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2020 legislative session

Here are five hot spots of the 2020 legislative session Businesses...

John Herrick -
A political advertisement, paid for by a Washington, D.C.-based group made up of mostly drugmakers, insurance companies and private hospitals, aired last month on...
Criminal Justice

Gun reform talks under way at the state Capitol Passage of...

John Herrick -
Rep. Tom Sullivan, a Democrat from Centennial, has a long list of gun reforms he hopes to see become law.  He wants to require gun...
Potential buyers try out guns displayed on an exhibitor's table at an expo in 2016. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Politics

Has impeachment quashed gun control prospects? House Republicans say impeachment inquiry...

Robin Bravender -
WASHINGTON — Gun control policy, not impeachment, was supposed to dominate the discourse on Capitol Hill this fall.  In early August — just two months...
A customer at ABQ Guns in Albuquerque. Recent mass shootings have reignited the debate over gun legislation, including red flag laws and expanded background checks.
Public Policy

Where does Colorado’s Congressional delegation stand on gun access?

Allison Stevens - States Newsroom -
WASHINGTON – A heated debate over gun control awaits the U.S. Congress when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill next month, but Colorado Republicans don't...
A Denver Public Schools seventh-grader reads to a community gathering on May 29, 2019 from a last will and testament she wrote in her cellphone notes after a recent lockdown at her middle school. (Photo by Grace Carson)
Denver

DPS students to lawmakers, administrators on gun violence: ‘Please, I’m begging...

Grace Carson -
The girl, a seventh grader, tiny in an oversized red T-shirt, her hair pulled back into a bun, stood before a group of adults...
Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper kisses Roslyn Vaughan while making a presidential campaign stop at a house party in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 27, 2019 (Photo by Evan Semón)
Editors' Picks

In presidential run, Colorado’s Hickenlooper pushes compromise in an uncompromising time...

Susan Greene -
It is a late Friday afternoon in early February and passengers at Gate 12 of Washington’s Reagan National Airport are displeased. “Fucking United,” a lawyer-lobbyist...
Potential buyers try out guns displayed on an exhibitor's table at an expo in 2016. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Ask the Indy

Ask The Indy: How far will Colorado Democrats go with gun...

Alex Burness -
The Ask the Indy project is a way for our readers who’ve got pressing questions on policy and politics to put them directly to...
Center Well

Udall MIA on effort to close gun-show loophole

Mike Lillis -
There were calls to close it in the wake of the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School. There were calls to close it in 2007 following the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech. So far, though, Congress has done nothing to address the so-called gun-show loophole, which allows unlicensed vendors to sell firearms without performing background checks on the buyers. That kind of lawmaker inaction hasn’t gone unnoticed by the family members of some of the gun-show loophole victims.
Center Well

As mass shootings surge, Congress looks away

Mike Lillis -
In recent weeks more than 60 people — including seven police officers — have been killed in multiple-death shootings from coast to coast.

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