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Hospital fee debate moves on to second act in Senate
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The curtain officially rose Thursday in the House on the long drama centered around the Democratic-led effort to reclassify the state’s $700 million hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund. By Friday at roughly 11:00 a.m., the first act had concluded. Two bills concerning the reclassification passed with Republican support and headed to the Senate,…
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Hickenlooper on replacing the state’s caucus system, being impressed with Hillary, hatching a cybersecurity hub, still hoping for hospital fee fix
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In this week’s window-side chat with reporters — the latest in the series the governor is doing in the last month of the legislative session — John Hickenlooper answered questions about the state’s caucus system, which has been making headlines around the country as the heated presidential primary contests continue. He also talked about Democratic…
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Crowder wants to be really clear about how he sees the hospital provider fee, you follow?
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“The thing I’m trying to impress on people is we got to come out and have to have an adult conversation in this state about what direction we want to go,” said state Sen. Larry Crowder, standing on the steps of the Capitol last week. Crowder was talking about his support for House Bill 1420,…
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Senate debates state budget: Opens with battle over Clean Power Plan
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Neville, Woods team up to target contraception, immunization, bike path spending (5:30 p.m.) Sens. Tim Neville, R-Littleton, and Laura Woods, R-Arvada, are staunch social conservatives. Neville is running in a crowded Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Woods holds one of the key swing seats that will determine which party controls the Senate in the…
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Brophy and Hillman: HB 1337 vital to eastern Colorado
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Editor: Local ground water management districts protect the underground water rights of farmers and other residents of rural Colorado. House Bill 1337, now under consideration at the state Capitol, will ensure that water speculators cannot play deceptive games in court in order to exhaust the limited legal budgets of these districts. HB 1337 will clarify…
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Hickenlooper nominates health care exec Donna Lynne as Colorado’s new lieutenant governor
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Gov. John Hickenlooper nominated Kaiser Foundation Health Plan executive Donna Lynne Wednesday to replace Joe Garcia as Colorado’s lieutenant governor and to fill the newly created position of “chief operating officer” for the state. “Donna Lynne is uniquely qualified to take on this role,” said Hickenlooper. “Her background in successfully running large complex organizations —…
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He said, she said, they said: At legislative session halfway mark, gridlock reigns on big issues
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The sound and fury about gridlock that has marked news-release language and news-conference presentations over the last two weeks may come to nothing at the Capitol — which isn’t to say it won’t make for effective election-campaign fodder this fall. Colorado lawmakers now well into the second half of this year’s legislative session are expressing…
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LGBT Coloradans make their case to lawmakers, up close and personal
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One Colorado wants state lawmakers to know that their constituents include LGBT people and that members of the LGBT community vote. Monday was One Colorado lobby day at the Capitol. Almost 300 volunteers from the organization, representing 33 Senate districts and 57 House districts, walked the halls, watched floor debate and met with lawmakers on…
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Hullinghorst not waiting on Cadman to tackle hot-button hospital fee plan
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Colorado Speaker of the House Dickey Lee Hullinghorst will not delay efforts to move the state’s hospital provider fee into an enterprise fund. She wants to get started now while working to get the Republican-controlled state Senate on board. Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel, said during a news conference Tuesday that the recent opinion from Republican Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, coupled…