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Colorado House Republicans offer amendments to remake civil rights commission
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The House Judiciary Committee Tuesday voted 10-1 to draft a bill to extend the Colorado Division of Civil Rights and the civil rights commission for nine more years. House Republicans offered six amendments that attempted to make sweeping changes to the commission, without success. All of the Republican amendments failed on a 4-7 party-line vote. The…
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Updated: Colorado House Democrats to lead committee and hearings on climate change
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Update: Rep. Chris Hansen tells Colorado Politics Republicans have appointed its members to the committee, Reps. Cole Wist of Centennial and Yeulin Willett of Grand Junction. The first meeting has been rescheduled to March 14 at the Capitol as soon as the House adjourns. The original post is below. ******************* The heat under the issues…
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State Sen. Irene Aguilar endorses Ashley Wheeland in HD 9 Democratic primary
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State Sen. Irene Aguilar, a Denver Democrat, this week endorsed Ashley Wheeland, one of two Democrats challenging state Rep. Paul Rosenthal in a primary in southeast Denver’s House District 9. “Ashley has a long record of fighting for Colorado communities and their health care, something I am passionate about as well,” Aguilar, a primary care physician,…
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Colorado regulators pass rules to help locate oil and gas pipelines
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The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission approved rules Tuesday to help the public get a general idea where oil and gas pipelines are located. The nine-member panel unanimously approved the regulatory update after three days of testimony. Regulators have been working on the proposal for months, in the wake of a home explosion in…
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Updated: What just happened? Oil and gas regulatory bill gets out of the House without floor debate
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House Republican Leader Patrick Neville of Castle Rock provided a statement Monday morning. “All this misleading bill is designed to do is shut down the oil and gas industry in Colorado, and Republicans were not going to give the bill sponsor the satisfaction of grandstanding on this terrible policy.” ******************** Maybe Rep. Joe Salazar slid…
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Rep. Paul Rosenthal rolls out homegrown endorsements in HD9 re-election bid
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Rep. Paul Rosenthal has two primary challengers in his re-election bid in House District 9, but he doesn’t lack support from fellow Democrats close to home. Rosenthal has key endorsements from former State Sen. Joyce Foster, Denver Councilwoman Kendra Black, Denver Public Schools board member Anne Rowe, and RTD board member Claudia Folska. Rosenthal said…
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Local officials throw support behind Democrat Phil Weiser’s attorney general bid
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Touting his commitment to issues important to rural Colorado, five current and former county commissioners and the mayor of Telluride on Wednesday endorsed Democratic attorney general candidate Phil Weiser, his campaign said. “Phil Weiser is a nationwide leader on broadband and worked under President Obama on a successful bipartisan initiative to encourage wireless broadband and…
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Rep. Joe Salazar spars with Colorado Springs activist over Right to Rest bill
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State Rep. Joe Salazar has a public beef with a Colorado Springs Gazette op-ed contributor over whether his legislation helps the homeless. In the back-and-forth community activist Rachel Stoval alleged his bill was a ploy to secure Democratic votes in El Paso County. “Right to Rest does not offer a single solution to homelessness. Shame…
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Trail Mix: The road to Colorado’s 2018 election, Feb. 4 edition
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THE HITS KEEP COMING: Remember the difficulty some state-level campaigns had filing their quarterly campaign finance reports last month, including a couple whose initial reports listed some of their major contributors’ donations twice? It turns out neither the candidates nor their compliance agents were to blame. Election officials at the Colorado secretary of state’s office…
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Democrat Michael Dougherty suspends attorney general campaign, applies for Boulder DA
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Democrat Michael Dougherty said Friday he was suspending his campaign for attorney general and had applied to fill the vacancy created by Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett’s decision to step down at the end of the month. Dougherty, the assistant district attorney for Jefferson and Gilpin counties and a former top prosecutor in the attorney general’s…