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Here is an amusing story from Colorado; state officials are working hard to help relocate longtime employees who didn’t pass background checks but got hired anyways, evidently by public agencies with low standards. The state agencies that originally hired them recently folded and the Department of Public Safety was set to absorb them. Evidently, that agency is pickier and requires employees to have clean backgrounds and pass a polygraph test, which as the Denver newspaper reporting the story says, wasn’t the threshold at the other state agencies where the workers were first hired. So far, Colorado officials are “scrambling” to...

“It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood,” declared veteran GOP Rep. Glenn Vaad, of Mead, today at the Capitol as House Republicans elected new leadership on the heels of wresting control of their chamber on election night. It will be the first time in six years that Republicans have led the House of Representatives. The House gavel, when the legislative session resumes in January, will be handed over to Republican Rep. Frank McNulty, of Highlands Ranch, by outgoing Democratic Speaker Terrence Carroll, of Denver. McNulty, who will preside over the chamber as its next speaker, was cheered by collegues who...