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PHOTOS: Colorado Politics hosts party to celebrate launch of legislative session

Jan 30, 2018

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Ernest Luning

More than 150 politicos of all stripes packed the historic Carriage House at the Governor’s Residence at Boettcher Mansion in Denver Wednesday night for a session-opening shindig thrown by Colorado Politics. Republicans rubbed shoulders with Democrats, toasting the young political news website and the nearly 120-year-old publication it incorporated last year. Vince Bzdek, editor of…
Online sales taxes pose question of privacy versus revenue in Colorado

Apr 4, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

State Sen. Chris Holbert says Coloradans are about to feel some pain, and potentially some shame, when a 2010 law takes effect in July allowing the state to collect personal data about online purchases. His Senate Bill 238 would waive a Colorado requirement that online retailers who don’t collect sales taxes to send the name, shipping…
Stephens: Colorado should rethink its tattletale tax reporting law

Feb 22, 2017

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Amy Stephens

There is a lot of talk in the state Legislature these days about taxes – from tax hikes on marijuana and new taxes for improved transportation to reduced taxes on business personal property and even eliminating taxes on some personal hygiene products. However, lawmakers may want to add one more tax-related issue to this robust debate…
Q&A w/Amy Stephens: Still busy after all these years

Feb 16, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Republican Amy Stephens represented Colorado Springs District 20 and then District 19 in the state House from 2006 through 2014, serving as House majority leader during the last two years of GOP control in the lower chamber, 2010 through 2012. Stephens ran for the Republican nomination in the 2014 U.S. Senate race against Mark Udall but withdrew…
Primavera will co-chair Women’s Legislative Caucus

Jan 13, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Former state Rep. Dianne Primavera, D-Broomfield, has replaced former state Sen. Suzanne Williams, D-Aurora, as co-chair of the Colorado Women’s Legislative Caucus. Williams stepped down from the position she held for several years along with former state Rep. Amy Stephens, R-Monument, now a principal with Dentons, who continues in her role as a co-chair. The…
El Paso County’s Jeff Hays to launch bid for state Republican chairman

Jan 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

El Paso County Republican Party Chairman Jeff Hays likes to talk football and politics, but chances are that even the most detailed political discussion will soon start sounding like football. “Everything in my life is a football analogy,” he said with a chuckle in a recent interview with The Colorado Statesman, and he wasn’t kidding.…
Aurora OKs lobbying contract

Dec 9, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

The City of Aurora has given its final approval to a $63,000 contract with Dentons for its lobbying services in the upcoming Colorado General Assembly. City Council voted 8-2, with Council members Barbara Clelland and Charlie Richardson opposed, to approve the contract on Monday, Dec. 5. The contract had been delayed for a few weeks…
Aurora delays lobbying contract with Dentons

Nov 29, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

A contract between the City of Aurora and Dentons for lobbying services during the upcoming Colorado General Assembly has been delayed for a few weeks by City Council over conflict of interest wording in the contract. Councilwoman Angela Lawson, a lobbyist program manager for the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, noted during the City Council’s Nov.…
The Hot Sheet, March 25, 2016

Mar 25, 2016

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Jared Wright

VOL. 01 NO. 51 | MARCH 25, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ DENVER — Happy Good Friday, and a very Happy Birthday to my wife, who puts up with the early morning or late night writing of The Hot Sheet on a daily basis. “I have…
The Hot Sheet, March 16, 2016

Mar 16, 2016

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Jared Wright

VOL. 01 NO. 44 | MARCH 16, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ DENVER — Super Tuesday Round 3 is complete. Marco Rubio‘s biggest mistake: Rich Beeson, “The days of having to have 50 field staffers and 25 offices are done. We can have a…