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Jun 12, 2024 · New requirements for concealed carry permits. Starting July 1, 2025, the requirements for obtaining a concealed carry permit will change. House Bill 1174 mandates that training classes to qualify for a concealed carry permit offer at least eight hours of instruction, including a live-fire test where participants shoot at least 50 rounds. Passing the live-fire test, as well as a written exam ...

Dec 31, 2024 · PUEBLO — Imagine slipping into a sleek capsule at a train-like station in Pueblo and arriving in Denver 11 minutes later. Regardless of the weather. That’s the vision that drives Swisspod Technologies as it works to complete a one-mile, full-scale hyperloop test track on the grounds of the former Pueblo Army Depot in southeastern Colorado.. In November, Swisspod unveiled 25 steel tubes ...

Dec 16, 2024 · A summer fling with the FLiRTs. The most obvious reason for this deflated COVID season is that we already had an infection peak recently. It came during the summer and early fall, and was due to a new gang of variants known collectively as the FLiRTs for the pattern of their mutations. The immunity gained during that wave, plus Colorado’s continued better-than-the-national-average vaccine ...

Dec 5, 2024 · Even the founders and an enthusiastic governor admit it sounds crazy: Charge up a train full of massive batteries with clean solar or wind energy out on the plains, then roll the trains to Denver or any other spot that’s low on power without using billion-dollar electrical lines.

Nov 5, 2024 · Ordinance 309 could have removed 15% to 20% of the total lamb slaughter capacity in the United States and in the worst-case scenario, impacted more than 2,700 workers including ranchers, distributors, grocers and butchers, as well as restaurant owners and employees, according to a Colorado State University assessment of the implications of 309 on the local, state, national and global meat ...

Nov 5, 2024 · The 2022 ruling left abortion up to states. Two years later, more than 25 million women ages 15 to 44, or about 2 in 5 nationally, now live in states where there are more restrictions on abortion access than there were before, according to The Associated Press. Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom, a coalition of abortion rights groups, is the main issue committee behind the ballot ...

Nov 17, 2024 · Lea este artículo en español. President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to kick off a mass deportation of immigrants living in Colorado illegally is setting up a showdown in a state with more than a half-million immigrants — a state that leans toward inclusion rather than exclusion, and that relies on immigrants for a healthy economy.

Nov 15, 2024 · Republicans flipped three seats in the Colorado House of Representatives, costing Democrats their supermajority in the chamber next year — an outcome that didn’t become clear until late Thursday night when the final votes were counted in a …

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