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Fix Our Damn Roads could ask Colo. voters to force lawmakers to use existing taxes
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Fix Our Damn Roads, a ballot initiative to force Colorado lawmakers to spend existing taxes on transportation instead of a new one, will soon receive signatures from like-minded voters. The effort is counter to a proposal being considered by a coalition led by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, which could ask voters to approve…
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Heavily amended transportation bill passes House committee
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A legislative committee heavily amended a transportation funding bill Thursday morning, setting up a beat-the-clock showdown for perhaps the session’s biggest issue: relieving traffic congestion and addressing long-neglecting roads, bridges and transit. Senate Bill 1 passed on an 8-7 party-line vote and still must pass the House Finance Committee before reaching full chamber for a…
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Colorado Senate committee unplugs bill to allow Xcel to build EV charging stations
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DENVER – The state Senate Transportation Committee Tuesday killed legislation what would have opened the way for Xcel Energy to build electrical vehicle (EV) charging stations to bolster the development of the alternative transport. It failed on a 3-2 vote along party lines. Senate Bill 216 aimed to remove a prohibition on investor-owned utilities from building…
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Colorado Senate amendment would push transportation tax vote to 2019
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DENVER – Amendments to a critical transportation funding bill Wednesday night trimmed a request from the state budget to $250 million a year and delayed the request for permission from voters until November 2019. The Colorado Senate has been wrestling with Senate Bill 1 for a week. The legislation would tap the state budget ea each…
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Colorado’s Independence Institute isn’t shy about its NRA tie
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Denver Public Schools may have decided to trade weapons for plowshares – it announced last week it would turn down National Rifle Association grants for assorted school programs in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school massacre – but the Second Amendment-friendly, Denver-based Independence Institute is sticking to its guns. As the Associated Press reported over the…
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Colorado Senate Republicans: Still a ‘NO’ on banning bump stocks, but yes to RMGO money
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The Trump administration is OK with a ban on bump stocks. The Florida Legislature, despite opposition from the National Rifle Association, last week approved a package of gun control measures, including a ban on bump stocks that increase the firing capacity of normal rifles. Colorado’s state Senate is a week away from hearing a bill that…
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Conservative website calls out Democrat Jason Crow for law firm’s lobbying history on behalf of gun interests
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The conservative Washington Free Beacon on Monday pointed out that Democratic congressional candidate Jason Crow works at a high-powered law firm that has lobbied and done legal work for gun interests at the same time he’s attacked the “gun lobby” and been calling on U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman to return campaign contributions from the National…
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In the shadow of another school shooting, ‘teachers with guns’ bill fails in Colorado
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In the wake of a Columbine-style school shooting in Florida last week, Colorado lawmakers again weighed a trio of bills aimed at loosening up the state’s gun laws. All three failed on a partisan vote, as they do each year, including one that would have allowed school staff to carry firearms with an existing concealed…
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Duck! The legislature’s in session! …But there’s no need to tell that to CUT
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Wikipedia reminds us it was the now-forgotten 19th century New York politician Gideon J. Tucker who observed, “No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.” It’s a sentiment that nowadays draws more applause on the right than the left. And among those whose daily toils include wooing and cajoling lawmakers to…
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Some Colorado millennials take on a California gun issue
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Periodic opinion page contributor Jimmy Sengenberger, prez of the right-leaning Millennial Policy Center in Denver, says his organization is weighing in on a California court case with potential landmark implications for guns owners. The center and attorney Joseph G.S. Greelee, a fellow in constitutional studies and firearms policy at the center, filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday…
