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Transgender birth certificates get initial Colorado House approval

Mar 14, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

A bill to make it easier for transgender Coloradans to change their birth certificates got an initial approval on a voice vote Tuesday morning, but not without a loud chorus of no’s from House Republicans. The Democratic majority has passed such legislation three years in a row only for their bills to die in the Republican-led…
Colorado ‘sanctuary state’ bill ready to roll out Thursday

Mar 14, 2017

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John Tomasic

Sponsors of Colorado’s “Ralph Carr Freedom Defense Act” plan to roll out the bill Thursday during a press event on the west steps of the Capitol. The hot-button bill, sponsored by Democrats Joe Salazar from Thornton and Daneya Esgar from Pueblo in the House and Lucia Guzman from Denver and Daniel Kagan from Cheery Hills…
Leroy Garcia talks Pueblo, treatment for opioid abuse in Senate Dems’ inaugural podcast

Mar 13, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Assistant Minority Leader Leroy Garcia discusses Pueblo, a bill to combat opioid abuse and the importance of reading early in life in the first episode of “Behind the Politics,” a weekly podcast produced by the Senate Democrats. Garcia, a Pueblo Democrat, calls Pueblo a fascinating community and recommends visiting Lake Pueblo, one of the area’s most…
House fast-tracks Esgar bill to create specialty license plate featuring Pueblo chile

Feb 28, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Who says state lawmakers can’t move quickly when there’s a compelling reason to speed things up? In an effort to beat New Mexico to the bumper, so to speak, state Rep. Daneya Esgar, a Pueblo Democrat, on Tuesday amended her bill to create a Pueblo Chile specialty license plate before the state’s southern neighbor can produce…
Groups push back against health care repeal, as state looks for solutions

Feb 23, 2017

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Peter Marcus

Activists again took to the steps of the Colorado Capitol on Thursday to demand that Congress and state lawmakers think twice about repealing components of federal health care law. The rally – one of several so far this year – came as part of a lobby day at the Capitol involving health care consumers, business owners and…
Women candidate interest on both sides soars after Trump win

Feb 23, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Diana DeGette was not directly part of the 1992 political “Year of the Women,” the historic election cycle when four freshman female U.S. senators were elected. But she did win her first elected office that year, as a Colorado state representative in Denver. DeGette has since represented Colorado in the U.S. House for two decades…
#Coleg Week 5: State Obamacare repeal, construction defects, weed clubs, tax breaks for private school parents, home energy storage

Feb 6, 2017

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John Tomasic

What’s happening this week under the gold dome? Here are some select highlights from the legislative schedule, all of which of course subject to change, given that there are 100 lawmakers and a million lobbyists in the building each day. Monday HB 1038, prohibiting corporal punishment in public school and state-licensed day care centers. The…
Want Pueblo Chile on your plate? Call your legislator today

Feb 3, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

If things go as they usually do on these things, you can soon ride with pride with the Pueblo Chile. House Bill 1012 would create a special license plate to honor the pepper that’s the pride of Pueblo. The bill passed its first hurdle Thursday, when the House Transportation and Energy Committee gave it an…
Through tears of pride and sorrow, Legislature hosts annual Military Appreciation Day

Jan 27, 2017

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John Tomasic

Friday the 100 members of the Colorado Legislature are recognizing Military, Veterans, and MIA/POW Appreciation Day. There are tears of sorrow and pride, stories of heroism in combat overseas and in quietly readjusting to everyday life at home. There are puffed up chests and tear-stained cheeks. It will last hours. Men and women in uniform…
Contests for legislative leadership taking shape in tumultuous election year

Oct 27, 2016

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Ernest Luning

There’s more than one election looming within the next couple of weeks in Colorado. Two days after voters finish casting ballots on Nov. 8, state lawmakers – including what could be more than a dozen newly elected legislators – are scheduled to gather at the Capitol to elect leadership positions for the 71st General Assembly.…