campus free speech
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Colorado campus free speech bill signed into law (with high marks for bipartisan support)
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday signed a state campus free speech bill passed with wide bipartisan support in both chambers of the Legislature this year. “Once we limit free speech to a zone, we indicate to our students that free speech does not exist anywhere beyond that zone,” state Sen. Tim Neville, a Littleton…
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Colorado campus free speech bill scores full House support
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Colorado’s campus free speech bill on Tuesday won a unanimous 64-0 vote on the state House floor. It was another triumph of bipartisan support for a bill that was early linked in the minds of lawmakers to contentious conservative cable-news narratives but that broke increasingly free with each committee and floor debate to be embraced…
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#Coleg week 10: Concerning the Sand Creek Massacre, a sanctuary state, pot for PTSD, corporal punishment, campus free speech
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This week we take up where the thud-like introduction of the transportation-funding House Bill 1242 left off. Conservatives remain unimpressed. Sponsors House Speaker Crisanta Duran and Senate President Kevin Gratham will work to make their trial balloon seem less like the Hindenburg, to borrow a phrase from Littleton Republican Sen. Tim Neville. Supporters of the…
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Colorado campus free speech bill went off to House with broad bipartisan support
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State Sen. Tim Neville, a Littleton Republican, was determined to send his hot-button campus free speech bill to the lower chamber with strong support from Democrats as well as Republicans – and he succeeded. Senate Bill 62 is a response to the war around expression being waged largely by conservative media outlets who think speech…
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Neville campus free speech bill wins surprise unanimous committee support
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The debate over student free speech, campus safe zones and political correctness moved into the Colorado Capitol on Thursday and took a surprise turn when three Democrats joined with four Republicans on the Senate education committee to unanimously advance a campus free speech bill sponsored by arch conservative-libertarian Sen. Tim Neville. “Elected officials have a…