Author: Marianne Goodland

A House committee on Monday greenlighted a bill that critics said would make it more difficult to obtain records through the state’s open records law and canceled a proposal that would have reversed a law that has made it harder for the public and reporters to know what lawmakers are doing. House Bill 1242 sought…

Animal rights groups lost at the ballot box last November in their efforts to ban big-cat hunting and trapping, but the fight was not over, as some lawmakers pushed to remove hunting, trapping and fishing as “primary” methods for “necessary wildlife harvests.” The proposal ultimately died in the House Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources Committee…

At four rural community colleges in Colorado, 77 students are in the pipeline for teaching careers in rural Eastern Plains and southeastern Colorado school districts. It’s part of the NxtGEN, or Next Generation of Teacher Preparation program, a higher education program funded by the U.S. Department of Education. However, federal funding cuts from the Trump…

Citing fiscal worries, legislative leaders on Tuesday approved a proposal to put 10 interim and year-round committees on hold that would otherwise meet once the legislature concludes its 2025 session on May 7. They also said they would not accept lawmakers’ requests for new interim panels, known as “letter committees,” this year. The Executive Committee…