Calling him a "true champion for Colorado," Senate President Leroy Garcia has endorsed former Gov. John Hickenlooper in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Cory Gardner.
"When members of this body compared union bosses I knew growing up and am friends with now, to members of organized crime, corrupt backroom dealers wearing suspenders and smoking cigars, I cringed."
Here are legislative committee hearings and other events of note for the week ahead at the Colorado state Capitol.
“There is no industry or community throughout the state that will not be affected by the negative consequences of the proposed State Option,” according to a joint statement released Monday.
The first-time candidate from Greenwood Village is a Navy veteran who is running because he says he wants to bring a dose of fiscal conservatism to the legislature.
House Bill 1031, sponsored by Reps. Adrienne Benavidez, D-Denver, and Kyle Mullica, D-Northglenn, would honor the Italian-born Catholic nun who operated the Queen of Heaven orphanage in Denver and a summer camp for girls on Lookout Mountain.
House Bill 1153 was approved on a preliminary vote and will head to a final vote in the House on Tuesday. The bill is expected to pass on a party-line vote, given the votes on dozens of amendments.
As voters receive their mail-in ballots, Democratic candidates get their boots on the ground in Colorado. Read our Super Tuesday guide for who's coming in strong and which names on the ballot are just "zombies."
Several lawmakers have daughters who show up this time of year with those delectable little morsels, and the cookie wars are fierce.
After years of bouncing bills back and forth with Rep. Terri Carver, Sen. Bob Gardner said SB 96 "is an acceptable compromise" and that he was "glad we got there and we won't have to fight about it again next year."
House Bill 1228 aims to improve the rape kit processing and tracking system and ensure "victims of heinous crimes have the resources they need to track the status of their investigation confidentially and efficiently.”
The Democrat who ran against Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton in 2016 is endorsing the former seafood executive who hopes to take on Tipton this year.
Senate Bill 164 specifies that each shelter shall offer timely veterinary care to dogs and cats, as well as prohibits lodging the animals in a fashion that “fosters obsessive-compulsive or self-mutilating behavior.”
In a hearing that went into the early morning hours, the package covered parental rights, banning transgender athletes from girl's sports, charging medical professionals who assist transgender youth and allowing businesses to deny service for religious reasons.
Current state law sets a two-year window for homeowners to report a defect to a builder or developer once they've found it; most states have ten years and only four have shorter time frames.
Denver City Councilwoman Kendra Black, who recently helped pass an ordinance to charge 10 cents per single-use plastic or paper bag, is eyeing other initiatives promoted by sustainability activists.
House Bill 1296 would eliminate the civil statute of limitations for victims who were sexually abused as children.
The complaint, lodged by the Republican-based Public Trust Institute, alleges Salazar violated Amendment 41's provision that bans lawmakers from lobbying in Colorado for two years after leaving office. Salazar represented House District 31 from 2013 through the end of 2018.
Lawmakers worked late into the evening Wednesday to craft a delicately-worded compromise on a bill that could provide a lifeline for the state's last two remaining private prisons.
Joey Bunch: "I don’t like to mix politics and religion, so I’ll leave Jude the Apostle out of this. The Colorado General Assembly, nonetheless, could use a patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes, maybe Saint Postponed Indefinitely."
The state Senate takes up two bills that could determine the future over reopening a renovated solitary confinement state prison in Fremont County and a private prison in Burlington.
The measure, which would ban discrimination of traits based on race and received a shout-out at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, advanced in the Colorado legislature Wednesday as the House passed it on a 42-21 vote.
Proponents of two ill-fated pieces of legislation on restricting abortion rights hope voters are outraged enough to sign petitions to get a measure on the November ballot.
The Polis administration and state Democratic leaders have a goal to get Colorado out of the private prison business. But how that happens will test the Department of Corrections and the people running the facilities.
“Health information technology and innovative digital strategies are key to lowering health care costs. The work done by the Office of eHealth Innovation is critical in our efforts to make health care more affordable for Coloradans.”
Battle lines over vaccinations were officially drawn Tuesday, when legislation to standardize exemptions and promote compliance was officially filed in the state Senate.
Bill to bar drivers from holding cellphones while driving wins unanimous support in Senate committee
A coalition, which includes bicyclists, motorcycle riders, pedestrians and the disabled, joined together one more time to encourage the Senate Transportation and Energy Committee to pass Senate Bill 65, which would allow drivers to use cellphones only if they can do so with hands-free accessories.
"We wanted Sergeant Major Sartor's family to know that we knew of his heroism and we vowed to remember and support his family."
On Monday, the state House Committee on Rural Affairs and Agriculture unanimously approved a bill to increase funding to poorer areas of the state for a wildfire mitigation grant program.
The bill would steer the extra income from fines back into programs in communities most affected by pollution to mitigate the damage.
Democrats are continuing their vigorous march toward clean energy with a bill that cleared the House Energy and Environment Committee Monday, but it’s one that raises big concerns for the state’s largest investor-owned utility, Xcel Energy.
The question is a big issue outside Colorado's resort towns and mountain enclaves, where letting out a space can lead to a fuss in the neighborhood.
House Bill 1048, called the Crown Act, prohibits discrimination against hairstyles historically associated with race, such as dreadlocks.
In a little less than a month, Colorado will make the sometimes painful switch to Daylight Saving Time, turning clocks forward an hour, a change that will last until Nov. 1, just a few days before Election Day.
To vaccinate or not is a contentious issue in Colorado, with one side claiming that vaccine mandates amount to harassment and the other arguing that they are a matter of public safety.
Here are legislative committee hearings and other events of note for the week ahead at the Colorado state Capitol.
She is the president of Centennial-based Kogovsek & Associates, which specializes in water management, development and conservation, as well as the use and protection of public lands, American Indian issues and access to federal support, including lobbying.
With tempers flared against the Democratic majority in the statehouse and Gov. Jared Polis, a 55-member Republican vacancy committee on Saturday chose Columbine Valley Mayor Richard Champion to fill the House District 38 seat.
The Capitol Choir is no doubt the best caucus under the gold dome, and Friday's harmony, as it was, reminded a cynical watcher of politics that there's still some good bipartisan fellowship around.
Nowhere has technology been more of a problem in recent times than with the Internet and advancements in how people produce, distribute and view child pornography.
Marianne Goodland reports on the daily doings in and around the Capitol.
Thursday’s review of House Bill 1131 brought up a topic that makes some people a little — or a lot —uncomfortable: women’s menstrual cycles.
On Thursday, a House committee signed off on changes to the Safe2Tell program at a time when the state’s school safety tip line is receiving record numbers of reports.
“We still have work to do to simplify Colorado’s complex sales and use tax system, but this is a big step toward making Colorado a friendlier place to do business.”
Gov. Jared Polis talked about electric cars, Front Range rail and public option insurance in a wide-ranging chat with a Politico reporter Friday in Washington during the news organization’s 10th annual State Solutions Conference in Washington, D.C.
The Human Rights Campaign's sixth annual State Equality Index was released last week.
The Senate Education Committee took up two bills aimed at improving mental health for students Thursday, one that would give adults on campus more tools to spot and address problems, and the other would make a mental health day a valid reason to miss school. Both passed unanimously.
A bill to give college athletes a bigger financial stake in their name or likeness scored in its first committee hearing Thursday afternoon.
Gonzalez: “Because she actually listens to the people directly impacted by the problems we face as Americans, Elizabeth Warren crafts powerful solutions that meet the scale of the challenges we face to move our country forward."
A Republican vacancy committee will convene in Littleton on Saturday to appoint a new representative for House District 38.