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House committee wants “cooling off” before utility reps could serve on PUC
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DENVER – Pueblo officials are so mad about high electricity rates that they want to clamp down on how soon industry officials can serve on the state Public Utilities Commission in the future. House Bill 1281 would establish a four-year “cooling-off period” before anyone who has been an officer or director for a regulated utility could…
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Q&A w/Nancy Spence: Her path was politics; her mission remains education
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Throughout her 14 years representing a broad swath of Arapahoe County in the General Assembly – three terms in the House, two terms in the Senate – Nancy Spence was something of a rarity among her peers at the Capitol. A Republican woman – a bit unusual in its own right at the legislature – who voted against the grain of her…
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Duran hits ground running as House speaker
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Even before she took the oath of office, state Rep. Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, readily answered to the title of Speaker of the House. As roll call was taken Wednesday, Jan. 11, the first day of the 71st General Assembly, the clerk asked if the speaker was present and both state Rep. Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel –…
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YESTERYEAR: Dole, Kemp make first campaign stop in Denver after boisterous GOP convention
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Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole and his running mate Jack Kemp – the “American Dream team” – would make their first post-convention campaign appearance in Denver, underlining the importance of Colorado as a crucial swing state in the 1996 election. The Kansas senator gave a…
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YESTERYEAR: Owens calls special session on redistricting, growth
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Bill Owens had announced a special legislative session to tackle congressional redistricting and urban growth, calling for it to start in a little over two months, on Sept. 20, and already the parties were going to their corners. “The last time we had a special…
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BARTELS: Honoring “The Lady of the House”
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Lawmakers past and present showed up Tuesday to pay tribute to Lee Bahrych, the former chief clerk of the state House who loved the Capitol as much as she despised the pranks rowdy lawmakers were prone to pull. Former staffer Donna Acierno recalled how Bahrych once got so annoyed with Rep. Scott McInnis she…
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YESTERYEAR: Andrews rips Dems, ‘shadow senator’ for playing coyote to roadrunner Owens
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Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Senate Minority Leader John Andrews, R-Centennial, excoriated Senate President Stan Matsunaka, D-Loveland, for “doom[ing] compromise on the year’s toughest issue” in the just-concluded special session on growth with his “belligerent, partisan and profane” words. In a stinging guest commentary, Andrews criticized the Democrats at the…
