by Sen. John Kefalas of Fort Collins died…
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Colorado considers ending longtime switchblade knife ban
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER — The switchblade knives wielded six decades ago by the fictional Jets and Sharks street gangs in the legendary Broadway musical “West Side Story” and in Hollywood films spooked lawmakers across the U.S. and…
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Colorado’s governor won’t issue clean-air executive order
DENVER — Citing backlash from Republicans, Colorado’s Democratic governor said Tuesday he has abandoned the idea of issuing an executive order to seek a one-third cut in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. But Gov. John Hickenlooper insisted he hadn’t given up on the proposal’s goals — or his own commitment to maintaining Colorado’s status…
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Colorado recount possible on slavery in state Constitution
DENVER — It seemed like a no-brainer: Colorado’s voters were asked to eliminate an archaic and offensive reference to slavery as a punishment for a crime in the state Constitution. But a week after the vote, the poorly-written amendment is on the cusp of failing, and a lack of clarity from lawmakers may be to…
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Proposed $28.5B Colorado budget affects transit, health care
DENVER — Colorado’s transportation, education and health care spending will not grow as hoped for by Gov. John Hickenlooper under a proposed $28.5 billion budget for the 2017-2018 fiscal year that he sent to lawmakers Tuesday. The proposed budget is 3.3 percent larger than this year’s, and it includes requests to use marijuana tax dollars…