Tag: Rhonda Fields
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Aurora’s attempt to ‘double dip’ in state, local cigarette tax money, blocked by appeals court
Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday decided state lawmakers intended to continue prohibiting local governments from receiving their share of centrally-collected cigarette tax revenue if they enact their own sales taxes on cigarettes. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals agreed a 2019 law designed to give localities more control over nicotine products nevertheless blocked…
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Q&A with Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg | At the end of 16 years of public service
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save State Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, is the only one of 100 lawmakers in the 2022 session who has served for a full 16 years: four consecutive two-year terms in the House followed by two consecutive four-year terms in the Senate. First elected in 2006 to…
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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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Judge blocks Aurora from enforcing felony ban against ex-council candidate
An Arapahoe County judge has permanently blocked Aurora from enforcing against a 2021 council candidate the city charter’s prohibition on people holding elected office if they have ever received a felony conviction. District Court Judge John E. Scipione agreed with former at-large city council candidate Candice Bailey that the council’s vote in August to add…
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Colorado’s deadliest shooters: Male, mostly young and signs of mental illness
Dylan Klebold wielded an Intratec TEC-DC9, an assault weapon originally conceived as a machine gun for South African police. His friend Eric Harris carried a Hi Point 995, a cheap short-barreled rifle. Both also brought shotguns sawed off to spray ammunition widely. Together they fired 188 rounds at Columbine High School, killing 12 classmates and…
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Senate votes to let Coloradans carry concealed guns without a permit
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Senate gave a narrow passage to “constitutional carry” — carrying a concealed weapon without a permit — Thursday morning, one of the last gun bills filed so far this session. The Republican legislation likely faces the same outcome other gun bills have received…