Politics - The Durango Herald

Lawns bill to go before ag committee

DENVER – Cities and developers have a message for senators: Keep off the grass. Today is the day of reckoning for Sen. Ellen Roberts’ bill to limit the size of suburban lawns in o...

DATE: Feb 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bill offers tuition break for tribes

FLC official says measure will help Native Americans

DATE: Feb 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Measure to keep seizure-prone off Colo. roads fails

Rep. Coram says discussion of problem needed

DATE: Feb 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Election measures roil GOP

Ellen Roberts drops support; only Democrats sponsor bill

DATE: Feb 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Senate passes Roberts’ election bill

DENVER – Two years made all the difference for a plan hatched in Southwest Colorado to allow small counties to elect their commissioners by district. The Senate passed a bill Mond...

DATE: Feb 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Gun bill repeal shot down

It aimed to reverse Colorado’s latest background-check laws

DATE: Feb 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Anxiety builds over state water plan

Governor fuels familiar discussion

DATE: Jan 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wildlife agency talks big cuts

Interest declines in fishing, hunting

DATE: Jan 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News

Dems buck attempt to delay renewable power standard

DENVER – Democrats on Wednesday turned back an attempt to delay a renewable energy mandate they passed last year. Republicans have charged that the mandate is part of a “war on ru...

DATE: Jan 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News