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With Esgar on board, House Dems pass bitter-pill measure to slash hospital funds, advance budget debate

Apr 25, 2017

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John Tomasic

Democratic leaders dodged a bullet Tuesday afternoon and passed with one vote to spare a crucial “orbital” budget bill that nevertheless threatens to blow a gaping hole in state hospital budgets and shutter healthcare facilities in already woefully underserved rural districts. Senate Bill 256 passed on 33-31 vote. Four Democrats joined the Republican caucus to…
Leslie Herod gets an earful from fellow lawmakers about best ways to resolve conflicts

Apr 6, 2017

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Ernest Luning

State Rep. Leslie Herod, a Denver Democrat, got plenty of advice when she recently asked several House members from both sides of the aisle to discuss their favorite ways to resolve conflicts at the Capitol. One legislator even cites reggae legend Bob Marley. Noting that lawmakers recently passed a bipartisan resolution to join Gov. John…
Democrats advance Colorado measure allowing leave time for children’s academics

Feb 6, 2017

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Peter Marcus

State lawmakers on Monday advanced a measure that would once again grant leave time to workers to take part in their children’s school academics. House Bill 1001, sponsored by Rep. Janet Buckner, D-Aurora, passed the Democratic-controlled House Eduction Committee on a party-line 7-5 vote. One Republican member of the committee, Rep. Clarice Navarro of Pueblo,…
Noonan: Final results show election angst on both sides turns into not much in Colorado

Dec 5, 2016

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Paula Noonan

In the grand total of many things political, Democrats did well in Colorado in 2016, going against the fly-over state trend. Even so, at the state level, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Statewide, unaffiliated voters broke toward Democrats at about 4.5 percent. With party registrations in November at almost even…
State legislative contests resolve into stalemate

Nov 9, 2016

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John Tomasic

Democrats add to House majority; Republicans retain Senate majority At the end of a long election season that delivered shocks at every stage, including a dramatic upset win for Donald Trump at the top of the Republican ticket, voters in Colorado shuffled some of the players at the state Capitol but didn’t change the game.…
? Ellen Roberts resigns, readies legislative seat shuffle in Southwest

Oct 17, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

State Sen. Ellen Roberts (R-Durango), who currently serves as the Senate president pro tempore, has announced she will resign her Senate District 6 seat at the end of this year, after a decade in the Colorado House and Senate. The announcement came as a surprise to many of her constituents and those in the state Capitol community. In a statement posted…
House District 59 race promises more fireworks, lavish spending

Feb 17, 2016

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David O. Williams

In 2014, the race for Colorado House District 59 in Southwest Colorado was one of the closest, nastiest and costliest in the state. Both of the major party candidates for HD59 who have filed candidacy in the 2016 election to date — incumbent Republican rancher J. Paul Brown and Democratic educator Barbara McLachlan — expect…

barbara mclachlan

With Esgar on board, House Dems pass bitter-pill measure to slash hospital funds, advance budget debate

Leslie Herod gets an earful from fellow lawmakers about best ways to resolve conflicts

Democrats advance Colorado measure allowing leave time for children’s academics

Noonan: Final results show election angst on both sides turns into not much in Colorado

State legislative contests resolve into stalemate

? Ellen Roberts resigns, readies legislative seat shuffle in Southwest

House District 59 race promises more fireworks, lavish spending