Four Larimer County state legislators are calling for their own public health director to be fired over an email he sent in frustration regarding a large banner that he believed was comparing him and his staff to fascists.
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At Hearing, Hick Says Women-Owned Business Aren’t Getting Their “Fair Share” And Asks What Can Be Done About It
“Women-owned businesses are obviously not getting their fair share,” said U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) last week at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. “If you look at startups, the percentage of venture capital that goes to women-led startups is under three percent, which defies any possible measure of what is going on.”
Conservatives Ahead in Most Aurora City Council Races
Aurora voters are selecting City Council members to represent Wards I, II and III, as well as two at-large members to represent the entire city.
Denver School Board Candidates Backed By Teachers Union Leading
By Melanie Asmar, Chalkbeat Colorado
What the Supreme Court Battle Over the Texas Abortion Ban Means for Coloradans
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in two cases challenging Texas Senate Bill 8 (SB8), which has banned nearly all abortion in Texas since it took effect September 1. At stake is whether Texans will continue to have to travel to nearby states like Colorado for care, whether other conservative states will be emboldened to pass laws that mimic SB8, and the fate of the federal constitutional right to an abortion promised in Roe v. Wade.
Colorado Millionaires Want Billionaires Tax Included in Build Back Better Bill
Eleven Coloradans are among 250 millionaires nationally who called on U.S. House leaders today to include U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D-OR) Billionaires Income Tax (BIT) in the Democrats’ Build Back Better legislation.
Colorado Republican Statehouse Candidate Promotes Numerous Conspiracy Theories
Cindy Ficklin, a Grand Junction realtor and conservative activist who is now running for the Colorado House of Representatives, believes that by listening to people and fighting for constitutional rights, she can bring the people of Mesa County together. She also believes that a small group of billionaires including George Soros and the Rothschild family may secretly control global banking and are pushing to subjugate America under a “New World Order.”
How Billing Turns a Routine Birth Into a High-Cost Emergency
By Rae Ellen Bichell, Kaiser Health News
Democrats? Republicans? The Political Bent of the Jefferson County School Board Candidates
Traditionally, campaigns for city councils and school boards in Colorado have adhered to their non-partisan designations, whereby candidates generally reflected the sensibilities of their district, and their elections were determined by nuanced differences in policy positions which didn’t necessarily correlate to the party affiliations of the candidate.