2018 general assembly
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NOONAN | Overloaded bill docket defeats good legislation and public oversight
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Lots of bills stack up at the end of each General Assembly, and usually the most important legislation remains stuck in the stacks. This year is no exception. In the last eight days of the session, almost 300 bills out of 700+ are somewhere in the sausage-making process. Seventeen of those bills were introduced on…
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Skill-based, not degree-based, jobs will power Colorado’s future, leaders say
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From social media to the way we shop and everything in between, technology undoubtedly permeates our daily lives. Some children get an iPhone before they’re old enough to get a job and toddlers understand how to locate and operate apps before they can recite the alphabet. Growing up a millennial, I was raised on Mavis…
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State Republicans OK Shane Sandridge election to replace ex-state Rep. Dan Nordberg
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The Colorado Republican Party made it official Tuesday: Shane Sandridge, a Colorado Springs investment consultant and former police officer, won a vacancy election to fill the term of former state Rep. Dan Nordberg, the Colorado Springs Republican who announced last month he was stepping down to take a job as regional administrator of the Small Business Administration…
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State Republicans to announce ruling Tuesday on contested HD 14 vacancy election
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Call him Schrödinger’s rep. Like the cat made famous by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s 1935 thought experiment in quantum mechanics, Colorado Springs Republican Shane Sandridge can be considered both alive and dead – in the political sense – until the Colorado GOP reveals how the party’s executive committee ruled last week on a complaint challenging the…
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Republican Doug Robinson rips Hickenlooper’s ‘myopic focus on spending’ in address
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Robinson unloaded some harsh criticism for the man he wants to replace, calling term-limited Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper’s final State of the State address the embodiment of what Robinson, a former investment banker, calls the Colorado state government’s problem with spending. “Gov. Hickenlooper’s address betrays the ‘spend-first’ mentality that has become…
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5 best kickoff quotes from Hick, Grantham and Duran
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Gov. John Hickenlooper Marijuana: “We were the first state to legalize recreational marijuana while creating a roadmap for other states. By the way – we’re not wild about Washington telling us what’s best for us. We expect the federal government will respect the will of Colorado voters.” Laurels: “[W]e can’t rest on our laurels. As…
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Gridlock isn’t an option for Colorado’s General Assembly
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Aside from the fact that we all have the privilege of conducting our legislative affairs under stunningly beautiful Capitol domes – one in D.C. and the other in Denver – there’s actually a world of difference between the “Colorado way” of doing things and the “Washington way.” We hope to prove that anew when the…
