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Event: Video presentation from Sunshine Week with Ira Flatow: Closed Doors: Open Democracies?
Closed Doors: Open Democracies? Saturday, May 10, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
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Capitol Conversation
Lawmakers debated hundreds bills, heard hours of testimony and now Colorado’s 119 day legislative session has come to an end.
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EPA Air Quality Standards for Colorado
Colorado will likely have more high-pollution days in the years to come thanks to new air quality standards recently set by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Walking Off the Worry
Troops from Ft. Carson have been busy in recent weeks in Iraq. They’ve been seeing combat every day after a period of relative calm.
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Transportation Gridlock
Governor Bill Ritter has finished his second legislative session since getting elected to office.
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Legislative Session is Over
State lawmakers wrapped up their 120-day legislative session yesterday. A day earlier than scheduled.
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Personhood Initiative
Backers of a proposed initiative to amend Colorado’s constitution to define an embryo as a person are gathering signatures to secure a spot on the ballot by next week.
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Constitutional Reform
State lawmakers are pushing ahead with a measure In the final hours of the legislative session that would make it harder for citizens to change to the state constitution.
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Protective Orders
A measure that aims to make it easier to prosecute people who violate orders of protection has cleared both chambers of the statehouse. Prosecutors say the bill would protect victims.
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Capitol Conversation
Lawmakers debated hundreds of bills this legislative session, but there’s one key issue that didn’t gain much traction. Transportation. Measures to improve roads and infrastructure largely fell flat.
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Gay Rights Measure Moves Forward
A measure that aims to protect gay, bisexual and transgendered people from business and housing discrimination cleared both chambers of Colorado’s state house on Friday. Bente Birkeland reports from Denver.
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New Testing for High School Students
Colorado high school students would no longer need to take the annual school assessment tests known as the CSAP under a new bill that initially cleared the house on Wednesday.
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The Bible for Those on their Way
Dr. Walter Brueggemann, author of Mandate to Difference is spending the weekend in Colorado Springs.