Tag: Senate
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Incumbent Colorado lawmaker coached public testimony for redistricting hearings
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A state lawmaker looking to protect the fortunes of his Republican caucus as Colorado’s political maps are redrawn this year held a video training earlier this summer to coach people on how to provide testimony intended to keep the incumbent legislators in power after the…
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Census data reveals population adjustments needed in draft maps
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s redistricting commissioners decided earlier this year to use incomplete and out-of-date data to draw the preliminary draft maps that are being toured around the state for public input. The commissioners knew at the time that their maps would end up needing adjustments, because the…
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Scrutiny aimed at redistricting commission’s maps over minority protections
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Preliminary draft maps unveiled in June by the state’s legislative redistricting commission, if not adjusted, could violate federal civil rights laws, two state lawmakers said this week, by splitting minority communities in some parts of…
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Redistricting commissions’ maps ripped in Arvada
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s independent redistricting commissioners got an earful Tuesday night in Arvada — from the biggest crowd yet at a public input hearing — about the preliminary draft maps unveiled in June. It was the first public input hearing in a metro area, after the first three, held over…
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Space Command general tells lawmakers Alabama lacks communications capabilities he needs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save U.S. Space Command’s top general admitted to a congressional committee that an expensive secure communications network to connect the headquarters to the Pentagon and other installations would have to be built if it moves from Colorado to Huntsville, Ala. While backing the planned move, Space…
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Polis leads 21 governors in urging Congress to allow national banking services for cannabis businesses
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. Jared Polis and 20 other governors sent a letter Monday, urging Congress to pass legislation to allow state-licensed cannabis-related businesses to operate under the national banking system. The effort was led by Polis in…
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Neguse, other House Democrats urge Biden to ban assault weapon imports
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save U.S Rep. Joe Neguse and more than 60 House Democrats asked President Joe Biden on Thursday to halt importation of semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, citing Monday’s deadly shooting at a Boulder supermarket as a reason for the president to act “immediately” rather than wait…
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Rep. Lauren Boebert has a one-word response to Trump’s second acquittal
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert had only one word in response to former President Donald Trump’s acquittal in the impeachment trial that concluded Saturday. “Twice,” Boebert tweeted, along with a photo of Trump holding up a newspaper with the headline “Trump acquitted” after his first impeachment…
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Democrats add heft to effort to keep Space Command in Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With U.S. Space Command in the balance, a lawmaker perennially voted as the most conservative member of Congress is turning left for help. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn isn’t switching parties, but the decision in the final days of the Trump administration to move the command…