Tag: Julie Gonzales
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Colorado Senate panel approves sweeping fentanyl bill on narrow vote
A Senate panel on Thursday evening narrowly approved what policymakers hope is a robust response to Colorado’s spiraling fentanyl crisis. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted, 3-2, to advance House Bill 1326, after reviewing 19 amendments for several hours. The measure is the General Assembly’s sweeping attempt to confront fatal overdoses, which have surged nationwide over the…
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Colorado Senate Democrats pass abortion bill on party-line vote, send bill to Polis
After 13 hours of debate Tuesday and another two hours on Wednesday, the state Senate passed, on a party-line 20-15 vote, House Bill 1279, which would enshrine in Colorado law the unequivocal right to an abortion. The bill was not amended during its passage in the Senate and heads directly to Gov. Jared Polis, who is expected…
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State Senate panel mirrors House, approves abortion bill in another late-night hearing
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Just one week removed from a 14-hour hearing in the House Health & Insurance Committee, it was the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee’s turn for a late-night hearing on House Bill 1279, the Reproductive Health Equity Act. The Senate hearing was only minutes shorter, wrapping up just…
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Senate Democrats to pick next leader tomorrow
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Senate Democrats are poised to settle the Capitol intrigue over who will succeed Senate President Leroy Garcia, D-Pueblo, and potentially fill other leadership positions when they meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Garcia triggered the leadership upheaval last week when he announced he would step down…
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Homicides in Denver: Nearly half of all recent arrests tied to person under supervision
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The last words Christopher Rhodes remembers his ex-girlfriend telling him as she gasped her dying breath echo deep in his soul months after her killing. He found Taryn Meyer, the cellphone in her hand, the 911 dispatcher still on the line. Meyer was slouched behind a…
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Lawmakers give bill allowing hospital visits another chance after heartbreaking testimony from families affected by COVID
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Richard Gillham, a resident of Peetz in northern Logan County, was a farmer all his life. Rim Ranch, which his family owns, is one of Colorado’s Centennial farms, a designation awarded to farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years.…
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Colorado Democratic lawmakers to sponsor bill upholding women’s right to abortion in 2022 session
The prospect that the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade is pushing Colorado’s Democratic women legislators to act, long before a decision from the court is likely. The nation’s highest court is reviewing Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a 2018 Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks.…