Sherrie Peif

As the legislative session nears an end for another year, with Colorado lawmakers scrambling to finish up bills, citizen-initiated measures hoping to make the ballot in 2024 are also piling up to enact new laws.

DENVER — Colorado is one of just 21 states that allow citizens’ ballot initiatives to change state statute or amend the state Constitution, and one of just 14 states allow that allow for direct initiatives, meaning the state’s legislature does not have to confirm the statute.

DENVER — While two ballot initiatives dealing with Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) are already either gathering signatures or in the petition approval phase with the secretary of state, two more citizen-initiated measures that would completely upend Colorado elections are going through an appeals process with the Colorado Supreme Court.

COLORADO SPRINGS — A group that says it has a “deep-rooted responsibility to protect our kids,” is using an all-volunteer force to circulate petitions for two possible ballot measures that would change the way school districts handle students who claim to identify as the opposite gender and bar biological males from participating in girls’ sports.

DENVER — After more than a year of back and forth negotiations with a state agency, along with an expensive but ultimately victorious lawsuit, Complete Colorado has finally received a check from the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) for a partial reimbursement of legal costs related to HCPF unlawfully withholding documents in response to a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) request.

BOULDER — A pair of University of Colorado (CU) Regents are leading the charge against an effort to ban concealed carry on all campus buildings and property, a move the full board is scheduled to take at its upcoming meeting.

LAKEWOOD — A pair of Jefferson County Democrats are raising and spending big bucks to try and win a hotly contested legislative primary, which has mostly become a competition over which candidate is further to the political left.

Corporon said he was notified his show was canceled in mid-to late-June.

DENVER —Hot on the heels of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, Colorado’s 6th Congressional District Representative Jason Crow went on national television to call for a cooling down of political rhetoric, but his own history of attacks against Trump, including in just past several weeks, sing a very different tune.

LAKEWOOD —Jefferson County voters will be asked for a third time in four election cycles to pass a “de-TABOR” measure, allowing the county to permanently keep and spend over-collected tax revenue that would otherwise be refunded back to county residents under the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR).