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Q&A with Rep. Alec Garnett | Speaker of the House reflects on his time in the legislature
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At 38, Speaker of the House Alec Garnett, D-Denver, is in his last of eight years in the Colorado House and among the youngest to serve in that position. Garnett is the third Democrat from the Capitol Hill House District to wield the speaker’s gavel. He follows former speakers Mark Ferrandino, the youngest to ever…
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Cole Wist, former House Assistant Minority Leader, leaves GOP
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Former state Rep. Cole Wist of Centennial, who spent two years as assistant House Minority Leader in the 2017-18 sessions, announced Tuesday via Twitter that he’s leaving the GOP and becoming an unaffiliated voter. Wist has not been shy about expressing his frustration with the Republican Party, which he accused of abandoning its conservative principles…
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INSIGHTS | A GOP family feud over a red-flag bill
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Editor’s note: Joey Bunch is away, so this week we revisit his Insights column of May 11, 2018. Close to midnight on one of the final days of the 2018 legislative session last May, Colorado House of Representatives Republicans met in a caucus to discuss removing one of their rising stars, Cole Wist, from his…
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In a legislative race where guns are key issue, police union endorses the Democrat
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The Colorado Fraternal Order of Police, the state’s largest police union, Wednesday announced it has endorsed Democrat Tom Sullivan for the state House District 37 seat in Centennial over the Republican incumbent, Cole Wist. Both candidates have made a name for themselves on gun issues, with Sullivan losing a son in the 2012 Aurora theater…
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Part of Colorado street renamed to honor Armenian battle
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Legislation that passed in April ceremoniously becomes official Saturday when lawmakers unveil a sign designating Arapahoe Road from Interstate 25 to Parker Road in Centennial the Sardarapat Armenian Memorial Highway. The designation commemorates the Battle of Sardarapat in 1918, a key, often overlooked battle of World War I that was a turning point in the…
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NRA’s Dana Loesch in Denver on what’s to blame for school shootings
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The National Rifle Association’s media-star spokeswoman Dana Loesch spoke Saturday night in Denver about failures in the system, local and national, that she believes led to the shooting at a Florida high school in February. “There were things that led up to this,” she told the crowd Saturday at the Western Conservative Summit, which wrapped…
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Boulder climate-change lawsuit more political than legal, say CACI panelists
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The climate-change lawsuit launched in state court against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy by the city of Boulder, along with San Miguel and Boulder counties, is the wrong complaint in the wrong forum, panelists said Thursday at a Colorado Association of Commerce & Industry (CACI) event. “Litigation tends to produce delayed results, and if the objective…
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Wash. Gov. Inslee in Colo. to back gun control, Dem candidates
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Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee spoke at the Colorado Capitol to back gun control efforts and to encourage support for Democratic candidates for governor. Inslee – chair of the Democratic Governor’s Association, and mentioned by some as a potential 2020 presidential candidate – was joined at Thursday’s event by state Democratic Party chief Morgan Carroll…
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2018 Colo. legislature: What’s next on the issues that drove the session?
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The biggest issues of the 120-day Colorado legislative session are far from done just because they’ve been voted on. Transportation is still a snowball rolling downhill toward November, and the dollars that will eventually be steered into roads, bridges and transit are hardly settled. Lawmakers created a $32 billion solution to the state’s public-pension plan,…
