Tag: Chris Howes
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Colorado policymakers should adopt Aurora’s tougher approach on retail theft, councilmember says
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Some Aurora officials are pushing for more strident penalties against retail theft statewide, urging policymakers to adopt what the city has enacted. Notably, the city lowered the threshold amount for mandatory sentencing for retail theft, increased the jail time for repeat offenders and tackled “dine…
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Meth contamination in libraries is tip of the iceberg, experts say
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Meth contamination forced three Denver area libraries to close in the last two months, but they’re not the only public spaces experiencing the kind of substance abuse that poses a health hazard to unsuspecting Coloradans. Drug contamination is increasingly becoming a pernicious problem in the state — so much so that it’s keeping one company that…
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Confusion swirls as Colorado imposes new retail delivery fee, catching businesses by surprise
Colorado consumers will start noticing a 27-cent fee on receipts for almost everything that gets delivered to them, including restaurant food, after Colorado’s new “retail delivery fee” took effect July 1. The fee must be collected and paid to the state by retailers “on all deliveries by motor vehicle to a location in Colorado with…