Colorado Week in Review

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• Denver’s Coors Field will host MLB All-Star game
• Colorado’s 2022 budget boosts K-12 spending, reverses higher ed cuts
• Colorado lawmakers propose ambitious plan for behavioral health recovery

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• Supporters and opponents weigh in on the state’s public health option proposal
• Biden adopts measure pushed by Neguse to regulate device allegedly used in Boulder shooting
• ‘IsIt420’; Auction underway for pot-themed license plates

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• Colorado is expecting another explosive wildfire year, but the state may be more prepared this time
• Black and Hispanic people face “persistent set of disadvantages” in Denver courts, study of prosecutor data finds
• Deadly street racing-involved crash in Denver prompts police to send warning

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• Centura Health To Stop Using Johnson & Johnson COVID Vaccine At Drive-Up Mass Vaccination Events
• Colorado doctor charged in federal court with stealing nearly $300,000 from COVID-19 relief programs
• 9News, Parent Company Accused of Racist Behavior in Federal Filing

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• Federal Spending Plan Could Thrust Colorado Roadways & Transportation Infrastructure Forward
• Confidence In Business: Denver Companies Looking Ahead And Looking Up
• A cat stole the show at Friday’s Rockies game

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• Frontier Airlines Hopes IPO Rides Wave Of Travel Recovery
• Colorado lawmakers give 1st OK to ban on Native American mascots
• Colorado’s expansion of vaccine access stokes fears that appointments will be even harder to find

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• Colorado drivers involved in 42 crashes per day due to distracted driving
• Longtime Denver activist pleads guilty in judicial threats case
• ‘This is our Flint’: Colorado environmental activists call for investigation following whistleblower complaint

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• Gov. Polis extends mask mandate, level green counties can opt out
• Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter Wants Tighter Regulations On Firearm Used In Boulder Grocery Store Shooting
• Redistricting chairman defends Facebook posts: ‘I’m not a conspiracy theorist’

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• Gov. Polis launches Build Back Stronger statewide listening tour
• Colorado man builds squirrel houses to keep ‘sweet creatures’ safe
• A New Herbert Bayer Sculpture Has Arrived at Denver’s Alameda Station

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• New survey shows increased interest, uptake of COVID vaccine in Colorado
• COVID Dial 3.0: No Capacity Limits For Gyms And Outdoor Events Under Lowest Levels
• Colorado’s billionaires are nearly $10 billion richer since March 2020

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• Mass shooting at Boulder King Soopers adds to Colorado’s history of high-profile shootings
• Weld Sheriff Tells Anti-Govt Activists Not to Revolt, Then Calls CO Lawmaker a ‘Terrorist’
• Colorado’s toxic emitters revise their leakage numbers below tough thresholds in law

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• Dominion Voting sues Fox News for $1.6 billion over 2020 election claims
• Colorado baker sued again over alleged LGBTQ bias
• Kristi Burton Brown elected to lead Colorado’s Republican Party for next two years

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• Sen. Michael Bennet Secures $100 Billion In Child Tax Credits To Help Lift Families Out Of Poverty
• Colorado economists expect worst of COVID recession has passed
• Plug-in And Hike: Colorado Strikes Deal For Electric Car Chargers At Every State Park

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• Colorado Democrats introduce public option bill to create nonprofit-managed health insurance plan
• Denver may make scooter, bike shares a more permanent fixture on city streets
• Historic snowstorm helps improve drought conditions across Colorado

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• Colorado near top in getting COVID-19 vaccine to people over 65, but middle of pack with overall population
• Shootings In Atlanta Leave Some In Denver’s Asian Community ‘Really Disgusted’
• Counterfeit opioid pills made in Mexico pushed Colorado into a third, deadly wave of the opioid crisis

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• Griswold testifies in support of bill to prevent foreign influence in Colorado elections
• Debate heats up surrounding MeatOut Day after the Gov. Polis’s proclamation
• Permanent fencing around Colorado Capitol has bipartisan opposition from dozens of former lawmakers

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• Sandhill Crane migration through Colorado’s San Luis Valley
• Vice President Harris to visit Denver to tout COVID relief package
• Colorado relaxes some COVID-19 restrictions, restaurant capacity, last call expanded

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• Daylight saving time is back this weekend, and so is the annual controversy about the practice
• Retro Green Mountain License Plates Could Return To Colorado Roadways
• Denver weather: Up to 6 more inches of snow possible as storm settles in over I-25 corridor

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• South African COVID-19 variant confirmed in Colorado for first time
• Airline Passenger Accused of Refusing Mask, Then Urinating
• Colorado reports most killings in 2020 in 25 years

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• With governor’s backing, Black lawmakers seek to ban handcuffing young kids in Colorado schools
• Congresswoman calls for ethics investigation into Boebert, other GOP reps because of insurrection
• Denver Resumes Vehicle Registration Enforcement On April 1

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• $1.9T relief bill: What that means for Coloradans
• Colorado driver’s license will soon feature Mount Sneffels
• Gov. Polis invites elementary students to “Name that Plow” contest

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• Safe gun storage bill passes out of House committee
• Major Challenges In Denver Metro Area For New Home Seekers As Median Home Price Increases By 21% In Past Year
• Johnson & Johnson vaccine arrives in Colorado with some opposition from Catholic bishops

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• One year of COVID-19 in Colorado: What we’ve learned, and what could still haunt us
• Bradley Bunn Pleads Guilty To Possessing Pipe Bombs In Loveland Home
• Man loses hunting privileges in Colorado, 47 other states after three-county poaching spree

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• Catholic group opposes Colorado bill that would give child sex abuse survivors the ability to sue their abuser at any time
• Help Wanted: Colorado GOP seeks a leader after years of election losses
• Woman sues Denver after eye injury from protest requires multiple surgeries

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• With US House Approval, Colorado Public Lands Bills Move On To The Senate — Again
• Xcel Energy ups ante on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, pledges 85% reduction by 2030
• Mystery man pays everyone’s tab, leaves $5,000 tip at Broomfield tavern

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• Colorado elections expert nominated by Joe Biden to serve on U.S. Postal Service governing board
• Meet the Man Trying to Prevent Pride Flag Bans in Colorado
• Interior nominee Deb Haaland commits to Colorado visit as she considers whether to keep Bureau of Land Management in Grand Junction

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• Colorado governor pressures PUC to protect utility customers from storm price surges
• Independent investigation into Elijah McClain’s death highlights widespread police accountability gaps
• Colorado man sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic synagogue

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• New poll finds 29% of Colorado Republicans plan to get the COVID-19 vaccine
• Senate panel rejects GOP voting bill
• Moms Square-Off Over High Potency Pot Bill

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• Colorado lawmakers get right to work on the grand reopening of the 2021 legislative session
• ‘Super Exciting’: Colorado Scientists That Helped Perseverance Rover Mission Celebrate Mars Landing
• More than 1 million COVID-19 vaccines administered in Colorado, state health officials say

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• Regulators OK landmark deal to cut oil, gas emissions
• Cloned Black-Footed Ferret ‘Elizabeth Ann’ Could Help Determine Fate Of Endangered Animal
• Man fights off mountain lion that was attacking his dog

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• Debris from United Airlines 777 rains down on Broomfield as plane makes emergency landing at Denver airport
• Pollution exposure associated with increased COVID-19 infections and deaths in Colorado, study finds
• CO Republican Lawmakers Are Trying to Make Abortion a Felony Again

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• Boebert objects to ban on guns in U.S. House committee room
• Colorado Education Association survey: nearly 40% of members considering leaving teaching
• More than 1 million Colorado unemployment claims flagged as potential fraud

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• An Emirati Space Probe Made In Boulder Has Reached Mars
• Sending out love from Colorado’s ‘Sweetheart City’ for 75 years
• More unrelated people allowed to live under the same roof with Denver City Council zoning change

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• Texas man wins $6.2 million in Super Bowl bet placed in Colorado
• DIA’s 9,000 pound Mustang ‘Blucifer’ turns 13
• There’s A New Push For A Ban On Plastic Bags And Foam Containers Brewing At The State Capitol

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• Extremely cold weather in Denver area will endanger the homeless this weekend
• History Of Mistreatment Is Fueling Vaccine Hesitation For People Of Color In Colorado
• Aurora police chief fires cop for punching, Tasing man lying prone in grocery store aisle

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• Despite acquittal in impeachment trial, DeGette says: “We made our case to the American people”
• Conservative grassroots organizer challenges Colorado Republicans
• Colorado Supreme Court releases memo citing examples of sex-discrimination, judicial misconduct that led to alleged contract for silence

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• Colorado Democrats reintroduce CORE Act into a friendlier Congress
• Colorado changes COVID-19 dial, allowing Denver and other large counties 50% capacity
• Denver assisted living center provides ‘hug tent’ for residents to safely embrace loved ones during pandemic

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• ‘Large boulder the size of large boulder’ crashes onto highway in Colorado
• In the first six months of health care professionals replacing police officers, no one they encountered was arrested
• 50 Siberian huskies surrendered to shelters in Colorado

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• After hundreds of meatpacking workers died from COVID-19, Congress wants answers
• Slain FBI agent remembered far and wide
• Three Skiers Found Dead After Avalanche in Colorado, Officials Say

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• Rep. Boebert paid off nearly $20K in state tax liens in 2020
• Gov. Jared Polis Tells Wyoming Governor ‘Hands Off Weld County’
• Reeling Rockies face long list of questions in post-Nolan Arenado era