It’s Election Day in Colorado. Here’s what you need to know.

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Tuesday, November. 05, 2024

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Good morning, Colorado, and Happy Election Day.

We’ve got a really busy and long day ahead, so I’ll be quick, but we wanted to make sure you know how to get the latest updates on election results, expert analysis and other breaking Election Day news. The Colorado Sun’s staffers around the state will be talking to voters, reporting from watch parties, and updating results in real time so that you are covered:

If you still need to vote, here’s your nonpartisan election guide.

Let’s get to it.

Lisa Balcomb and the long-lost, then-recovered, llama Clavio at about 10,000 feet in the San Juan Mountains near Ridgway on Oct. 27. (Courtesy of Lisa Balcomb)

If you need some lighter news on this Election Day, look no further than the story of Clavio the pack llama who, after a two-month escapade in the San Juan Mountains, has been reunited with Lisa Balcomb, who lost two llamas after an attack by a sheep dog. Michael Booth has more on the happy ending to this llama drama.

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Oil sits in containers at a facility on July 13, 2023, on public lands south of Duchesne, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next month on the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act in a case centered on the 88-mile Uinta Basin Railway. The $3 billion project, which intends to connect oil fields in northeastern Utah to the national rail network so far-flung refineries, was approved in 2021 after a two-year review under NEPA. But now the question is: Does NEPA require federal agencies to consider impacts beyond the exact location of the project? Jason Blevins reports.

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In the wake of soaring utility bills in the 2022-23 winter, when the average natural gas bill shot up 52% for residential Xcel Energy customers, the legislature started investigating rates. Lawmakers then passed a law requiring Xce to remove investor relations and executive salaries from the costs passed on to Colorado consumers and now, regulators are putting that law into action. Mark Jaffe has the details.

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Author Thomas L. Dybdahl, a former public defender, saw all too often that prosecutors and even judges would ignore the so-called “Brady rule,” which requires the prosecution to disclose evidence favorable to the defendant. In “When Innocence Is Not Enough,” a finalist for the 2024 Colorado Book Award in General Nonfiction, he dives deep into the 1963 Supreme Court ruling that created the Brady rule — and in this excerpt, recounts the botched crime behind it.

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