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The Unaffiliated | Jared Polis’ new veto record — by the numbers

14 hours ago | coloradosun.com | Jesse Paul |Taylor Dolven |Erica Breunlin

Gov. Jared Polis set a new PR this year — in annual vetoes. The governor, who finished his bill-signing tour Wednesday, rejected 11 measures passed by the legislature. That’s up from his previous record of 10 in 2023. A look at the bills Polis vetoed by the numbers:You can check out our veto list here. We’ve written a lot about the fractured relationship between Polis and Democrats in the legislature. The higher number of vetoes this year is a direct reflection of that.
Colorado law requiring people buying guns to be 21 or older can stand, federal judge rules

1 day ago | coloradosun.com | Taylor Dolven

Colorado’s law requiring people to be at least 21 years old to buy a gun can stand, a federal judge in Colorado ruled Thursday. The ruling is a definitive win for gun control advocates and a blow to the group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and two young people hoping to purchase guns, who sued Gov. Jared Polis to block the law in 2023. Chief U.S. District Judge Philip A. Brimmer sided with Polis and said in his ruling that the plaintiffs could not prove that the law violated their rights.
Jared Polis ordered Colorado labor department to turn over personal information after ICE subpoena, lawsuit claims

1 day ago | coloradosun.com | Jennifer Brown |Megan Verlee

Gov. Jared Polis ordered the state labor department to turn over personal information about people who are providing homes for unaccompanied immigrant children after receiving a subpoena from the Trump administration, according to a whistleblower lawsuit filed Wednesday. The details of the subpoena were revealed in the lawsuit filed by a director in the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment who argues that turning over the information is a violation of state law.
Here’s what we know about how measles spread on a Turkish Airlines flight to Denver

1 day ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold

Colorado has identified two more cases of measles tied to a Turkish Airlines flight into Denver, bringing the total number of infections among Colorado residents linked to the flight to seven. The newest infections are in a Denver resident who was aboard the flight and an El Paso County resident who crossed paths with an infectious traveler in the airport. The flight, Turkish Airlines flight 201, took off from Istanbul and landed at Denver International Airport on May 13.
Measles on a plane

2 days ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold |Shannon Mullane |Michael Booth

Hey there, Colorado, and welcome to another edition of The Temperature. I’ve been thinking a bit lately about sliding doors — specifically the sliding doors at the entrance to the Children’s Hospital Colorado emergency department in Aurora. About two weeks ago, they slid open when my wife and I carried our infant inside for a check on his oxygen levels as he dealt with that made it hard for him to breathe and put a cannula up his nose. He was ultimately fine then and is fine-r now.
Colorado counties, towns step up to fund Forest Service workers amid federal budget cuts

2 days ago | coloradosun.com | Jason Blevins

As the Forest Service contracts with slashed staff and funding, local communities are stepping up with funding for backcountry trail crews, visitor education campaigns and management of campsites and trailheads. “These folks need help.
Eagle County sees US Supreme Court ruling having little impact on Colorado concerns with Uinta Basin Railway

3 days ago | coloradosun.com | Jason Blevins

The U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Uinta Basin Railway proposal in Utah published Thursday was a consequential ruling when it comes to the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, narrowing the scope of the legislation and giving federal agencies more room to conduct their own analysis with more limited interference from courts.
Colorado kayakers paddle to rescue a dog that ran a 60-foot waterfall in Mexico

3 days ago | coloradosun.com | Jason Blevins

Paul Palmer was at the lip of the 60-foot Tomata 1 waterfall on his first day kayaking in Veracruz, Mexico in December. His crew of expert kayakers was planning to paddle some less daunting, but still demanding, drops downstream when one of them spotted something moving in the pool below. “We were at the lip and someone says ‘There’s a dog down there,’” said Palmer, a professional kayaker from Colorado Springs who won a national freestyle kayaking title in 2017.
“From pasture to table”: This Colorado classroom is a commercial kitchen where kids cut, sell meat

4 days ago | coloradosun.com | Erica Breunlin

OAK CREEK — One by one, the woolly, wide-eyed lambs take their turn nestled up in the lap of a stranger, legs dangling in the air, waiting patiently on their backs for what’s to come. They lay mostly still and fall quiet, sometimes squirming, as students take their turn tending to each lamb, vaccinating and tagging them before shortening their tails and castrating the males.
3 more cases tied to Turkish Airlines flight

5 days ago | coloradosun.com | John Ingold

Colorado on Sunday reported three more measles cases tied to a Turkish Airlines flight that landed at Denver International Airport last month, bringing the total number of infections connected to the flight to at least six. Five of those cases — including all three announced Sunday — are in Colorado residents, meaning the incident now meets the official definition of an outbreak. However, there is no evidence so far of ongoing transmission occurring in Colorado.