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Silencing Elizabeth Warren prompts Colorado Senate Democrats to speak up

Feb 9, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

U.S. Senate Republicans Wednesday shut down Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s attempt to read a 31-year-old letter from Corette Scott King about Sen. Jeff Sessions when he sought a federal judgeship in Alabama 1986. She tried to make Scott’s words part of Senate debate on Sessions’ nomination as attorney general. Sessions was confirmed, 52-47. Democratic state senators…
Senate Democrats post their reading of Coretta Scott King letter opposing Sessions

Feb 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Members of the Colorado Senate’s Democratic caucus on Wednesday released a video of them reading the decades-old letter that led to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s rebuke on the floor of the U.S. Senate the night before. The letter, written in 1986 by Coretta Scott King, laid out her opposition to the confirmation of Jeff Sessions…
Bill allowing more options for child care gets nod from both parties

Feb 9, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Opening one’s home to provide child care isn’t as simple as hanging up a tire swing and then hanging out a sign. Far from it. An array of state and local regulations can come into play; among those, of course, are state rules capping how many kids can be watched in the home at one time. For those…
Kefalas on database open records bill: ‘We’re ready to engage’

Feb 6, 2017

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John Tomasic

State Sen. John Kefalas has been working for years to open state databases to the public through the Colorado Open Records Act. His latest bill on the topic was scheduled for a hearing Monday, but news came hours before the hearing was set to begin that Kefalas would have to wait another week to start…
Heavily anticipated hearing on state open records bill delayed

Feb 6, 2017

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John Tomasic

A Senate committee hearing on a much-anticipated state open records bill was postponed Monday, taking the bill sponsor and witnesses lined up to testify by surprise. Senate Bill 40 was set to be heard in the Republican-controlled State Affairs committee this afternoon. News of the delay was announced on the floor of the Senate this…
Coalition says bills make open records, well, more open

Jan 6, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The public could find it easier to get public records in Colorado if a handful of legislators, both Republicans and Democrats, get what they want in the next legislative session. My friend Jeffrey A. Roberts previews several possible reforms to Colorado’s Open Records Act in the legislative session that begins Wednesday on the Colorado Freedom…
Noonan: Mulligan legislation has poor success record at Capitol

May 21, 2016

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Paula Noonan

Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, chastised Gov. John Hickenlooper and Capitol leadership at a recent luncheon for a poor record of accomplishment in the 2016 General Assembly. She wants legislators to take another crack at reclassifying the hospital provider fee and reforming construction defects law, two issues that got…
BARTELS: SIPA doles out micro-grants to help Colorado governments get online

Mar 30, 2016

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Lynn Bartels

An app for anglers statewide, a GIS map for fire hydrants in the Le Veta Fire Protection District and scanning newspaper articles about the Chicano movement for Colorado State University at Pueblo — those proposals and more received micro-grants Tuesday night from a program designed to help government put more information and services online. The…
The Hot Sheet, March 22, 2016

Mar 22, 2016

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Jared Wright

VOL. 01 NO. 48 | MARCH 22, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ DENVER — Not a good Tuesday morning in the world with yet another terrorist attack striking the heart of Brussels, Belgium, 2 explosions at Brussels Airport and one at a subway station with at least…
Bartels: Colorado Nonprofit Association honors those who help make their communities better

Mar 17, 2016

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Lynn Bartels

Bill Hana, a fixture at the state Capitol for years, received a standing ovation today when he was awarded the Public Service Lifetime Achievement award from the Colorado Nonprofit Association at its annual awards gala. Gov. John Hickenlooper presented the award to Hanna, who is crediting with helping “shape the public service, nonprofit and political landscape…