January 11, 2019 03:20 PM UTC

Colorado Week in Review: 1/11/19

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• by: ProgressNow Colorado

• Gov. Jared Polis unveils ambitious, expensive plans in first State of the State. Here’s the speech, annotated.
• West Middle School uses $20,000 technology grant to address homelessness
• Frontier Airlines pilots overwhelmingly approve contract
• Closing Colorado Coal Would Save $2.5 Billion. A New Proposal Could Unlock The Coal-To-Clean Shift.
• City of Denver unveils Turn Over a New Leaf program to wipe clean low-level marijuana convictions
• Denver could become the first US city to decriminalize magic mushrooms
• Colorado exhausts budget for free radon testing kits in less than 12 hours
• Colorado DMV: About 100,000 drivers overcharged on vehicle renewal registrations because of glitch
• Colorado appeals judge who called colleague “the little Mexican” in email resigns amid allegations of racism, impropriety
• White identity group alleges Suthers, city, violated free speech rights
• Federal workers in Denver protest shutdown: ‘Do your job so that we can do ours.’
• Billionaire Robert Mercer’s Yuma County sheriff’s badge has been revoked