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Gov. Jared Polis wants lawmakers to exempt corporations like Coors Brewing Company and Anheuser-Busch from a bill that would create a new alcohol enterprise fee to raise money for alcohol use disorder treatment and prevention services across Colorado. The bill’s sponsors and supporters aren’t happy.
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Last year, lawmakers handed Gov. Jared Polis a major defeat when they rejected his controversial plan to tackle Colorado’s housing crisis. Now, a similar set of proposals is advancing in the legislature despite bipartisan opposition. Polis signed one proposal into law Monday that will ban occupancy limits statewide, but the rest of his housing proposals face an uncertain future.
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Colorado's Democratic-controlled House has passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms. It's a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year.
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Sandra Fish, a veteran reporter with The Colorado Sun, was kicked out of the Republican Party’s state assembly in Pueblo recently. Fish was given a press pass when she entered the event but was later escorted out by a sheriff’s deputy. State GOP party chair Dave Williams said Fish was kicked out because he believes her reporting is "unfair." The Colorado Sun editor Larry Ryckman joined KUNC's Michael Lyle Jr. to discuss the aftermath of this story.
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Politicians and news outlets have expressed outrage over the expulsion of a Colorado politics reporter from a Republican gathering over the weekend. Sandra Fish, a reporter for the Colorado Sun, was told Saturday that the state party chairman believed her reporting was "very unfair."
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Libertarian activist and businessman Jon Caldara has filed a ballot initiative to repeal Senate Bill 157, which allows lawmakers to have more conversations in private.
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Colorado's wildlife authorities say a wolf has killed a calf in Colorado. It's the first confirmed livestock kill after 10 of the predators were controversially reintroduced in December to the dismay of the state's rural residents.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert underwent surgery Tuesday in Colorado for a blood clot in her leg. The congresswoman's campaign said she is expected to make a full recovery.
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The change to make a secret survey used at the state Capitol public comes months after a judge ordered lawmakers to stop using their previous secret ballot system to prioritize legislation because it violated Colorado’s open meetings law.
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The nonprofit Circular Action Alliance says only 22% to 28% of consumer packaging and paper products are being recycled in the Centennial State. A new statewide recycling program is looking to change that rate to nearly 60% by 2035. But some worry the program could mean inflated prices for consumers. The Colorado Sun reporter Michael Booth spoke with KUNC's Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on this story.