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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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Pot tax passes House; prospects with the voters less certain
Valerie Richardson / The Colorado Observer
The Colorado House gave initial approval Monday to a special sales tax on recreational marijuana that was too high for Republicans, but just high enough for Democrats.
The chamber ended two days of heated debate by approving House Bill 1318…
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Legal pot advocates say lawmakers are trying to thwart voters
Valerie Richardson / The Colorado Observer
Colorado was the first state to legalize recreational marijuana, and it could become the first state to repeal it.
A proposal being floated in the state legislature would send two ballot measures to the voters in November. The first would ask for…
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Teacher reforms put on ice until next legislative session
Todd Engdahl / EdNews Colorado
Sen. Mike Johnston said Wednesday he will not introduce a teacher licensing bill this year, saying there’s not enough time left to consider such a complex topic during the 2013 session, which must adjourn by May 8.
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School-funding revamp moves forward at State Capitol
Todd Engdahl / EdNews Colorado
The House Education Committee voted 7-6 late Monday to pass Senate Bill 13-213, the proposal to overhaul the state’s K-12 funding system. The panel approved some key amendments to the bill, but those don’t appear to be significant enough to ease all the concerns…
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More renewable-energy mandates green-lighted in state Senate
Leslie Jorgensen / The Colorado Observer
The Democrat-controlled Senate approved legislation Monday to include methane gas recapture from coal mines and synthetic gas produced by waste in state’s list of renewable energy sources. But that measure is attached to an expensive hike…
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Discrimination law that was repealed in Wisconsin now pending in Colorado
Sunana Batra / Colorado Public Advocate
A controversial legislative proposal that would significantly expand Colorado employers’ liability for discrimination claims was repealed by Wisconsin lawmakers after only a couple of years on that state’s books.
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Going a-courting for the guv’s veto
“How much is one vote worth? If it’s the governor’s, it’s either 46 cents or tens…of thousands of dollars.”
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