jim smallwood
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Q&A with Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg | At the end of 16 years of public service
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State Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, is the only one of 100 lawmakers in the 2022 session who has served for a full 16 years: four consecutive two-year terms in the House followed by two consecutive four-year terms in the Senate. First elected in 2006 to the House and in 2014 to the Senate, his district…
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Safe-haven bill on newborns gets new life from Colorado Senate ‘kill’ committee
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A bill that originally required that schools provide “safe haven” information on dealing with unwanted newborns as part of the state’s comprehensive sex education program won a reprieve late Wednesday from the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. Senate Bill 25 is sponsored by Republican Sen. Jim Smallwood of Parker. As introduced, the bill…
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Republican aide to Colorado senator fired over sexual harassment post
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DENVER – A source in a Colorado Politics story Wednesday about sexual harassment accusations against Sen. Jack Tate was fired Thursday morning over an offensive social media post. Andrew Knarr, 25, was fired as an aide to Sen. Jim Smallwood, R-Parker, for an offensive posting on Snapchat about the sexual harassment training he received as a…
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Hickenlooper signs first bill of 2018 session on nursing licensure
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With one day to spare, (whew!) Gov. John Hickenlooper Thursday signed into law the first bill passed by the 2018 General Assembly, a measure to help Colorado nurses. The new law would allow Colorado’s 78,000 nurses to participate in a 25-state compact that allows them to work across state lines. The compact had a deadline…
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Fix to last year’s omnibus rural Colorado bill leaves decision to special districts
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Late Tuesday the state Senate rolled out the bill that will fix last year’s unintentional error in the omnibus bill for rural Colorado. Senate Bill 18-088 has 22 Senate co-sponsors, which ought to be more than enough to get it across the finish line in that chamber, except for one small detail. The bill doesn’t…
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Right will lead the right at CUT awards breakfast featuring — surprise! — Tancredo
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Tom Tancredo says he’s taking the public’s temperature, gauging its appetite for yet another gubernatorial run. A more world-weary reading of the former congressman/forever firebrand’s ad hoc stumping around the state is that it’s a case of, “Oh please, no! Really? Me? You want me to run for guv? Again?” Either way, Colorado’s favorite fusion…
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Far more lawmakers get F’s than A’s on AFP-Colorado’s right-leaning report card
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Remember that high school teacher or college prof who was known as “an easy A”? The one you didn’t have to worry about too much around finals? No such luck for the 100 members of Colorado’s General Assembly – at least, not when it comes to the report card just issued on the lawmakers…
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Getting to yes, just saying no: Lawmakers Everett, Hansen and Kennedy talk session votes
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By one measure, state Rep. Justin Everett, a House Republican serving his third term in the Colorado General Assembly, and state Reps. Chris Hansen and Chris Kennedy, a pair of Democrats in their first terms, stand as far apart as any lawmakers at the Capitol, based on the votes they cast in the just-completed 2017…
