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By Jon Pompia THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN Advocates for Community Schools, including the local teachers union and the Pueblo Education Coalition, received a boost last week when Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 102 into law. Though the measure does not provide funding, it does permit a public school wanting to operate as an Innovation School
PAGOSA DAILY POST The Joint Budget Committee voted yesterday to finalize the bipartisan FY19-20 Colorado State Budget, securing more than $300 million for transportation funding, which begins on July 1, 2019. The budget now heads to both the Senate and House for approval of the Conference Committee report. Once approved, it will head to Governor
By Charles Ashby THE DAILY SENTINEL Sexual predators who use social media to lure teenagers would face felony charges under a bill that won preliminary approval in the Colorado Senate on Monday. House Bill 1030 was initially introduced to deal with cases such as one in Moffat County last year. There, Moffat County High School
By Tom Roeder THE GAZETTE A new license plate could be on its way for Colorado veterans courtesy of a measure winding its way through the state Senate. The measure, Senate Bill 19-205, would create a special plate for women who served to go along with the state’s 38 other plates that honor the military.
By Nic Garcia THE DENVER POST The big news out of the state Senate this week is that we have traction on Colorado’s next budget. The bigger news is that the debate over the 600-plus page long bill — which has in previous sessions kept lawmakers locked in heated debate for hours — somehow broke the
By John Herrick COLORADO INDEPENDENT Gov. Jared Polis stood in the Greenlee Elementary School library to announce that free, all-day kindergarten — his No. 1 campaign promise — was on its way to reality. “Every single child deserves a strong start,” the governor said late last week as he was flanked by lawmakers, educators and
By Thomas Mitchell WESTWORD We’re over two months into Colorado’s 2019 legislative session, and pot proposals have been creating plenty of buzz at the State Capitol. While bills to provide medical marijuana patients with firearms rights and altered-state DUI laws regarding marijuana use are as good as dead, measures that would expand medical marijuana access, allow pot delivery and set up social consumption
By Clay Thorp CRAIG PRESS A state bill that seeks to close a gap allowing adults to “sext” or send sexually explicit text messages to minors passed the Colorado House’s Judiciary Committee late Thursday night, March 14. In an email Friday, the bill’s sponsor Rep. Matt Soper (R-Delta) said HB19-1030 is heading “to the House floor
By Steve Staeger 9 NEWS Ever been stuck at a light that won’t change to green? It often has to do with an underground sensor, which triggers the light when it senses vehicles. The problem, many motorcyclists will tell you, is that the sensor often doesn’t sense motorcycles. The so-called “inductive loop” sensors run an electrical
By Christopher Osher THE COLORADO SUN teve Wilson has spent 35 years in education in rural Colorado, the past 14 as superintendent of the Big Sandy School District that stretches across ranchland in Elbert and El Paso counties. In his second year as superintendent there, four teachers retired, wiping out more than 132 years of