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Senate debates state budget: Opens with battle over Clean Power Plan
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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The Hot Sheet, April 1, 2016
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…
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Battle to ‘defund’ Clean Power Plan launches House budget debate
The first skirmish in the war over the state’s budget Thursday centered on coal and clean air and featured the “defund” politics conservatives have embraced in the Obama era. Rep. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, a member of the Joint Budget Committee, proposed two amendments that would cut funding for the state’s Department of Public Health and…
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Guv plays down GOP effort to defund air quality division: ‘Lots of opportunity to find compromise’
At the Colorado Legislature, it is budget season, it is defunding season. Taking up where Republicans on the Joint Budget Committee left off last week, Republicans on the state House Appropriations Committee Tuesday morning voted against an amendment to the “long bill” that would have returned to the state budget $8.5 million used to fund…
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Bill to slow Clean Power Plan implementation advances in state Senate
State Senate Republicans advanced a bill Monday that would suspend all work underway in Colorado to implement the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan until after the U.S. Supreme Court lifts a stay put in place in February. Senate Bill 157, sponsored by state Sens. John Cooke, R-Greeley, and Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, would also extend legislative…
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The Hot Sheet, March 23, 2016
VOL. 01 NO. 49 | MARCH 23, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ DENVER — Good morning, and a happy Snowpocalypse Wednesday to those of you in the Denver metro area and happy snow day to the Colorado state House and Senate. “Whimps” says veteran state Capitol…
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Vitali: Colorado should move forward on its Clean Power plan
The guest commentary “Why is Colorado complying with a costly plan already halted by the Supreme Court?” by Terry Jarrett criticized Colorado’s decision to continue developing a state climate change implementation plan. This state plan is required by the federal Clean Power Plan, which was recently stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Climate change is…
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Jarrett: Why is Colorado complying with a costly plan already halted by the Supreme Court?
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of issuing a stay against President Obama’s massive “Clean Power Plan.” The Court determined that states should not be compelled to pay the exorbitant costs imposed by the plan until a federal court determines its legality. The ruling produced a huge sigh of relief from the…
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The Hot Sheet, February 15, 2016
By TCS Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Jared Wright @_JaredWright_ Monday, February 15, 2016 DENVER – Happy President’s Day 2016, a time to celebrate our nation’s leaders, both past and present, and an occasion to become inspired for the future. As President John F. Kennedy once said, “Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met — obligations to…
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The Hot Sheet, February 10, 2016
By TCS Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Jared Wright@_JaredWright_ Wednesday, February 10, 2016 DENVER – Good morning, happy Wednesday, and here’s to a good start to the rest of your week … Your post-N.H. presidential recap and analysis: As the polling from the last several days predicted, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders walked away from the Granite State last night with respective wins, Trump commanding 35.1%…