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3 天之前 · An AR-15 with a detachable magazine at Bristlecone Shooting, Training and Retail Center in Lakewood, Colorado, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. The Colorado legislature is considering a bill that would ban the manufacture, purchase and sale of semiautomatic rifles and shotguns that are capable of accepting detachable ammunition magazines, as well as some semiautomatic pistols and handguns.

4 天之前 · Here’s an explainer of the funding mistakes that are putting new hurdles in front of the new school funding formula: When the legislature passed a law to adopt a new school finance formula last year, which promised to pump an additional $500 million into schools over six years, they agreed to incorporate three so-called triggers into the …

3 天之前 · The Colorado Sun is an award-winning news outlet based in Denver that strives to cover all of Colorado so that our state — our community — can better understand itself.

6 天之前 · Colorado State Patrol said the crowd was about 4,000 people around noon at the Capitol, and listened to speeches before they started marching just before 3 p.m. Protesters streamed from the West Steps across Lincoln and Civic Center parks to Denver City Hall, filling in as marchers made their way along West Colfax from the Auraria rail station.

6 天之前 · Last fall the Northwest Colorado Energy Initiative, a group tasked with replacing the coal industry in Garfield, Mesa, Moffat and Rio Blanco counties held presentations for public officials to discuss the opportunity for building the nation’s first consolidated nuclear storage site.. Nuclear energy currently produces about 20% of the nation’s power according to the U.S. Department of ...

5 天之前 · The Colorado Sun is an award-winning news outlet based in Denver that strives to cover all of Colorado so that our state — our community — can better understand itself.

2025年1月1日 · Meanwhile, while some of the state’s rural residents were becoming less informed about issues in their communities, Democratic lawmakers at the Capitol in Denver were at work making the business of state government less transparent.In the judiciary, court of appeals justices and the State Supreme Court ruled against news organizations that were trying to shine more sunlight onto our school ...

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2024年12月26日 · After contentious debate, local leaders scaled back the size of the sixth annual race for 2025. That reflects an evolution in communities that are built on tourism and a common theme in this year’s Outsider newsletters.