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Colorado lawmakers race to counter “right to natural gas” ballot measure

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 47.91. affordable housing, air quality, ballot measure, budget, campaign finance, colorado, colorado supreme court, commission, energy efficiency, housing, latino, petition, transportation

[image: Gas stove] [image: The Unaffiliated — All politics, no agenda.] ------------------------------ Colorado lawmakers say they are launching a last-minute legislative bid on Friday to counter a proposed ballot measure aiming to give consumers in the state a constitutional “right to natural gas.” [image: Colorado Capitol News Alliance] This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. The proposed amendment, known as Initiative 177, is backed by Advance Colorado, a conservative advocacy group that doesn’t disclose its donors. Its appearance has triggered fears of a retu

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Silas Soule died for refusing to whitewash the Sand Creek Massacre. His actions are more relevant than ever.

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 46.00. abolition, abolitionist, black, civil rights, colorado, election, police, racial justice, social justice, students, tabor, voting rights

Story first appeared in: On a windswept day exactly 161 years after his murder, Silas Soule’s white marble headstone attracts few visitors. A small bouquet of artificial flowers adds a splash of color that sets this marker apart from the rows of other military graves, while a couple of patriotic pins lie in the dust at its base. By evening, someone has added an unopened can of Coors. The date the 26-year-old Soule died — April 23 — doesn’t draw nearly as many people to this section of Denver’s Riverside Cemetery as some other days. In October or November, the annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritu

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What’s Working: Swipe fees, AI and other legislation Colorado businesses are cheering or fearing

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 45.06. average rent, black, budget, cars, colorado, employment, enforcement, housing, infrastructure, sales tax, small business, tabor, traffic, unionize, working group

------------------------------ *Tamara Chuang* *Business/Technology Reporter* ------------------------------ *Quick links*: Swipe fees on sales tax | The new AI bill | Thieves steal CenturyLink’s copper wire | Another moon rover | NSF awards $45M for weather tech | SBA drought loans A more efficient state government? Who wouldn’t want that? That’s the gist of a bill supported by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce that passed in this legislative session and now awaits Gov. Jared Polis’ signature. Senate Bill 137 faced little opposition, but its passage was meaningful to local organizations repres

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Littwin: Trump’s gutting of Colorado funding is no more than a revenge tour

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 43.80. boulder, colorado, election, joe neguse, lawsuit, sustainability

Donald Trump’s grievance-filled war on Colorado has been well documented in the state media, including the Colorado Sun, and elsewhere. And now that documentation has gone to court. On Thursday, a federal judge heard a lawsuit that attempts to block the Trump administration from further gutting the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder. There are many reasons why Trump might go after the nation’s leading weather lab, starting with its invaluable research — Trump calls it “alarmism” — on climate change. Or maybe for its embrace of DEI policies. But the lawsuit — brought by

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Supreme Court of Virginia strikes down redistricting amendment, keeps current maps in place

Colorado Newsline

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.70. amicus brief, budget, civil rights, colorado, commission, election, lawsuit, petition, special election, turnout

[image: The Supreme Court of Virginia in Richmond on April 27, 2026. (Photo by Samantha Willis/Virginia Mercury)] The Supreme Court of Virginia in Richmond on April 27, 2026. (Photo by Samantha Willis/Virginia Mercury) The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday struck down the voter-approved redistricting amendment, upholding a lower court ruling that had declared the measure unconstitutional less than 24 hours after last week’s special election and briefly halted its implementation. State Democrats later said they would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of the United States. The high cour

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Nicolais: The Supreme Court has set America back nearly a century

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.72. black, board of education, civil rights, civil rights act, colorado, election, enforcement, kkk, landmark, racism, voting rights

In law school I wrote a research paper that declared *Brown v. Board of Education* did the country a disservice. No doubt, it is a monumental decision that put an end to the “separate but equal” lie and vanquished the worst ruling (so far) in the country’s history, *Plessy v. Ferguson*. But it also overshadowed another case, brought a decade before by the same attorney — future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall — to protect the right to vote for Black Americans. In 1944 *Smith v. Allwright* eliminated “white primaries” in the South. Before *Smith*, Democratic parties in the South (or mor

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Off-Leash Culture in Colorado Parks Is Putting People at Risk

Denver Westword

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.78. boulder, colorado, enforcement

[image: dog in Congress Park] In Denver, the municipal code prohibits dogs from running at large and requires them to be leashed in public spaces. The post Off-Leash Culture in Colorado Parks Is Putting People at Risk appeared first on Denver Westword. Hot Times Ahead: A Dozen Free Things to Do in Denver This WeekendCatie CheshireAudio By CarbonatixDenver park rangers issued 686 tickets for off-leash dogs from January through October 2025, making it the most common citation in the city’s parks behind parking violations. That number only tells part of the story. According to the Insurance Infor

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Every Opening and Closing This Week: Three Chef-Driven Restaurants Make Their Debut

Denver Westword

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.48. boulder, oau, pearl street

[image: a pizza] Chefs Justin Freeman and Theo Adley opened new spots, while other eateries expanded. The post Every Opening and Closing This Week: Three Chef-Driven Restaurants Make Their Debut appeared first on Denver Westword. Hot Times Ahead: A Dozen Free Things to Do in Denver This WeekendAntony BrunoAudio By CarbonatixIt was a big week for openings, including three new concepts from chefs who’d already made their mark on the culinary landscape and are now taking on new challenges.Theo Adley, who’s been offering destination-worthy dining in Lyons at Marigold, opened Heretik, a Basque and

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“Blossoms on a Poisoned Sea”: Disdain for the afflicted

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.19. bicycle, black, colorado

*Author’s note: Yuki, one of the two protagonists, is the only one in her family who has not contracted the Minamata disease. Victims could receive a tiny compensation from the government if they are certified that they have the disease. Yuki’s family is on the verge of starvation and goes into Minamata City to get Yuki’s baby sister , Tomoko, certified. This chapter shows how victims are treated by the non-afflicted people. * Who Was That Man? The next day the family set off to Minamata to apply for Tomoko’s certification. Yuki had offered to take her alone and fill out the paperwork, to save

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Colorado lawmakers seek to put ‘guardrails’ on proposed natural gas ballot measure

Colorado Newsline

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.09. ballot measure, colorado, infrastructure, public health, transit

A flare stack burns at a natural gas facility in Garfield County on May 16, 2023. (Chase Woodruff/Colorado Newsline) Colorado Democrats intend to introduce a bill in the waning days of the legislative session that would blunt the potential impact of a conservative ballot initiative to enshrine a right to buy natural gas in the state constitution. The bill would define what a “right” to natural gas would look like and seek to enact guardrails in order to protect public health and safety should the initiative pass. “We are working with public partners, with local government and with utilities, t

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As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages

Colorado Newsline

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.47. clean electricity, colorado, commission

[image: Water levels in Lake Mead have fallen as the Colorado River dwindles, threatening the water supply for cities and farmers in the West. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation via Nevada Current)] Water levels in Lake Mead have fallen as the Colorado River dwindles, threatening the water supply for cities and farmers in the West. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation via Nevada Current) From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that usually blankets the high country well into the summer. That snowp

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