dominick moreno
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Colorado lawmakers take preliminary action on PERA repayment
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Despite concerns around gubernatorial opposition to making up a missed 2020 payment to the Public Employees Retirement Association, the House Finance Committee took first action this week on House Bill 1029. That measure would not only make up the $225 million payment due in 2020 that was suspended due to the recession, but also add…
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Colorado Democrats pick Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg as next Senate president
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Senate Majority Leader Sen. Steve Fenberg of Boulder is poised to be the next Senate president after winning the support of his Democratic colleagues Wednesday. Fenberg’s selection means he will stand for the election by the entire Senate later this month. If he wins the overall election, the Boulder Democrat will succeed Senate President Leroy…
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Republicans in Colorado House, Senate approach immigration bills differently
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Two bills this legislative session — both dealing with services to immigrants living in Colorado unlawfully — show how Republicans in the House differ on the issue from their counterparts in the state Senate. The most recent example: A bill that would allow undocumented college students to apply for instate financial aid. The issue dates back…
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Colorado Senate gives bipartisan support to expanding driver’s license program for undocumented immigrants
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The Colorado state Senate on Thursday approved a bill to expand the number of driver’s license offices that can offer identity documents, including driver’s licenses, to undocumented residents. The 25-10 vote included a “yes” from one of the Senate’s most conservative members, Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling, who was joined by five other members of…
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Bipartisan bill would expand access to ID cards for undocumented immigrants
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A bipartisan bill introduced this week in the Colorado legislature would expand the state’s program for granting undocumented immigrants driver’s licenses and state identification cards from its current four offices to at least 10. Senate Bill 139 is sponsored by Republican Sens. Don Coram of Montrose and Kevin Priola of Henderson and Democratic Sen. Dominick…
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Fight over bid to strip school-choice provision from foster-kids bus law
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Senate Republicans Wednesday mounted a furious effort to amend a bill that would strip out what’s viewed as school-choice language from a 2018 law that pays for foster children to be transported to their original schools when they’re uprooted from one home to another. Update: Thursday, the Senate voted 19-16 along party lines to advance…
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Dems change their tune a day after Polis presents budget proposal
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Colorado Money Dollar Budget(Photo illustration by bubaone, iStock) What a difference 24 hours makes. Two Senate Democrats who sounded skeptical Tuesday when Gov. Jared Polis first shared his proposal for amending the 2019-20 governor’s budget request were singing a different tune a day later. On Tuesday, Polis gave reporters a sneak peek at his budget…
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INSIGHTS | Pot foe says kids provided a reason to pass CBD bill
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To say Colorado state Rep. Lois Landgraf loves pot is like setting up a punch line. The Republican from Fountain, however, thinks sick kids are no laughing matter. “I’ve always been against marijuana, but this isn’t that,” she said over the phone one evening about a pot-related bill she fought for last legislative session. She…
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Capitol M: Week ending July 13, 2018
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Although the General Assembly is not in session, there’s enough going on outside of the legislative races, and inside it, too, to take another walk among the Mmmmmms. Good luck…to Democratic Sen. Dominick Moreno of Commerce City, who was recently appointed to the Adams 14 school board. Now Capitol M did a little checking on…
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PRIMARY 2018: Polis, Stapleton to face off in November for Colo. governor
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Republican Walker Stapleton and Democrat Jared Polis, two sitting office-holders with high name recognition and lots of campaign cash, dominated their opponents and claimed victories in their parties’ primary races for governor less than an hour after the polls closed Tuesday. In all-but-final tallies June 28, Stapleton had received 47.7 percent of the Republican vote…
