Nick Coltrain
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Statehouse reporter for @DenverPost
Denver, CO
Joined June 2009
RT @SethKlamann: Hansen ignored repeated phone calls last week asking about his coming resignation. His reported new employer, the La Plata….
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RT @mattsebastian: 5 takeaways from Colorado’s 2024 election — including reactions as a new Trump era looms by @NCo….
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Tuesday’s election offered a wide range of results to digest, both in Colorado and nationally — at times going in different directions. Here are major takeaways from voters’ decis…
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RT @SethKlamann: Years of neglect & mismanagement, from unsafe conditions to armed property managers allegedly serving fraudulent eviction….
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CBZ Management’s representatives have engaged in a public campaign to blame its problems at Aurora apartment complexes on recent gang activity. But reporting by The Denver Post reveal a more …
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RT @ElliottWenzler: Found some interesting data on Western Slope state legislators’ voting records from this past session while doing elect….
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RT @ehernandez: What school security technologies are CO schools using?. AI cameras with facial recognition. Vape sensors that can detect T….
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Nearly 400 cameras with artificial-intelligence capabilities are scattered across the Cheyenne Mountain School District in Colorado Springs — and they can find you.
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RT @AlvvJess: Hi all! ✨Today is my first day at the @denverpost! I’ll be covering all things business, including commercial real estate. Ti….
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RT @SethKlamann: Gov. Jared Polis is set to speak at the DNC tonight, the same night as Gov. Tim Walz’s convention speech. Polis introduced….
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RT @SethKlamann: An anonymous donation opened the last section of land for affordable housing in Steamboat. Three years later, voters rejec….
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After nearly three years, Steamboat Springs’ latest — and most ambitious — attempt to launch an affordable housing plan at Brown Ranch to serve its workforce has faltered. Both ba…
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RT @EliseSchmelzer: Four new wildfires along the Front Range since Monday. At least 8,300 acres burning. One person dead. Five homes des….
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RT @lucasbradywoods: Lobbyists in Colorado legislature paid nearly $70 million in last year - a record high @NColtrain @denverpost #cop….
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Money spent on lobbying the Colorado legislature again hit a record high this year — but the tally only begins to hint at the ways the deluge steers policy through the statehouse.
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RT @CoFOIC: It didn’t take long for several government entities in Colorado to adopt the new, much-higher, maximum CORA fee rate that went….
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It didn’t take long for several government entities in Colorado to adopt the new, much-higher, maximum CORA fee rate that went into effect on Monday, July 1.
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RT @SethKlamann: With the last campaign finance report of the primary season in, we now know who funded the Kent Thiry-backed group that du….
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RT @SethKlamann: A group backed by Kent Thiry and efforts to overhaul Colorado's election system dropped more than $1 million in last-minut….
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Let Colorado Vote Action has ties to Denver millionaire Kent Thiry and his effort to introduce ranked-choice voting in Colorado
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RT @Noelle_Phillips: An anonymous letter, a $10 land deal and powerful metro districts.
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The saga of the $10 land deal at Beebe Draw Farms is complex, and the community has a history of disputes between residents and elected boards that date back more than 13 years.
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RT @sam_tabachnik: The Denver Art Museum has earned a reputation among tribes and countries for being difficult to deal with when it comes….
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Museum officials say they follow guidelines and recommendations, and are open to working with tribes and nations
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RT @JonMurray: New Colorado tax credit could lift 50,000 children out of poverty, is latest to tap TABOR surplus vi….
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Boasting that child poverty in Colorado would soon be cut nearly in half, Gov. Jared Polis on Friday signed a large new tax credit for low-income families into law. Here’s how several new cre…
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RT @Noelle_Phillips: The Denver Post's national spelling bee contestant is going to the finals, y'all!.
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This year, the Denver Post-sponsored contestant is among eight of the best spellers in the country following Wednesday’s quarterfinals and semifinals.
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RT @ehernandez: Colorado will refund two years of tuition at a university, community college or trade school for qualifying students whose….
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Supporters of the legislation — HB24-1340, passed on the final day of the session — tout it as an important step to improve access to postsecondary education in Colorado.
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RT @JonMurray: Good look at what was announced yesterday: New property tax relief proposal gives Colorado lawmakers hope for peace in ballo….
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Property tax rates could reach long-term stability if the late proposal introduced in the Colorado legislature Monday beats the clock, but it did not appear likely to stop ballot initiatives backed…
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