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Q&A with Rep. Alec Garnett | Speaker of the House reflects on his time in the legislature
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At 38, Speaker of the House Alec Garnett, D-Denver, is in his last of eight years in the Colorado House and among the youngest to serve in that position. Garnett is the third Democrat from the Capitol Hill House District to wield the speaker’s gavel. He follows former speakers Mark Ferrandino, the youngest to ever…
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Imagination Library of Colorado launches statewide expansion
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When last we saw Republican former state Sen. Jack Tate, he was headed off to his hometown of Nashville, Tenn., to help manage a nonprofit called Project Return and take care of his mother. But longing to come home to his Colorado family, he’s now managing another nonprofit that he had a hand in setting…
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Campaign-ad disclosures would tighten under Colorado Senate bill
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A first step toward tightening some of Colorado’s laws around campaign communications, which stalled two years ago in the state Senate, is now out of the Senate and on its way to the House. Senate Bill 68 is sponsored by Democratic Sen. Rachel Zenzinger of Arvada and Republican Sen. Jack Tate of Centennial, and backed…
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Colorado state Sen. Jack Tate won’t seek another term
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Two years ahead of the election, state Sen. Jack Tate, a Republican from Centennial, said he won’t run again in 2020 for another term in the Legislature. “Coming from a long career in business, I never intended for this to be a replacement career,” he said Thursday in a statement to Colorado Politics. “It was…
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Colorado business group decries veto of aircraft tax break
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The Colorado Aviation Business Association spoke up Thursday about Gov. John Hickenlooper’s veto of a tax break for charter aircraft carriers. The legislation exempting the aircraft owners from paying sales and use taxes could have cost the state budget up to $223,500 a year, according to legislative analysts. Supporters said it would have created jobs…
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Colo. lawmakers find common ground on filling state pension’s $32 billion hole
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Colorado lawmakers cured – they hope – the state employees’ ailing pension plan in the waning minutes of the 120-day Colorado legislative session Wednesday night, a remedy that could help keep Colorado’s credit rating from taking a hit. House and Senate negotiators reached a deal that was approved by both chambers. That should be a relief…
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THE PODIUM | Fix PERA now — before its problems gets worse
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By the end of 2017, Coloradans learned that PERA, the state’s public employee retirement plan, had unfunded pension liabilities of approximately $50 billion. Senate Bill 18-200 is a bipartisan response to PERA’s approaching financial crisis which has passed the Senate and now awaits consideration in the House of Representatives. PERA’s long-term pension obligations are not…
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Capitol M: Week ending April 6, Budget Edition
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Take me out to the ballgame, take me out to the crowd, or, what goes on at the Capitol when lawmakers are not sitting at Coors Field, or as it was briefly known as on Friday, Citizens Bank Park. The next time Rep. Leslie Herod offers you donuts around April Fool’s Day…Capitol M advises…
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Report on Capitol’s culture of sexual harassment finds few cases are reported
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DENVER – About 28 percent of the people who work at the Colorado Capitol have witnessed workplace harassment, but only about 13 percent reported it. Of those, 72 percent were unhappy with the outcome, according to a workplace culture report made public Thursday morning. Seventy percent of female legislators reported seeing behavior they considered sexual harassment,…
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Sexual harassment cases taking a toll on lawmakers, not just the accused
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DENVER – As the Colorado Senate debated the fate of Sen. Randy Baumgardner over sexual harassment charges in a rare evening session, Sen. Lucia Guzman was thinking of sunrise on Good Friday, a time of atonement and healing. The resolution to expel Baumgardner failed in a 17-17 tie after a four-hour hearing. In speech after speech,…
