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Dec 16, 2024 · A summer fling with the FLiRTs. The most obvious reason for this deflated COVID season is that we already had an infection peak recently. It came during the summer and early fall, and was due to a new gang of variants known collectively as the FLiRTs for the pattern of their mutations. The immunity gained during that wave, plus Colorado’s continued better-than-the-national-average vaccine ...

Jun 12, 2024 · New requirements for concealed carry permits. Starting July 1, 2025, the requirements for obtaining a concealed carry permit will change. House Bill 1174 mandates that training classes to qualify for a concealed carry permit offer at least eight hours of instruction, including a live-fire test where participants shoot at least 50 rounds. Passing the live-fire test, as well as a written exam ...

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.

Nov 6, 2024 · Jeff Hurd, 3rd Congressional District Republican candidate, left, greets supporters before election results came in at his and 1st District Commissioner Republican candidate Cody Davis’ joined private election watch party at the Warehouse 25sixty-five on Nov. 5, 2024.

Nov 19, 2024 · Colorado’s rules — coming out two years after Oregon opened its first psilocybin service center — allow for two facilitator licensing tracks compared to only one in Oregon. In the first year of the program in Oregon, there are 21 licensed service centers, 10 manufacturing facilities and 329 licensed facilitators.. Poinsatte said it makes sense for states to lead on the implementation of ...

Nov 5, 2024 · The 2022 ruling left abortion up to states. Two years later, more than 25 million women ages 15 to 44, or about 2 in 5 nationally, now live in states where there are more restrictions on abortion access than there were before, according to The Associated Press. Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom, a coalition of abortion rights groups, is the main issue committee behind the ballot ...

Age: 40 About: Neguse helped found New Era Colorado as a student at University of Colorado in Boulder and was elected a CU regent in his final year of law school there. He ran unsuccessfully to be Colorado’s secretary of state in 2014, and won the 2nd Congressional District seat in 2018. Votes against party: 0.7% | Missed votes: 0.2% Committees: Judiciary; Natural Resources; Rules

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.

Oct 24, 2024 · Here are the six races where the most money has been spent by state-level super PACs: Senate District 5: It’s no surprise that the Senate District 5 race between state Rep. Marc Catlin, R-Montrose, and Democrat Cole Buerger, a small business owner who lives in Glenwood Springs, had drawn the most state-level super PAC spending through Tuesday. Nearly $2 million has been spent on this Western ...