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Colorado faces budget deficit as lawmakers consider $2 billion more in spending

Mar 30, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

Colorado lawmakers this month began reviewing the state’s spending plan for the next fiscal year in the face of tight revenues and a budget deficit — even as policymakers are pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding requests. Only a tight sliver of those requests will likely get funded, if at all, once…
Colorado faces budget deficit as lawmakers consider $2 billion more in spending

Mar 30, 2024

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Marianne Goodland

Colorado lawmakers this month began reviewing the state’s spending plan for the next fiscal year in the face of tight revenues and a budget deficit — even as policymakers are pushing for hundreds of millions of dollars in funding requests. Only a tight sliver of those requests will likely get funded, if at all, once…
Colorado lawmakers vote to give themselves a pay raise beginning in 2025

Feb 22, 2024

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Marianne Goodl

Colorado House Democrats on Thursday voted to boost the pay of General Assembly lawmakers beginning in the 2025-26 fiscal year, with those living in the Denver metro area getting substantially more in actual dollars and rate increase than policymakers who reside outside. The cost to taxpayers for the higher per diems is just shy of…
32 bills died without votes in the Colorado legislature this year. Here’s what they’d do.

May 28, 2023

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Hannah Metzger

Some bills end not with a bang but a whimper. In Colorado’s 2023 legislative session, 32 bills died on the calendar. That means the bills failed not because lawmakers voted to reject them, but because they never got around to holding a vote in the first place. Lawmakers often choose to kill bills in this…
House kills bill to ban talking on hand-held cellphones while driving

May 11, 2022

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Hannah Metzger

Inaction from the state House killed a bill that aimed to ban adults from talking on cellphones while driving, except when using a hands-free accessory like a Bluetooth headset. Though Senate Bill 175 passed the Senate in a 24-10 vote in April and passed the House Transportation Committee in a 12-1 vote on May 2,…
House Appropriations Committee approves fentanyl bill

Apr 22, 2022

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MARIANNE GOODLAND

Friday’s House Appropriations Committee hearing on House Bill 1326 resulted in several substantial changes to the measure, but not the big one that could surface later today – making all possession of fentanyl a felony. That would be a concession to Gov. Jared Polis, who’s advocated for felony charges on any level of possession, but it’s a…
Cynthia Coffman, attorneys general ask Congress to preserve federal legal aid funding

May 27, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican, and her Democratic counterpart in Massachusetts this week organized 30 of their fellow attorneys general urging Congress to reject a Trump administration budget proposal that would eliminate federal spending on civil legal services for rural and low-income Americans. “For more than 40 years, under Republican and Democratic administrations, the Legal…
The Hot Sheet – Boulder fearful of Trump, Gov. race ‘free-for-all,’ CO AG pushes back against openness?, a new voice for immigration reform and … MORE!

Dec 5, 2016

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Colorado Politics

VOL. 01 NO. 198 | DECEMBER 5, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 DENVER – Start of a new week! We can’t decide whether to hum “Monday, Monday” or “Let it Snow.” Thoughts? Discuss … For political junkies, you could attend a Christmas party this weekend without discussions (speculation) shifting to the 2018 governor’s race or…