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Colorado campus free speech bill signed into law (with high marks for bipartisan support)

Apr 5, 2017

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John Tomasic

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday signed a state campus free speech bill passed with wide bipartisan support in both chambers of the Legislature this year. “Once we limit free speech to a zone, we indicate to our students that free speech does not exist anywhere beyond that zone,” state Sen. Tim Neville, a Littleton…
House passes self-driving cars, steers bill back to the Colorado Senate

Apr 4, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Self-driving cars passed the state House, 58-6, Tuesday, but will have to make a detour back to the state Senate on the way to the governor’s desk. The House tacked amendments on to Senate Bill 213, which will have to either approve or negotiate the changes with the House for the legislation to become eligible for Gov.…
Linda Newell’s ‘Last Bill’ documentary depicts what government looks like from the inside

Mar 23, 2017

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Ernest Luning

There were lights, more than a few cameras and plenty of action at the premiere of former state Sen. Linda Newell’s documentary film Saturday afternoon at a Littleton theater located in the heart of her old Senate district. There was also a massive, forbidding doorway to Skull Island lit by flickering tiki lights, and lots…
Colorado campus free speech bill scores full House support

Mar 21, 2017

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John Tomasic

Colorado’s campus free speech bill on Tuesday won a unanimous 64-0 vote on the state House floor. It was another triumph of bipartisan support for a bill that was early linked in the minds of lawmakers to contentious conservative cable-news narratives but that broke increasingly free with each committee and floor debate to be embraced…
#Coleg Week 9: Concerning gay conversion, early voting, rolling coal, pot for PTSD, and more

Mar 7, 2017

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John Tomasic

Happy halfway mark. On Wednesday, lawmakers will arrive at this year’s legislative session midpoint. Many of the House and Senate minority party bills doomed to die in committee have lived their brief and sometimes newsmaking lives. Now many of the bills doomed to die at the hands of the opposite chamber majority party will meet…
What, no football? The Thanksgiving holiday spent with some of Colorado’s legislators

Nov 28, 2016

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Brian Heuberger

OK, a few did manage to watch some of the ballgames Turkey pardoning aside, Thanksgiving is a time for political puff-pieces. So, in retrospect of this year’s food-filled holiday of grace, here’s a well-deserved “puff-piece” for our hard-working and fierce campaigning Statehouse candidates … Thanksgiving provided Colorado’s politicos – many of them still recovering from…
State legislative contests resolve into stalemate

Nov 9, 2016

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John Tomasic

Democrats add to House majority; Republicans retain Senate majority At the end of a long election season that delivered shocks at every stage, including a dramatic upset win for Donald Trump at the top of the Republican ticket, voters in Colorado shuffled some of the players at the state Capitol but didn’t change the game.…
Political mailers hit, miss marks as campaigns target voters

Oct 13, 2016

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Ernest Luning

It’s that time of year – in an election year, at least – when campaign mailers are falling as thick as autumn leaves, and as Nov. 8 approaches, political pros say the barrage of postage-paid brochures will only grow. Even as candidates, outside groups and issue-oriented committees pour on the voter contact with seemingly more…
The Hot Sheet, August 19, 2016

Aug 19, 2016

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Jared Wright

VOL. 01 NO. 156 | AUGUST 19, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Good morning and Happy Friday. Good luck on the campaign trail as you enter your weekend … Top 3 headlines today: (1) BENNET HOLDS 16 POINT LEAD OVER DARRYL GLENN, COLORADO’S CONTRIBUTION TO MAINTAINING U.S. SENATE CONTROL NOT…
#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups

Jun 29, 2016

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John Tomasic

A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…