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Adversaries say they’re optimistic about bipartisan construction defects reform legislation

Mar 20, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Groups on both sides of the legislative battle over construction defects litigation expressed optimism this weekend that bipartisan legislation introduced late Friday could be a step toward resolving a problem that has frustrated lawmakers for years. “We are appreciative that this team has not given up on bringing about reform,” Colorado Concern President Mike Kopp,…
Grantham: Don’t call new construction defects bill a ‘compromise’

Mar 20, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Senate President Kevin Grantham tossed some cold water this weekend on the bipartisan backslapping that greeted the introduction of a new bill aimed at resolving longstanding tensions over construction defects litigation policy and spurring moribund condominium construction across the state. “Don’t call it a compromise,” the Cañon City Republican told The Colorado Statesman on Saturday. “It isn’t…
Lawmakers introduce bipartisan compromise bill to tackle construction defects issues

Mar 18, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A bipartisan group of legislators introduced a compromise bill late Friday aimed at encouraging developers to build condominium projects while preserving the right of homeowners to have their day in court. The legislation arrives at the end of a week that saw a Democratic-sponsored bill and a Republican-sponsored bill covering much of the same territory both…
Backers outraged after Duran sends GOP-sponsored construction bill to kill committee

Mar 15, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Supporters of a Republican-sponsored bill to require condominium owners and builders to submit claims alleging construction problems to arbitration howled with outrage Wednesday after Democratic House Speaker Crisanta Duran assigned the legislation to the House “kill committee.” Meanwhile, compromise legislation authored by a bipartisan team of House lawmakers could be waiting in the wings, but…
Colorado Senate passes GOP bill aimed at curbing construction-defects litigation

Mar 8, 2017

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Ernest Luning

The Colorado Senate gave bipartisan approval Tuesday to a Republican-sponsored bill to require owners and builders of condominiums to submit disputes over construction problems to arbitration or mediation before filing class-action lawsuits. Five Democrats joined every Republican senator voting in favor of Senate Bill 156 on third reading, sending the bill on a 23-12 vote…
Senate committee OKs condo construction bill to require arbitration

Feb 28, 2017

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Ernest Luning

A Republican-sponsored bill to require condominium owners and builders to submit disputes over construction problems to arbitration or mediation passed its first hurdle Monday, winning bipartisan approval in a Senate committee. But opponents call the legislation’s central component a nonstarter and predict the bill will meet its demise in the Democratic-controlled House, despite plenty of…
Insider Morris Saunders joins Capitol insider firm Sewald Hanfling

Feb 6, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Brittany Morris Saunders is well known in Colorado’s business, political and philanthropic circles as the Downtown Denver Partnership’s senior vice president for economic development and public affairs. On Feb. 21 she will be known as the president of local affairs for the Capitol insider firm Sewald Hanfling Public Affairs. Morris Saunders also is leaving the Denver Planning…
Sewald Hanfling adds Brittany Morris Saunders as local affairs chief

Feb 2, 2017

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Ernest Luning

UPDATED with comments from Mayor Michael Hancock, Tami Door and R.D. Sewald. Brittany Morris Saunders, the senior vice president for economic development and public affairs with the Downtown Denver Partnership, is joining Sewald Hanfling Public Affairs, a Denver-based lobbying, business development and communications firm, The Colorado Statesman has learned. Saunders, a former economic development director for…
Colorado Technology Association aims to steer state into the future

Jan 18, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado’s technology industry is booming, and Andrea Young couldn’t be happier. Young, the president and CEO of the Colorado Technology Association, a trade organization that represents more 300 companies and counts some 15,000 people involved in its network, said in a recent interview with The Colorado Statesman that she’s excited about the prospects for the…
Private security guards begin patrols in downtown Denver

Aug 18, 2016

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Associated Press

Denver has stepped up public safety efforts by adding security guards to patrol the city’s downtown. The Denver Post reports that the guards, who are employed by Allied Universal Security, will monitor Denver’s 16th Street Mall 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They will be unarmed, but equipped with pepper spray and handcuffs to…