janak joshi
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Highlight reel: Colorado’s wild and woolly 2016 election season
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Symbolic of the divisiveness of our politics, many Coloradans will look back at the 2016 election with violent contempt, reflecting on a political year that saw the rise of President-elect Donald Trump, while others will reminisce with sublime glee over a cycle where voters bucked the political establishment. In a year full of tectonic shifts…
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The Hot Sheet, August 9, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 148 | AUGUST 09, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Good morning. Yesterday, Colorado activist groups of all sorts of varieties submitted petition signatures to Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams‘s office in attempts to legislate from the streets, placing issues near and dear to their hearts on the November general election…
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Trump’s Colorado campaign announces senior staff
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Donald Trump’s Colorado campaign on Monday announced its senior staff, including several operatives and politicians familiar to state Republicans. “The team we have assembled in Colorado will help bring victory to the Trump campaign in November. I am confident that every staff member will help spread Mr. Trump’s message of change throughout the state,” state…
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Noonan: Surprise! State House and Senate leadership agreed with each other in 2016
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Four of the six legislative leaders are retiring: Democratic House Speaker Dickie Lee Hullinghorst, Senate President Bill Cadman, Senate Majority Leader Mark Scheffel and House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso. House Majority Leader Crisanta Duran and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, both from Denver, will return. With four members of leadership waving goodbye, perhaps it’s not…
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Noonan: Sponsored bills reveal how House members do their job
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Legislators make their mark through their sponsored bills. Sponsored bills show what issues legislators commit to, their bipartisan collegiality, their productivity in bills passed versus bills killed, and their dispositions related to bills that function as messages versus bills intended to become law. Legislators are supposed to sponsor no more than five bills, but only…
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Hickenlooper signs bill creating national cybersecurity center in Colorado Springs
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Gov. John Hickenlooper signed legislation on the steps of the El Pomar Center Friday at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. At a bill signing ceremony crowded with state legislators and other high-ranking officials, he jotted his signature to an act establishing Colorado’s formal push to become a national leader in cybersecurity. House Bill 16-1453…
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Hospital fee debate moves on to second act in Senate
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The curtain officially rose Thursday in the House on the long drama centered around the Democratic-led effort to reclassify the state’s $700 million hospital provider fee as an enterprise fund. By Friday at roughly 11:00 a.m., the first act had concluded. Two bills concerning the reclassification passed with Republican support and headed to the Senate,…
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Newbie Rep. Leonard holds floor show in opposition to Israel bill, draws spotlight, questions
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Rep. Tim Leonard, R-Evergreen, the newest member of the Colorado Legislature, made a grand statement Thursday, traveling down to the well of the House for his first time, initiating a dramatic legislative maneuver and holding forth at length, all in opposition to a bill popular with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that seeks to prevent the…
