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CAPITOL M | What’s happening while you’re waiting for the 2019 session
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The Colorado state Capitol at sunset as seen from a drone. (iStock/Getty Images)(Photo by nick1803, iStock/Getty Images) With Colorado’s 2019 legislative session just weeks away – it starts on Friday, Jan. 4 – the state Capitol is starting to buzz with new lawmakers and the old hands coming back to grab committee assignments, laptops and other such…
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CAPITOL M | The 2019 General Assembly, by the numbers
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There’s a lot to say about how last week’s election will reshape what goes on at the state Capitol, and sometimes it’s best to say it in numbers: Blast from the past, with a post-mortem on the election: Rep.-elect Lisa Cutter of Littleton is the first Democrat in state history to hold the House…
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CAPITOL M | Dirty tricks in the last days of the election season
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With just over a week to go before Election Day, the dirty-tricks side of campaigning has grown to a dull (and maybe not so dull) roar. We’ve already seen plenty of deceptive mailers (Protect Colorado, looking at you and your Amendment 74 committee) along with TV advertising that just flat-out lies about candidates from both…
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CAPITOL M | Celebrating (or hoping to survive) the last few weeks of the election season
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How NOT to make friends and influence people, Colorado campaign version. Friday, Pro15, the advocacy organization that bills itself as the voice of northeastern Colorado, held one of the last debates on the calendar for the two major party candidates for governor, in Greeley, in the heart of Colorado farm country. One thing you need…
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CAPITOL M | Mailers that make you go "huh?"
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We’re encountering Fractured Fairy Tales on the campaign trail lately, including some mailers that have us scratching our heads. We’ll start with the Western Slope and the race in Senate District 5 between Republican Olen Lund of Paonia and incumbent Democratic Sen. Kerry Donovan of Vail. The Colorado Economic Leadership Fund recently sent out a…
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CAPITOL M | A young farmer gets woodshedded by older ones; a sip of water humor
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Whoa Nellie! Somebody probably got a little more than he bargained for at the Sept. 27 meeting of the General Assembly’s interim water resources review committee. Interim water meetings are pretty staid affairs. The committee hears about issues and problems in water and comes up with legislation for the next session. But the Sept. 27…
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CAPITOL M | Observations from rural Colorado (and don’t drive too close to an onion truck)
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Live from rural Colorado! In next week’s print edition (and online Oct. 2), Colorado Politics will take a good look at how rural Coloradans view the upcoming election and the issues that are important to them. (Note to the statewide candidates: There will be surprises. The issues they’re raising aren’t necessarily at the top of…
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Capitol M: Sine Die (#ohthankgoodnessitsover) edition
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A lighter side, usually, of what goes on at #coleg, also known as the Colorado General Assembly, in the last three days of the 2018 session. Talk about jumping the gun…Too soon? House Bill 1436, the red flag bill that generated a ton of controversy in the last 10 days of the 2018 session, came to…
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Capitol M, Week ending April 20, with 19 days until Sine Die edition
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A look at the behind-the-scenes stuff that Capitol M finds interesting, amusing or wants you to know about. Best wishes for a speedy recovery…to Colorado Press Association lobbyist Greg Romberg, who suffered a brain injury in a skiing accident on March 31. According to CPA President Jerry Raehal, Romberg is alert, able to handle day-to-day…
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Capitol M: Week ending April 6, Budget Edition
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Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd, or, what goes on at the Capitol when lawmakers are not sitting at Coors Field, or as it was briefly known as on Friday, Citizens Bank Park. The next time Rep. Leslie Herod offers you donuts around April Fool’s Day…Capitol M advises…
