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YESTERYEAR: Legislature’s Dem minority presses hot-button Medicaid funding issue
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… Twenty Years Ago This Week in the Colorado Statesman … Democrat state legislators were making their opinions known on what they contended was a poor handling of Medicaid funding by the Republican majority. The minority party in both chambers had kicked off the 1997 legislative session clashing early and often with GOP leadership over Medicaid. One Senate…
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YESTERYEAR: Youth government mimics real life, politicos undergo reapportionment drama, Hick faces Denver election woes
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in the Colorado Statesman … When the cat’s away … While Colorado legislators were recessed, in their place, the Annual Youth in Government Program took over the House, Senate, judiciary and governor’s seats to get a hands on lesson in government affairs. Entering its 48th year, the youth program – sponsored…
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Battle lines forming over pot consumption issue
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Initial opinion polls have already been conducted and plans are being made by both sides in Denver, where voters will decide if they want to allow adults to use marijuana socially in regulated consumption spaces. The Denver Elections Division found backers of the measure, called the Neighborhood-Supported Cannabis Consumption Pilot Program, had submitted more than…
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YESTERYEAR: Election official warns moving primary to August could dampen vote
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Thirty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Legislators should be “ashamed” of moving the primary election from September to August, wrote Susan Duncan, president of the Denver Election Commission, in a guest commentary. “These are the dog days of August, when sensible people are paying attention to baseball – not politics,” she…
