colorado capitol watch
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And they’re off! More than 100 already vying for Colorado legislative seats
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ColoradoPolitics.com’s news team does its best to keep you up to date on the latest announced candidacies for a wide range of offices; for a helpful update and overview of all the candidates currently seeking a seat in the legislature, look no further than a report the other day by veteran Capitol journalist Todd…
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Getting to yes, just saying no: Lawmakers Everett, Hansen and Kennedy talk session votes
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By one measure, state Rep. Justin Everett, a House Republican serving his third term in the Colorado General Assembly, and state Reps. Chris Hansen and Chris Kennedy, a pair of Democrats in their first terms, stand as far apart as any lawmakers at the Capitol, based on the votes they cast in the just-completed 2017…
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ICYMI: a checklist of legislative highlights by Colorado Capitol Watch
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For your convenience, bill-tracker Colorado Capitol Watch offered a quick-take recap earlier this week of the top issues the legislature had to grapple with, and how it resolved them. Or didn’t, as the case may be. The review by veteran Capitol correspondent and sage Todd Engdahl covers all the basics — hospital provider fee, energy policy,…
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Pot is no longer about politics; it’s about cold, hard cash — make that, revenue
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While the annual “4/20” cannabis bacchanal gets underway this morning at Denver’s Civic Center Park — in search of some cause beyond satisfying the basic human need to party — a couple of observations from Colorado’s media gallery seem especially apt. First, Denverite’s Adrian Garcia notes today how a fissure has opened up in the marijuana world — pitting, for the…
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The Hot Sheet, April 1, 2016
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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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Noonan: Buildings can make us stupid, or not, depending
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Energy-tight buildings reduce our thinking capacity unless they’re properly ventilated, according to a Harvard University and Syracuse University double-blind study conducted recently. Who knew? After spending decades making our buildings more energy efficient, it turns out that the CO2 and volatile organic compounds trapped in these “tight” buildings can make us dumb. The Harvard School…
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Noonan: Neighborhood public schools stage a comeback in school elections
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Colorado’s Independence Institute and the local branch of Americans for Prosperity didn’t get anything for the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on school board elections in Jeffco and Dougco. The winners in Jeffco fought off the conservative PACs with their own hundreds of thousands of dollars, including PAC money from unions. But the Dougco…
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Noonan: PARCC test results a no-show before school board elections
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Heads up, teachers and citizens of Colorado! You may get the results of the state’s standardized CMAS/PARCC tests, the annual tests taken in winter and spring of last school year, as soon as early ski season of this school year. PARCC, the standardized testing consortium to which Colorado belongs, didn’t even set its “cut scores”…
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Noonan: Womb-to-tomb surveillance by Dept. of Ed?
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Surveillance is the business model of the Internet, according to computer security analyst Bruce Schneier in a recent New York Times article on European data privacy. Surveillance is also, apparently, the business model of our own Colorado Department of Education. CDE prefers to call its work “longitudinal analysis.” It started when the state decided to…
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Noonan: I’ve been chumped by VW engineering
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I’ve been chumped. English has many words and phrases to describe taking it in the shorts: dupe, cheat, deceive, betray, fool, fleece, hustle, sting, swindle, mislead, gull, scam, defraud, trick, hoodwink, hoax, double-cross, bamboozle, rip off, shaft, pull a fast one, screw, sucker, snooker, stiff, among others. For my situation, I pick “chump,” originally an…
