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Hamner: 2017 legislative session was a productive one for Colorado
With the 2017 session of the Colorado General Assembly behind us, I am enjoying being back in my district and having some time to reflect back on the legislative session. From Jan. 11 to May 10, my colleagues and I worked very hard to find compromise on some very important issues, and as a result,…
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Micek: Griffin’s stunt the latest slide into incivility
An anonymous reader of the newspaper I work for had a lot on his mind: “If that was your hero Obama’s bloody head, I do believe there would have been a small novella condemning every right-winger … by now,” he or she, operating under cover of an online pseudonym, chided me. My faceless friend, as…
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YESTERYEAR: Legislator’s party flip infuriates local union
Thirty Years Ago this Week in the Colorado Statesman … State Rep. Faye Fleming, D-Thornton, switched her party affiliation from Democratic to Republican Feb. 14, 1987, only six weeks after she took office. One of her campaign contributors, United Steel Workers Local 8031, threatened to sue her for misrepresentation. The influential union also took to the…
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Perlmutter criticizes Dodd-Frank rewrite now slated for House vote
A Republican-led effort to rewrite the rules of the massive, post financial crisis measure Dodd-Frank is slated for a full House vote in June, despite Democrat’s effort – among them U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter – to derail the legislation in committee. At odds are Perlmutter’s contention that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection…
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Firestone tragedy unlikely to shake up Capitol oil and gas politics
A lot has changed in the wake of the oil and gas industry-linked explosion at the end of April in Firestone that killed two. Anadarko Petroleum shut down 3,000 wells. Matt Lepore, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission director, spoke about conducting “an ongoing conversation about new safety measures” of one kind or another. Gov.…
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Smith: Kogovsek’s death leaves a tremendous void
It is an enormous shock to read of the death of Ray Kogovsek, a superb public servant and a tireless supporter of his home town, Pueblo. I had the opportunity to serve in the Colorado House of Representatives for six of the years in which he served in the state Senate and it was always…
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Lawmakers battle oil and gas drilling setback bill from well-dug trenches
In Colorado, the rule is that oil and gas wells can be sited 1,000 feet from a school building. A bill that aimed to update that rule to measure the setback instead from the school property line drew crowds to the Capitol this month to testify in support of it and major drilling industry figures…