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Bipartisan bills to bring down health insurance prices advance in legislature
There may be some relief on the horizon for high-country residents suffering from massive health-insurance headaches the last few years. Two bills currently working their way through the state legislative…
House gives nod to dark money campaign disclosure bill debated in local races
Lost last week in the uproar over higher-profile bills such as a proposed red-flag, gun-safety law and tougher oil and gas drilling regulations, a Colorado legislative committee on Thursday quietly…
Why didn’t Colorado get any more wilderness in recent public lands bill?
While some conservation leaders were celebrating, turns out quite a few others were wondering why Colorado got so severely short-changed in the wilderness-protection arena with the passage this week of…
Trump’s wall debate heats up, hits home in Eagle County
The debate over President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to force U.S. taxpayers to fund his campaign promise of a border wall he said Mexico would pay for…
Red flag bill backed by Vail police, prosecutor set for first House hearing
The Colorado House Judiciary Committee on Thursday will get its first look at a so-called “red-flag bill” that would create a system for judicial review of Extreme Risk Protection Orders…
Colorado joins 16 states suing Trump administration over border wall ‘national emergency’
Colorado has signed onto a multi-state lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s declaration of a national emergency to obtain funding for a border wall with Mexico. “Colorado will join at least…
Trump’s national emergency for border wall does nothing for immigration reform
President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to tap into billions of dollars Congress declined to give him for his long-promised southwestern border wall that he’s always said…
Senate approves bill that restores Land and Water Conservation Fund
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved the Natural Resources Management Act that includes permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund that Congress allowed to expire last fall. The…
Johnston: Forget wall, shutdown politics and focus on employer enforcement
With the federal government facing another partial shutdown on Friday over border-security funding – just three weeks after the longest such shutdown in history – Vail native and U.S. Senate…
Hickenlooper calls on Northam to resign, decries divisiveness of President Trump
Former Democratic Colorado governor and Denver mayor John Hickenlooper told the Rev. Al Sharpton in an MSNBC interview on Saturday that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam must resign in the wake…