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RTD promised the line in 2004 as part of the voter-approved FasTracks program, but rising costs have delayed the project by decades.

Lawmakers approved $4 million for minority-owned small businesses as part of last month's state stimulus package that exceeded $300 million. But soon after the program passed, a white man who owns a Colorado Springs barbershop sued Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado Minority Business Office in federal court, alleging it is unconstitutional to exclude some business owners from the program because of race.

Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican who represents the Colorado Springs area, wrote a letter to President-elect Joe Biden asking him to reverse the decision. Lamborn said the decision amounted to arbitrarily shuffling SPACECOM around like a “political trophy.”

Lawmakers will hold three-day session before recessing until February.

Colorado will not be making any changes to its vaccine program until it can get concrete details on supply quantities and timelines for receiving supply, according to a statement from Gov. Jared Polis.

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. 

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.

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

Groups push regulators for strict greenhouse gas limits ahead of key 2021 rulemakings.