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Bryan Oller/KRCC News Ben Hellen collects ballots at the Citizen Service Center on Garden of the Gods Road in the northwest part of Colorado Springs on Election Day 2020. Colorado’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program, which voters approved in 2020, is facing a legal challenge that aims to invalidate the program before it starts.  The conservative non-profit, the Public Trust Institute, filed a lawsuit in Denver District Court alleging that the policy is unconstitutional because the fee wo...

Mayor Mike Coffman has been granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit he filed against his own city over campaign finance rules that he said violated his right to free speech.

LFC Foundation and Nike launch Game On to help local youngsters LFC Foundation and the clubs kit partner, Nike, have teamed up to launch Game On – a new collaborative programme to help more local youngsters access and benefit from a range of sports in their local area, as well as providing coaching opportunities through a new coaching academy. Game On will support young people aged seven to 12 from marginalised communities – specifically children from the...

Transcript: David Muhlbaum: With home prices on a tear, you might have more money in your house than you think. By that we mean home home equity: the value of your property minus whatever you still owe on it.  But turning that into cash that you can put to use can be complicated. Well dig into the equity market with an expert. Also, you might have heard of "sell in May and go away." Well, should you? All coming up in this episode of Your Moneys Worth. Stick around. David Muhlbaum: Welcome to...

Reasonable people should be able to differ over politics without coming to blows; that’s a given of civil society. In that same vein, Coloradans should be able to challenge city hall — without facing retribution. That also should be regarded as a given, but it appears to have eluded municipal officials in Estes Park. They want a court to award them and their attorneys more than $28,000 in legal fees, to be paid by a group of residents who had unsuccessfully challenged the city in District C...

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“The Aurora City Attorney’s Office is still reviewing the lawsuit, so it would be improper for us to comment on it at this time. However, the CAO defends any policy or law that is supported by the city council as a body," says Ryan Luby, a spokesperson for the city. Coffmans suit claims that the ordinances prohibition on a political candidate campaigning for other candidates or ballot initiatives is unconstitutional. It also argues that the ordinance prohibiting coordination among election ...

David Muhlbaum: Every so often the stock market has a “Wait, what?” moment when things don’t go quite as expected. The most recent instance was wild trading in a relatively obscure stock called GameStop. Senior investing editor Kyle Woodley breaks down what happened and what it means to all of us. Also, General Motors says it’s going electric, basically. So will your next car be electric? That’s all coming up. Stick around. David Muhlbaum: Welcome to Your Money’s Worth. I’m sen...

BOULDER — Two Boulder residents with backing from a Republican-aligned legal group are suing the city in an attempt to overturn its yearslong moratorium on oil and gas drilling on city-owned public space. In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court of Colorado this week, John and Valerie Wells claimed that the city’s ongoing halt on new drilling within its borders has restricted their ability to extract mineral rights that John Wells secured in 1981. That property lies just northwest of...