Talk about a crazy ride. This year has been filled with controversy and hot button issues, like sexual harassment allegations, gun reform, basic LGBTQ+ civil rights and, who can forget, angry teachers storming the Capitol as part of the #RedforEd campaign. Of the more than 700 bills legislators considered this session, here are the most significant pieces of legislation that passed and failed.
Virginia’s Law aimed to protect Colorado immigrants, but the bill sponsors spiked the effort last legislative session after realizing Republican lawmakers in the State Senate were never going to pass it.
Denver has received exactly two applications for its Cannabis Consumption Establishment program since its launch last August.
And Polis baaaarely eeked out of the radical left.
Since being transferred to a men’s prison from a juvenile correctional facility for females, Lindsay Saunders-Velez, a nineteen-year-old transgender woman, has been raped twice within a matter of months, her attorney says. Yet thus far, Colorado officials refuse to place her into a women’s prison even though her most recent alleged attacker has been returned to the general inmate population at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, where she’s currently being held.
The massive Central 70 and I-25 North projects aren’t the only highway construction plans on the cusp of breaking ground along the urban corridor. Also soon to get underway is what’s been dubbed I-25 South Gap, and Colorado Department of Transportation spokesperson Tamara Rollison says the need for changes along this eighteen-mile stretch between Castle Rock and Monument goes far beyond congestion issues.
Even as the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, is working with the office of Colorado Senator Cory Gardner to craft legislation designed to protect states that have legalized cannabis sales from federal interference, the organization is making a new push to have the marijuana removed from the Controlled Substances Act, a process known as de-scheduling.
While slashes benefits, it increases transparency…slightly.
Almost thirty pot-related bills were introduced this session.
The City of Denver disagrees with some of the key findings in an explosive new report about laws in the Mile High City affecting the homeless. The University of Denver is defending its report.
While dispensaries carry pre-made liquids with THC and CBD already in them, such as oral sprays, tinctures, drinks and syrups, you may already have gummies at home that you don’t want to go to waste
Denver Post journalists have been waging a war or words against Alden Global Capital, its vulture hedge fund owner, and given that the paper is still making millions despite layoffs targeting nearly a third of its newsroom staff, Alden appears to be winning. But now, those Post scribes and photographers who’ve been given their walking papers have a new opportunity to be paid to exercise their skills. The Economic Hardship Reporting Project has established a $10,000 fund specifically earmarked for recently axed Post employees.
Colorado Department of Education data about marijuana violations in state schools reveals the facilities with the most pot-related incidents during the 2016-2017 academic year, with five registering fifty or more. The numbers also illustrate the wide variation in how schools handle such matters, with many seldom or never referring the students in question to law enforcement. The most common punishment: out-of-school suspensions.
Colorado State University is taking a barrage of flak after two Native American students who’d signed up to tour the campus were detained by police after the mother of another potential CSU attendee dialed 911 because their appearance disturbed her. But Cheryl Crazy Bull, president and CEO of the Denver-based American Indian College Fund, sees the university less as the cause of a disease than a symptom of one.
Denver Health researchers used undercover phone calls to quiz store employees.
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Today is the last day of the state legislative session. Normally, that would mean that it’s time to party — not for the legions of Colorado legislative fans (if those exist, please let us know), but for the legislators themselves, along with the lobbyists and the interns and the staff and the hangers-on.
It took 119 days to pass what is arguably the most important piece of legislation to come out of the Capitol this year. After unanimous support in the Senate and an almost exclusively Democratic push from the House, a multibillion-dollar transportation bill was finally pushed out of the legislature and onto the governor’s desk.
Once on the rocks, the system is getting help from citizens’ groups,
After Denver was named one of twenty finalists as the location for Amazon HQ2, locals already concerned about out-of-control growth and rising housing costs offered a notably mixed reaction, with a recent poll suggesting that Mile High residents are less enthusiastic about hosting a new campus for the mega-firm than those living in any of the other potential sites. But they may be more favorably disposed to Army Futures Command, a new military project that also has Denver on its short list.
As of late last year, rent prices finally seemed to be leveling off in Denver and its nearby communities following a long stretch during which rental costs consistently zoomed upward in the Mile High City’s hyper-competitive housing market. But the news thus far in 2018 has reversed this trend, with the latest eye-popping data confirming that metro Denver rent increases are back with a vengeance.
It’s not sweet and sugary like Dairy Queen’s, but it’ll still cool you down after a hot day.
