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Some Colorado lawmakers want to make it easier for residents to see how the state is spending their tax money, but the state would still be able to hide some data from its online checkbook. And the two candidates for Dolores mayor spoke at a candidate forum on Monday night.

The Utah Legislature passed a lengthy election security bill last week.

Democrats at the Colorado statehouse are blocking new Republican efforts to ban abortions. The City of Cortez and Montezuma County have announced their choice for Cortez Municipal Airport’s new airline. And one of the candidates for Cortez City Council has dropped out of the race.

Colorado Democrats advanced a bill last week that would make it a crime to openly carry a gun near a polling center or ballot drop box. And a new study found lesbian, bi-, pan- and a- sexual women in Utah are four times less likely to graduate high school than heterosexual women.

It’s the beginning of election season once again, at least in Cortez. The city’s 2022 election is this spring, on April 5. Candidates for city council are just lining up to run. As the process kicks off, KSJD’s Lucas Brady Woods sat down with Cortez City Clerk Linda Smith at City Hall to get an idea of what this year’s municipal election looks like.

There were at least 40 new cases of COVID-19 identified in the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District over the weekend; A lawsuit filed last week in Colorado aims to remove a statewide ballot question from the upcoming November election.

Colorado voters will weigh in on three statewide ballot questions this November that aim to raise marijuana prices, lower property taxes and put new restrictions on government spending; The state of Colorado will start paying grade school students who agree to get tested weekly for COVID-19.

Colorado secretary of state Jena Griswold has ordered Mesa County to stop using some of its voting equipment, after passwords to the machines were allegedly leaked online; Navajo Nation Leadership met with Utah Governor Spencer Cox last week in Salt Lake City.

Democrats in Colorado and New Mexico are pushing ahead with legislation to pledge their 14 collective electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote — no matter who wins each state.

San Juan County Clerk’s office has confirmed Ann Leppanen as the winner of Bluff’s mayoral election. Two weeks of waiting for a final canvass revealed a…