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COVER STORY | Kids’ mental health challenged in a culture of guns

Dec 3, 2021

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JOEY BUNCH, MARIANNE GOODLAND AND LUIGE DEL PUERTO Colorado Politics

Dec. 14 marks nine years since Jane Dougherty told her sister hello and goodbye, but for a disturbed young man’s access to guns in Newtown, Connecticut, a New England village that was decked out for a Christmas, that was emotionally obliterating. Her older sister, Mary Sherlach, a school psychologist, was in the principal’s office that…
LIVE BLOG: Polis’ first State of the State address

Jan 10, 2019

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Colorado Politics

Newly sworn-in Colorado Gov. Jared Polis delivered his first State of the State address at the Capitol on Thursday. Below you can review coverage from the Colorado Politics team, including Marianne Goodland, Ernest Luning, Conrad Swanson and Erin Prater. 12:02 p.m. Polis’ speech is over, and he’s now being escorted…
Here’s a look at the first education bills to hit the Colorado legislature

Jan 7, 2019

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Erica Meltzer CHALKBEAT COLORADO

The more than 100 bills filed on the first day of Colorado’s 2019 legislative session include proposals to address the teacher shortage, bolster mental health services in schools, reduce regulation on rural schools, and provide bonuses to teachers deemed highly effective. Among the first 10 bills filed in each chamber were two ideas struck down…
Democratic Colo. state Rep. Janet Buckner named speaker pro tempore

Dec 2, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

Speaker Pro Tempore Janet Buckner, D-Aurora.(Courtesy photo) Democratic Colorado state Rep. Janet Buckner of Aurora has been named speaker pro tempore for the next legislative session, which begins Jan. 4. Speaker of the House-designee Rep. KC Becker of Boulder made the announcement Sunday in a press release. Buckner is heading into her second full term…
Colorado lawmakers defer new misconduct policy to 2019

May 17, 2018

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Associated Press

DENVER – Colorado lawmakers passed 432 bills during their just-concluded 2018 session. But despite the tumult over a spate of sexual misconduct cases, they decided to let next year’s leaders adopt updates to a harassment policy that could provide stricter ground rules for deterring bad behavior, punishing it and letting voters know about it. Leaders…
Tipton: Honoring our nation’s fallen heroes

May 29, 2017

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Scott Tipton

As a member of Congress, I have the unique opportunity to visit the memorials dedicated to fallen service members that are just a short distance from the Capitol building. Across the Potomac River, Arlington National Cemetery serves as the final resting place for hundreds of thousands of men and women who served in the armed…
This week at the Capitol: transportation tax, school budget, coal-rolling and free express lanes

Apr 24, 2017

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Joey Bunch

Here are the legislative committee hearings of note for the week ahead in the Colorado Capitol. Committee schedules are subject to change. The daily schedule is available on the legislature’s website. MONDAY House Education Committee, 1:30 p.m., Room 112 Senate Bill 39 to create a income tax credit for tuition to private schools. House Bill 1347 to require a…
Highlight reel: Colorado’s wild and woolly 2016 election season

Dec 29, 2016

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Adam McCoy, special to Colorado Politics

Symbolic of the divisiveness of our politics, many Coloradans will look back at the 2016 election with violent contempt, reflecting on a political year that saw the rise of President-elect Donald Trump, while others will reminisce with sublime glee over a cycle where voters bucked the political establishment. In a year full of tectonic shifts…
Woman fatally stabbed near state Capitol

Dec 27, 2016

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Associated Press

A woman was fatally stabbed Sunday near the state Capitol building. Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson says the woman was waiting for a friend at about 2 a.m. Sunday when a man attacked her. She died at the scene, which is about three blocks east of the Capitol. Officers say the suspect then attacked the…