Tag: colorado lawmakers
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Colorado lawmakers advance bill to tackle state’s prison capacity issues
As lawmakers work to complete the next state budget, they are intensifying efforts to address overcrowding and capacity challenges within the Department of Corrections and related agencies — issues that have contributed to increased spending in the budget. The state Senate on Friday gave preliminary approval to Senate Bill 159, specifically designed to work on…
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Biden will ‘do the right thing for the country’: John Hickenlooper
Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-CO, refused to say if President Joe Biden should continue as the Democratic nominee in the 2024 election. “If you’re trying to get me to take a position on whether he should continue his campaign, I will collectively avoid answering the question, just because right now, it’s a process of really listening,”…
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Modified Colorado bill bans firearms in state Capitol
Colorado lawmakers substantially modified a proposal that originally listed nearly 20 places where a person would be prohibited to carry a firearm — even with a concealed weapons permit — to only a handful of areas, notably including higher education institutions. In narrowing down that list, the legislators added a new place where guns would be banned…