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This week on Regional Roundup: protests in Denver and Salt Lake City, hazard mitigation planning in the West, a social media regulation bill in Colorado, and land conservation efforts in Colorado and Wyoming.

The veto override vote now heads to the House. The last veto overrides in Colorado were in 2011 and 2007 under, and both dealt with budget spending requests.

Backers want platforms to have to take action when users engage in illegal activity, but Gov. Jared Polis has serious concerns about the policy.

Sponsors of a bipartisan bill that would strengthen age restrictions for accessing sexual content online are pulling the measure over concerns from Polis and an upcoming SCOTUS decision on the issue.

The latest NPR-IBM Watson Health poll found that 29% of people said they were often angry when checking the news. Another 42% said the news sometimes made them angry.

What had been called a “potential weapon-related issue” by Cortez school officials over the weekend has been identified as a juvenile posing in photos…