Longmont leaps into broadband venture despite other cities’ failures

Sunana Batra / Colorado Public Advocate

As the city of Longmont gets ready to forge ahead with a municipally-owned broadband program that will compete for customers in the marketplace, critics are pointing to parallels with similar, government-run ventures that ran off the rails…

May 9 @ 15:37

Potential conflicts pose ticklish issue for lawyer-lawmakers | SEE VIDEO

Staff / Colorado Public Advocate

Now sitting on Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk is legislation that critics in the business community and the legislature say will unleash a torrent of groundless discrimination lawsuits against Colorado employers—and create a potential windfall for plaintiffs and their attorneys.

May 2 @ 17:27

Denver’s new ‘Clover Leaf University’ cultivates interest in pot farming

Victor Skinner / EAGnews.org

Colorado recently approved an interesting new alternative education program that launched its first classes this month.

It’s called Clover Leaf University, and it’s a marijuana cultivation program that’s accredited by the Colorado Department of Education.

Apr 30 @ 23:54

Immigrant-tuition break now the law in Colorado

Lark Turner / EdNews Colorado

Hundreds of students, advocates, legislators and educators crowded a room at Metropolitan State University’s Auraria campus on Monday to watch Gov. John Hickenlooper sign a bill making undocumented students…

Apr 30 @ 23:40