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State senator wants AG review of Hickenlooper’s Tesla connections
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Update: the Air Quality Control Commission voted 8-0 with one recusal Friday afternoon to approve the rules on low-emission vehicles. Republican state Sen. John Cooke of Greeley has asked Attorney General Cynthia Coffman to investigate whether Gov. John Hickenlooper broke the law by allegedly touring a Tesla electric-car factory in Nevada shortly before ordering the…
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INSIGHTS | Pot foe says kids provided a reason to pass CBD bill
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To say Colorado state Rep. Lois Landgraf loves pot is like setting up a punch line. The Republican from Fountain, however, thinks sick kids are no laughing matter. “I’ve always been against marijuana, but this isn’t that,” she said over the phone one evening about a pot-related bill she fought for last legislative session. She…
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Stapleton picks Rep. Lang Sias as GOP running mate
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With a backdrop of military aircraft and heroic leadership as a setting, Republican gubernatorial nominee Walker Stapleton announced a state legislator and former Navy Top Gun pilot, Rep. Lang Sias, as his running mate. Stapleton revealed his choice at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Denver on July 11, honoring Sias,…
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There were many good reasons to reject ‘red flag’ legislation
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In the closing days of the 2018 session of the General Assembly, the so-called “red flag” bill was rushed through the state House of Representatives in only five days from introduction to passage. House Democrats and the progressive media were united and vocal in their support, but in the end, only two of 47 Republicans…
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Hickenlooper signs bill reauthorizing Colo. civil rights agency
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Surrounded by more than a hundred supporters, civil rights commissioners and the staff of Colorado’s civil rights agency outside the state Capitol, Gov. John Hickenlooper Tuesday signed into law the bill that keeps the agency on course for the next nine years. House Bill 1256 reauthorizes both the Division of Civil Rights and the Colorado…
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Senate sends transportation funding bill to the governor
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None of the Republicans in the state House of Representatives supported it earlier in the day, but Senate Republicans collected a unanimous vote Tuesday night to send a bill to the governor that will eventually put almost $3 billion into the state’s beleaguered transportation system. Senate Bill 1 puts $495 million into roads, bridges and…
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Civil rights division bill could go by the wayside in session’s final days
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With just over 36 hours to go in the 2018 legislative session, one issue that has yet to be resolved is what happens to Colorado’s Division of Civil Rights and Colorado Civil Rights Commission. On April 30, the Senate passed its version of House Bill 1256, which drew immediate criticism from House Democrats and Gov.…
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Colo. House Democrats eye late overhaul on transportation
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With a week left in the legislative session, Colorado House Democrats are poised to introduce a major overhaul to a transportation bill that passed the state Senate unanimously more than a month ago. The change is significant. Rather than asking for permission to borrow $3.5 billion and repay it with $250 million a year from…
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"Red Flag" gun bill has bipartisan, law enforcement backing
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A bill that supporters hope will prevent the kinds of situations that led to the New Year’s Eve ambush of a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy was introduced in the House Monday. The Deputy Zackari Parrish, III Violence Prevention Act, House Bill 1436, is backed by bipartisan House leadership, as well as gun control and law…
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Senate Republican leaders talk major issues left in final full week of session
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Senate Republican leaders Monday reviewed the last major issues remaining with one last full week to go in Colorado’s 2018 legislative session: transportation, the state pension plan and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. They also put a solid nail in the coffin for a bill that, as introduced, would jail teachers who go out on…
