Headlines Tuesday November 4, 2025
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11_4_2025_andraaheadline Headlines Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025
Election Day – Overview
Today is election day, and in Colorado, it’s shaping up to be the highest off-year voter turnout in years.
Ballots are already being counted in Boulder County. It’s too late now to vote by mail, but ballots that were mailed to voters can still be returned in person to official drop boxes or polling places. The deadline for that is seven o’clock tonight.
More than 700,000 ballots have already been cast, according to early voting figures cited by Colorado Newsline. That’s more than have been cast at this stage of the process in the past two off-year cycles. Colorado could see its biggest voter turnout since 2019.
Eligible voters are even able to register today, and still cast ballots. That’s because Colorado has same-day voter registration. If you’re among those who want to vote but still need to register, you can do so at an in-person polling place before polls close tonight at seven.
Information about where to find a ballot drop box and in-person services can be found at GoVoteColorado.com, and at local county clerk websites.
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Election Day – Ballot Issues
There are numerous local issues on the ballot in cities and towns across Colorado. Lawmakers have also referred two state-wide issues to the ballot, propositions LL and MM. If approved, they would raise money for Colorado’s universal school meals program.
If Proposition LL passes, the state will be allowed to keep and spend more than $12 million on the Healthy School Meals for All Program. This $12 million is the amount above the projected revenue from the 2022 voter approved tax deduction limits. Proposition LL will not raise taxes; the tax revenue was collected from people who made $300,000 or more a year. If LL fails, the $12 million dollars will be returned to these households.
Proposition MM would allow the state to increase taxes. If passed, it would raise taxes on people and couples earning more than $300,000. This would raise some $95 million to fully fund the Healthy School Meals for All program and bolster the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP
In Boulder, eleven candidates are vying for four open seats on the city council. There are two ballot issues: Ordinance 8710 and 8711. The first would extend an existing .3 percent culture, resilience, and safety sales and use tax. The second would allow the increase of debt to build and maintain capital improvements. That’s all according to the City of Boulder website.
Voters in Denver will decide eight ballot measures. Five of them make up a $950 million dollar bonds package, Mayor Mike Johnston’s Vibrant Denver infrastructure bonds. Together they would fund more than two hundred projects, according to Colorado Newsline.
Another Denver ballot measure would change how the city elects its two at-large City Council members.
Finally, Denver voters will decide whether to keep or overturn the city’s ban on flavored tobacco products. Referendum 310 is a challenge to the ban passed by the city council last year.
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Loan Forgiveness Lawsuit
Colorado is among more than twenty Democrat-led states challenging a new Trump administration policy aimed at blocking certain student loan cancellation programs.
The policy would primarily affect organizations that work with immigrants and transgender youth, according to published reports.
The Trump administration policy dictates Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon has final say in determining if a group’s work is out of bounds for loan forgiveness.
A lawsuit challenging the policy was filed in Massachusetts yesterday. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser told the Denver Post QUOTE, “public service loan repayment is a legal requirement and a promise to those entering into public service.” The suit says the Trump administration overstepped its boundaries when they added new eligibility rules known as the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser told the Denver Post, “public service loan repayment is a legal requirement and a promise to those entering into public service.”
According to the Post, the loan forgiveness program was started by congress in 2007 to steer more college graduates into lower paying government jobs. An estimated one million Americans have had their loans forgiven by the program.
SNAP Benefits Partially Reinstated
The Trump administration says it will resume funding SNAP, but on a limited basis.
Benefits for SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, ran out at the end of October, due to the ongoing government shutdown. The administration said it would not use a U.S. Department of Agriculture contingency fund to keep SNAP going. But two federal judges said the administration is required to.
The Trump administration said yesterday it would resume the funding, but only partially. The Associated Press says it isn’t clear how much beneficiaries will get, or when they’ll get it.
About one of every eight Americans are helped by SNAP, the country’s largest food program. Some 19,000 of them are in Boulder County.
