The first regular session of the 73rd General Assembly gets underway in Denver on Wednesday, and it will look a lot like the special session that concluded just over a month ago.
Once gaveling in and taking care of necessary duties, lawmakers will quickly work through seven bills to fix some errors before adjourning until February, when the bulk of the legislation will be introduced.
At that time, lawmakers are expected to focus on pandemic relief, education and health care, with a public option health care bill still being planned.
The delay developed to allow more COVID-19 vaccinations to be distributed among the Colorado population, including among lawmakers who would be convening at the statehouse, and with the hope that the pandemic would start to wind down.
Holbert said all Republicans want is a voice in the big decisions, and chance to have some say in how bills are written and how many is spent, long before
3 arrested in Denver protests, city offices close early
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DENVER â Three people were arrested Wednesday during protests in Denver over President-elect Joe Biden s victory in the Electoral College, police said.
Crowds gathered in the downtown area through the afternoon Wednesday, but they remained peaceful, unlike Trump rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
The three arrests were for disturbing the peace, having a taser and fighting.
City offices and buildings in the downtown Denver area were closing early Wednesday afternoon, officials announced.
It was the year superlatives fell short.
From a jam-packed January that opened in the midst of a presidential primary and plunged head-long into only the third impeachment trial in the nation s history, to February and its leap day, which couldn t explain why it felt like the month that would never end, until March arrived and time slowed to a glacial crawl â from the start, 2020 was all about jerking from one extreme to the next. Weâve had a pandemic with the flu in 1918; weâve had economic strife with the Great Recession and the Great Depression; weâve had civil unrest in the late 60s, early 70s. But we havenât had them all at the same time,â said Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen last summer, before the divisive election that also played out against that backdrop.