Colorado House Initially OKs Tight Budget

DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Democrat-led House has tentatively endorsed a budget for the next fiscal year after rejecting a host of Republican attempts to boost transportation funding.
A final vote on the $26.8 billion budget for the year beginning July 1 is expected Monday. That would send it to a conference committee to reconcile differences with the budget bill passed by the Republican-led Senate.
Republicans presented numerous amendments to transfer funds from various government dep