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McKean, Shadduck-McNally seeking HD 51 seat
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Growing up on a small farm in north Missouri, Hugh McKean had to figure out how to fix things because his family couldn’t afford to replace them. If McKean, a Republican, defeats Democrat Jody Shadduck-McNally in the Colorado House District 51 race this November, he says he plans to bring that same common-sense mentality to…
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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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Letter: DelGrosso gives Republican lawmakers too much credit
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As an avid reader of the Colorado Statesman, I would like to comment on House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso’s recent commentary about “missed opportunities.” Mr. DelGrosso gave much credit to the Republicans for “passing legislation to increase transparency of Colorado’s Department of Transportation, helping to ensure CDOT’s priorities are in line with those of Colorado taxpayers.”…
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DelGrosso: Theme of session is ‘missed opportunities’
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From the start of the session, House Republicans identified increasing funding for education and transportation and addressing Colorado’s affordable housing shortage as our top priorities. Unfortunately, our Democrat colleagues did not share our same priorities and instead focused on passing a partisan agenda that penalized, over-regulated, even publicly shamed Colorado’s job creators. Democrats rejected our…
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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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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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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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Snark! Curses! House tensions bubble up as sine die approaches
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It was Friday morning, the sun well on its way to midday, three weeks left to go in the legislative session, lots of bills left to debate on the morning schedule and likely well more than 70 smart phones in the chamber. So it is little surprise that, when debate grew hot, a rough epithet…
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McCann’s ‘ban the box’ bill advances, would strip questions on criminal histories from job applications
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A Democratic bill that would remove questions about criminal convictions from first-round job applications cleared a first hurdle in the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. Minority member Republicans, citing concerns of employers, voted against the bill as a bloc, signaling its doubtful prospects in the Republican-controlled Senate. House Bill 1388, the “ban the box” bill —…
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The Hot Sheet, April 1, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 56 | APRIL 1, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 SAVE THE DATE: The Colorado Statesman cordially invites you to an “End-of-Session Bash,” Thursday, May 12, 4:30 – 6:30 pm at The University Club, 1673 Sherman St., Denver. More information coming soon. By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright @_JaredWright_ “April 1. This is the day upon which we are…
