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The new measure will let lawmakers have more private conversations. It will do that by narrowing the definition of public business, let lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically without the communications constituting a public meeting, and meet one on one with fewer restrictions.

The governments of Boulder County and the town of Superior say increasing operations at the airport near Broomfield, especially training flights for student pilots, are causing 鈥渆xcessive noise,鈥� dropping leaded fuel over their residents鈥� homes and threatening their 鈥渉ealth, safety and welfare.鈥�

The measure would let state lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically with each other by email or text message without the communications constituting a public meeting.

Senate Bill 157 would let state lawmakers discuss bills and other public business electronically by email or text message without that dialogue constituting a public meeting.

Rapid growth at several airports, including Rocky Mountain Metropolitan in northern Colorado, has sparked lawsuits, thousands of noise complaints and health concerns about airborne lead pollution in neighboring communities.

One idea under review aims to reduce noise by altering the recommended daytime flight pattern, with more planes turning toward open space in Boulder County during takeoff instead of neighborhoods in Superior.

The State Controller鈥檚 Office said a software configuration issue was hiding spending data in the checkbook across all state agencies.

State Sen. Dylan Roberts, D-Frisco, said the goal of his legislation is to give the public faith in the funeral industry following several cases of misconduct that have left many families angry and reeling.

KUNC 暗黑爆料 has discovered more than 16,000 state checkbook entries in the last year missing the names of the people or businesses who received the taxpayer money listed there. Instead, there are generic codes in the spaces where those vendors' names are supposed to be.

KUNC 暗黑爆料 obtained copies of the legal bills through an open records request to the Office of Legislative Legal Services.