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General Assembly convenes for three days starting Wednesday.

Lawmakers return to the Capitol on Wednesday to officially start the new session, but they will delay most of their work until at least mid-February, when they hope COVID rates will be lower and more people will have been vaccinated. They will take up issues including standardized testing, learning loss, funding for K-12 and higher education, and school discipline. 

Through 2019, the total Longmont portion of the RTD tax for FasTracks is $60,299,232, Jim Golden, Longmont’s chief financial officer, said in an email. To date, the only FasTracks spending slated for Longmont is $17 million for the First and Main transit station.

The state labor department completed the installation of new software for the unemployment system on Sunday, including a fraud detection program that flagged thousands of benefits requests as suspicious.

A daily crime report in Longmont.

“We remain hopeful that someone in the community can identify the individual responsible,” police stated in a Facebook post.

The move is the latest in a series that have kept jury trials off the docket.

There are fewer RVs in the most well-known areas of the city where the vehicles were most commonly parked, according to a report to council.

Today marks the second installment of an eight-part series focused on what the St. Vrain Valley board does and getting to know its members. 

Gov. Jared Polis and legislative leaders are working toward a long-sought fix to the state’s transportation funding system.