Leading Colorado Democrats and the state’s oil and gas industry announced a preemptive armistice Monday — one that seeks to defuse the latest round of dueling ballot initiatives and legislation aimed at the industry and its environmental impacts. The proposals, described to reporters by Gov. Jared Polis and legislative leadership, include imposing a new per-barrel … Read more
Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law Monday that officially eliminates most restrictions on how many unrelated roommates can live together in Colorado. House Bill 1007 prohibits local governments from enacting occupancy limits, which Polis and other critics of the policy have derided as discriminatory and outdated. Roughly two dozen Colorado cities have such … Read more
More than 19 million people are expected to benefit from the increase of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant, commonly referred to as the R350 grant, which will see an increase to R370 from April this year. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced this on Thursday in the National Assembly. “I am pleased to say … Read more
AGARTALA: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for sanctioning a grant of Rs 20 crore for infrastructure development at the state-owned Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) University. The Union Ministry of Education allocated funds to 78 universities nationwide, including MBB University, as part of … Read more
When voters passed Proposition 123 last year, housing and local government officials across the state were pleased that the state had supported a permanent affordable housing fund. But they had a nagging anxiety: To get a share of the nearly $300 million promised by the program, cities and counties had to voluntarily opt-in and agree … Read more
