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Noonan: Surprise! State House and Senate leadership agreed with each other in 2016
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Four of the six legislative leaders are retiring: Democratic House Speaker Dickie Lee Hullinghorst, Senate President Bill Cadman, Senate Majority Leader Mark Scheffel and House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso. House Majority Leader Crisanta Duran and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, both from Denver, will return. With four members of leadership waving goodbye, perhaps it’s not…
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Noonan: Republican senators lay off contentious bills to hold the chamber
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Nine state senators are up for re-election and nine Senate seats are up for grabs in November. Seven of those seats have fewer than 9,000 votes separating the parties in registration numbers, while two seats have under 800. The Senate is 18-17 to the Republicans, all of which explains why the Senate was a more…
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Cadman: Session much more successful than advertised
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It’s that time of year again – the legislative interim – when our media friends and editorial writers draw sweeping but invariably distorted conclusions about “what the session really meant.” These are the same people who spent months largely ignoring the bipartisan successes while hyping partisan flaps, proclaiming that rancorous “partisanship” blocked passage of all…
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Hancock honored as ‘heart and soul’ of Denver at Mizel Institute dinner (PHOTOS)
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More than 2,000 civic, philanthropic and political leaders filled a converted Air Force hanger on Wednesday night to honor Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, the 2016 recipient of the Mizel Institute’s annual Community Enrichment Award. The institute’s annual dinner, dubbed “spring political prom” by one wag on Twitter, returned to the Wings Over the Rockies…
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Fields: Say ‘no’ to a special session for special interests
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Not even 48 hours after the legislative session ended, the governor floated the idea of convening a special session to address the hotly debated hospital provider fee. This drum beat has continued in the press, with pressure from countless special interest groups who didn’t get their way during the normal 120-day session. And this all…
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Hickenlooper: Special session would only come as a result of a ‘different type of compromise’
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?The talk began almost the minute the legislative session ended May 11 and it has grown ever since. Gov. John Hickenlooper, frustrated by the fact that lawmakers failed to pass a proposal to reclassify the state’s hospital provider fee and add hundreds of millions of dollars to the general fund, was going to call them…
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Frustrated state lawmakers look to voters to break Capitol gridlock
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Colorado lawmakers this week expressed disappointment in what they saw as a stunted legislative session where divided chambers blocked major proposals and they looked outside the building toward the ballot box as the best way to move their agendas forward in the future. Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, who is term-limited and…
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In 2016, big splash bills went nowhere, quiet compromise ruled the day
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It came to seem like a routine signal this legislative session: If lawmakers held a press conference touting the introduction of an important bill, one they placed at the top of their priority list, that bill would very likely never make it to the governor’s desk. The result was a legislative session marked by a…
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Maybe next year: Senate Republicans shoot down long-time-coming hospital fee bill
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Democratic legislators and Gov. John Hickenlooper placed reclassifying the state’s hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund at the top of their priorities list when the 2016 legislative session opened in January. Yet, despite a major push launched inside and outside the Capitol, the plan failed. In a move that surprised no one who followed…
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Legislative leaders sound skeptical on provider fee switch, trans bond funding
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The budget is signed, but that doesn’t mean fighting over revenue has ended in the Legislature. During a budget singing in Gov. John Hickenlooper’s office Tuesday, Senate Pres. Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, and Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, indicated that the potential of a hospital provider fee reclassification and a transportation bond…
