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Colorado Springs releases preliminary changes to Council district boundaries
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Colorado Springs releases preliminary changes to Council district boundaries

By Breeanna Jent | Colorado Politics, via The Gazette A preliminary map of new boundaries for each of Colorado Springs' six City Council districts accounts for anticipated continued growth on the city's north and northeast sides. District 2, the city's northernmost district, and District 6, the northeast and eastern district, will shrink to account for expected future population growth in both districts, City Clerk Sarah Johnson told reporters Wednesday. "... We know that over the next four years it's just going to get bigger in some places in town. So the focus was really just trying to take a look at where that growth is happening and try to balance that population," she said. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Colorado Democratic candidate spends campaign money on hair, clothes, makeup
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Colorado Democratic candidate spends campaign money on hair, clothes, makeup

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics Is Democratic candidate Vivian Smotherman, who's running for one of Colorado's hottest state senate seats, violating Colorado's campaign finance laws and regulations? Smotherman has used more than $1,000 of campaign contributions to pay for clothes, hair styling and a consultant (who's also the hairstylist) on her appearance. The state's campaign finance manual doesn't specifically prohibit a candidate from spending campaign contributions on hair and clothes. Still, it states candidates "may not use contributions for personal purposes not reasonably related to the election of the candidate." The manual's only specified language on permissible use of campaign contributions for personal use is for child or dependent care. READ THE FULL STO...
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Pro-abortion, ranked choice groups rake in big bucks for November elections
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Pro-abortion, ranked choice groups rake in big bucks for November elections

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics With five weeks to go until Election Day, the spending is ramping up for committees fighting for people's vote. And some interesting contributors have surfaced. Not surprisingly — and given the onslaught of television ads — Proposition 131, which deals with ranked choice voting, has brought in the biggest dollars. The measure would set up ranked choice voting and open primaries for Colorado elections. While both major political parties oppose the measure, it has been endorsed by Gov. Jared Polis, the League of Women Voters, and on Tuesday, by U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Records: Venezuelan gangs terrorized each other before entering national spotlight
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Records: Venezuelan gangs terrorized each other before entering national spotlight

By Carol McKinley | Colorado Politics Before they became national news, young Venezuelan gang members in Colorado were harassing each other at gunpoint, stealing cars to commit other crimes and crashing wherever they could find a bed, according to arrest documents obtained by The Denver Gazette. One particular set of crimes involving two of the 10 Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members arrested by Aurora police involved an entanglement of mostly 20-something Venezuelan immigrants in a what appeared to be a free-for-all turf war. Documents reviewed by The Denver Gazette tell the stories.  READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Jefferson County candidates offer views on budget, housing, metro districts
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Jefferson County candidates offer views on budget, housing, metro districts

By Deborah Grigsby | Colorado Politics Candidates for the Jefferson County Board of Commission offered competing visions, at times clashing approaches to priorities and spending, during a debate on Thursday night.  In District 1, which covers the northern part of the county and includes Arvada and Westminster, current commissioner and former state lawmaker Tracy Kraft-Tharp is vacating the seat. Last year, she announced that she would not seek reelection. There are four candidates vying for the position. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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More than $22 million has been spent on five of Denver’s 12 ballot initiatives
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More than $22 million has been spent on five of Denver’s 12 ballot initiatives

By Marissa Ventrelli | Colorado Politics More than $22 million has been spent on campaigns surrounding five of the 12 initiatives that will appear on Denver's November ballot, covering topics like animal welfare, sales tax increases and expanded union bargaining rights. Follow this link to see a breakdown of what each of the five initiatives are, how much has been spent for or against them, and their top contributors as of Sept. 23.  READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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J.D. Vance, potentially the next VP, set to attend high-dollar fundraiser in Denver in October
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J.D. Vance, potentially the next VP, set to attend high-dollar fundraiser in Denver in October

By Ernest Luning | Colorado Politics Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is scheduled to headline a fundraiser hosted by former U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner in Denver in October, with tickets starting at $3,300 apiece, according to an invitation to the event. Set for Oct. 8 at an undisclosed location, the fundraiser, billed as an evening reception, will be the Ohio senator's first publicly announced visit to Colorado this year. Last month, shortly after naming Vance as his running mate, former President Donald Trump attended a private fundraiser in Aspen with tickets priced as high as $500,000 per couple. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Colorado Springs man sues Rep. Elisabeth Epps, attorney general for blocking him on X
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Colorado Springs man sues Rep. Elisabeth Epps, attorney general for blocking him on X

By Marissa Ventrelli | Colorado Politics A Colorado Springs man is suing Rep. Elisabeth Epps, D-Denver, for blocking him on X (formerly Twitter), an act he alleges violates his First Amendment rights.  According to the lawsuit, which names Epps in both her official capacity as a legislator and her personal capacity as a Colorado resident and Colorado Attorney Philip Weiser in his personal capacity, Epps blocked Michael Freeman from her @elisabethepps X account following an exchange about a bill she was sponsoring during the 2024 legislative session.  Freeman, who describes himself as "politically independent and a staunch advocate for constitutional rights and rational legislation," goes by the handle @TheAntiGrifter and frequently posts and retweets right-leaning conten...
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Candidates for Colorado Board of Education agree state falls short in education funding, teacher pay
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Candidates for Colorado Board of Education agree state falls short in education funding, teacher pay

By Thelma Grimes | Colorado Politics While not all of the candidates running for a seat on the State Board of Education are in head-to-head matchups against each other heading into the November election, the seven candidates agree that not enough money is going toward funding public education in Colorado. Bluntly putting it, Democratic candidate Kathy Gebhardt said, “I can’t think of any place that it’s not failing” when it comes to the state’s public education funding. Starting with operations, Gebhardt, who is running unopposed in District 2, said teachers need to be paid adequate salaries, which creates teacher shortages. While some lawmakers have paid more attention to special education programs, which are seeing more funding, the money remains insufficient, she said.  READ...
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