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LEGISLATURE:
TEACHER TENURE
DENVER—Backers of a controversial proposal to change the way teachers get and keep job protections think there’s still time to pass the bill this year. The bill is up for its first hearing in the House Thursday and bill sponsor Rep. Christine Scanlan believes the education committee will endorse it. By Colleen Slevin.
COLO MEDICAL MARIJUANA
DENVER—Proposed regulations for medical marijuana dispensaries are up for another vote in the Colorado Senate. Senators are expected to hold a final vote on the legislation Thursday, a day after giving preliminary approval to the rules. NewsNow will stand if no action is taken Thursday.
SHEEPHERDS WORK CONDITIONS
DENVER—The Senate Agriculture Committee takes up a bill that would set up a task force to work with the federal government to resolve complaints by immigrant sheepherders against employers amid skepticism from ranchers that it will solve any problems. Backers of the legislation say foreign workers are sometimes subjected to 90-hour work weeks for anywhere from $600 to $750 a month on ranches in the West, but agricultural interests are worried a task force will set a bad precedent. By Steven K. Paulson. Hearing begins at 1:30 p.m.
Also:
— XGR-PAID TO READ—A proposal to pay low-income children for each book they read is stirring controversy at the Capitol. The bipartisan bill narrowly passed its first vote in the Senate Thursday.
AROUND COLORADO:
— COMMERCE CITY POLICE SHOOTING—Commerce City police say an officer shot and killed a wanted man after he allegedly rammed his vehicle into a patrol car.
— HITLER SCHOOL POSTER—The superintendent of a Colorado high school says a teacher who taped a cartoon poster of Adolf Hitler on her classroom door made a bad judgment call but was not being malicious or racist.
— GUNNISON CHILD DEATH—Court records show a man accused of killing his 1-year-old son was charged with child abuse 11 days before the boy’s death.
— CHARTER SCHOOL PROBE—An independent audit says a Pueblo and Denver charter school network overpaid its employees and engaged in nepotism.
— CSU STUDENT DEATH—Authorities say the son of Boulder’s first prosecutor to work on the JonBenet Ramsey case has died of an alcohol and drug overdose at a Fort Collins college party.
— COLO TEEN MURDER CHARGE—A 14-year-old boy charged in the shooting death of his younger brother told a Colorado Springs detective he hoped what happened was “just a nightmare.”
SPORTS:
— TAEKWONDO-DOPING—An American taekwondo athlete has been suspended for six months after testing positive for a prohibited substance.
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