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DENVER—Newspapers in Colorado have won another round in their battle to retain legal-notice requirements for county governments.
A Senate committee voted 3-2 Wednesday against a bill to allow Colorado counties to publish legal notices online if they prefer, instead of paying a newspaper to print the ads. A similar bill was previously defeated in the House.
Republican Sen. Kent Lambert of El Paso County sponsored the change and pointed out that Colorado’s legal-notice requirements date to 1901, when “horses and wagons” delivered the news. One lawmaker called the requirement a government subsidy to newspapers.
The Colorado Press Association opposed the change.
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