Tag: Julie Gonzales
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Colorado Senate to consider bill to further regulate towing industry
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The next step for a proposal to regulate the towing industry more strictly is the state Senate. On Wednesday, the House approved House Bill 1051 through a mostly party-line 45-16 vote. Sen. Julie Gonzales, D-Denver, whose car was towed last year, will sponsor the bill in the…
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Denver arts leader among those asked to reapply for jobs | John Moore
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One thing the 2023 Denver mayoral election was not was a referendum on the arts. Of all the contentious issues that came up during the campaign ranging from encampments to armed officers in schools, support for the arts came up, well … never. Denver is…
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Denver City Council increases metropolitan district debt limit 300%
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver City Council permitted the debt limit of three metropolitan districts to increase nearly 300% despite District 9 Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca’s opposition. The three Denargo Market metropolitan districts received an amended service plan that increased their debt limit from $22.6 million to $68 million.…
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Corrections department bows to criticism and rescinds new no-crime charge policy for escapes from halfway houses
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Department of Corrections has rescinded a new policy barring parole officers from seeking criminal charges for escapes from community-corrections halfway houses after law enforcement officials, prosecutors and halfway house operators criticized the policy as jeopardizing public safety. State corrections officials reversed course at…
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State Senate panel mirrors House, approves abortion bill in another late-night hearing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Just one week removed from a 14-hour hearing in the House Health & Insurance Committee, it was the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee’s turn for a late-night hearing on House Bill 1279, the Reproductive Health Equity Act. The Senate hearing was only minutes shorter, wrapping up just…
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Senate Democrats to pick next leader tomorrow
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Senate Democrats are poised to settle the Capitol intrigue over who will succeed Senate President Leroy Garcia, D-Pueblo, and potentially fill other leadership positions when they meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Garcia triggered the leadership upheaval last week when he announced he would step down…
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Homicides in Denver: Nearly half of all recent arrests tied to person under supervision
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The last words Christopher Rhodes remembers his ex-girlfriend telling him as she gasped her dying breath echo deep in his soul months after her killing. He found Taryn Meyer, the cellphone in her hand, the 911 dispatcher still on the line. Meyer was slouched behind a…
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Lawmakers give bill allowing hospital visits another chance after heartbreaking testimony from families affected by COVID
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Richard Gillham, a resident of Peetz in northern Logan County, was a farmer all his life. Rim Ranch, which his family owns, is one of Colorado’s Centennial farms, a designation awarded to farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years.…