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#Coleg Notebook: Funding the felony DUI, and voting on pot taxes...

Funding the felony DUI  With only $5 million in new spending available to each legislative chamber because of this year's expected TABOR (Taxpayer Bill of...

Polis: Solution on pot is not another dead-end lawsuit but to...

This time, it's the sheriffs. Led by Larimer County's Justin Smith, sheriffs in Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska say they're facing a "crisis of conscience" brought...

#Coleg Notebook: The right to bear buds and dehydrated booze

An infringement of constitutional rights; stricter legal controls that criminals will break anyway; a registry that could make specific citizens vulnerable to a hostile government...

#Coleg notebook: Ethics commission getting no help climbing out of rabbit...

Politics, suspicion foil effort to secure in-house legal counsel for state ethics commission Sen. Pat Steadman, D-Denver, was a portrait of frustration. Last week...

#Coleg Notebook: Rural development death by political cuts

Rural development conundrum in the pipes:  Despite early support and positive reviews, Vail Democrat Sen. Kerry Donovan's rural development bill went down with little comment from...

Listen up, America: 12 lessons from Colorado’s first year of legal...

We've hounded the experts while on holiday to bring you an invaluable list drawn from the nation's latest greatest experiment in permissibility: Here's a dozen Colorado-legalized-it...

Special regulation for weed edibles, but not for experimental uranium mining

Notes from the penultimate day of the 2014 legislative session

House creates special weed bank, promises more transparency on highway projects

House approves credit unions for weed shops The House gave final approval to HB 1398 today, a measure which allows licensed weed retailers to form...

Lawmakers decide how to spend pot tax cash; RMGO knows how...

Notes from the final fugue, a.k.a. the 115th day of the 2014 legislative session

Bipartisan shooting range approaches; pot representative to join DUI task force;...

Notes from the 90th day of the 2014 legislative session.