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Colorado's 8 new gun laws passed in 2024 - The Colorado Sun
Jun 12, 2024 · Surrender by people subject to a temporary domestic violence restraining order. A rare example of a bipartisan bill tightening Colorado’s gun regulations, House Bill 1122 requires people who are subject to a temporary domestic violence restraining order to relinquish their guns and ammunition and prevents them from purchasing more firearms or ammunition while the order is …
Safeway owner breaks off merger with Kroger which would have …
Dec 11, 2024 · A day after two judges in two lawsuits ruled against the proposed $24.6 billion supermarket merger, Albertsons Companies said Wednesday it would end its merger agreement with Kroger. “Given the recent federal and state court decisions to block our proposed merger with Kroger, we have made the difficult decision to terminate the merger agreement.
Proposition KK: Colorado voters approve gun excise tax
Nov 5, 2024 · Proposition KK had received 54% of votes in favor as of 11:40 p.m., and its supporters declared victory Tuesday night. The Associated Press called the race at 2:18 a.m. Wednesday with the vote share unmoved. The measure was referred to the ballot earlier this year by the state legislature’s Democratic majority.
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How To Submit. We accept guest columns from all corners of Colorado and all types of Coloradans, on any issue that is important to them. These can be hard-hitting opinion columns or personal essays, detailed analyses or big-picture meditations.
Amendment G: Colorado voters pass property tax breaks for more …
Nov 5, 2024 · Nearly 300,000 households claim the homestead exemption, a popular tax break on primary residences that Colorado voters added to the state constitution in 2000.
People in south-central Colorado are fighting a big electric-rate hike
Dec 2, 2024 · No electric rate increase for Black Hills Energy. Absolutely none. Zip. Nada. That’s the resounding message to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission from people living in a swath of south-central Colorado served by the South Dakota-based for-profit utility company.. The clarion call came from city and county governments, …
Colorado’s train dreams are shunted aside for a major bus expansion
Dec 8, 2024 · Bus Rapid Transit construction heading west from N. Washington St. along E. Colfax Ave, with crews working and traffic lane changes from Broadway downtown east to Park Ave. on November 15, 2024 in Denver, Colorado.
What happened after homeless people in Denver got paid with no …
Jun 20, 2024 · An experiment to pay people who were homeless in Denver with no limits on how they could spend the money led to twice as many people in stable housing, according to researchers who released their one-year report Tuesday.
Prop. 131 fails: Colorado rejects all-candidate primaries, ranked ...
Nov 5, 2024 · Colorado voters on Tuesday rejected Proposition 131, which would have moved the state to an all-candidate primary system where the top four vote getters advanced to ranked choice general elections.