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The Colorado House passed a bill this month that supporters hope can help preserve affordable housing units. House Bill 1175 would give local governments a “right of first refusal” to buy privately owned affordable housing once its rent restrictions expire. Colorado Sun reporter Michael Booth joined KUNC's Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on the story.
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The State House recently passed a bill that would ban the purchase, sale and transfer of semi-automatic weapons. The bill passed 35-27 mainly along party lines. It now awaits approval in the Senate. Colorado Sun reporter David Krause spoke with KUNC's Michael Lyle, Jr. to get more on this complex situation.
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Equipped with artificial intelligence and heat sensors, the cameras are steadily replacing an older warning system used in wildfire-prone areas that relied on humans scanning the horizon from watch towers.
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Democratic leaders at the Capitol claim the results of an annual secret survey known as 'quadratic voting' among lawmakers are not public documents.
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KUNC investigative reporter Scott Franz joins Morning Edition host Dylan Simard to dig deeper into the use of quadratic voting at the Capitol.
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Transparency advocates say even though the outcome of the secret ballot process is being made public for the first time, the bill-ranking system still runs afoul of the open meetings law and shuts the public out of a process that lawmakers use to help decide how to spend their tax dollars.
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Republicans in the state House of Representatives continue to stage filibusters, throwing the legislative schedule into question.
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When Colorado residents go to the state Capitol this month to lobby for the bills they care most about, many will never know their bill might face a hidden obstacle.
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We talk with The Colorado Sun about the death of U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder, and the recently published list of top consumer complaints in the state.
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In Colorado, women will hold the majority of seats in the state legislature for the first time. That makes Colorado and Nevada the only two states with majority female statehouses.