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Colorado House wrestles with an evangelical moment
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State House Minority Whip Lori Saine said she had been working on the memorial resolution offered for Bill Armstrong during a joint session of the Legislature on and off for a year. Same with the eulogy she delivered – and she was clearly charged with deep feeling as she read it out to a chamber…
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Firestone tragedy unlikely to shake up Capitol oil and gas politics
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A lot has changed in the wake of the oil and gas industry-linked explosion at the end of April in Firestone that killed two. Anadarko Petroleum shut down 3,000 wells. Matt Lepore, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission director, spoke about conducting “an ongoing conversation about new safety measures” of one kind or another. Gov.…
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In home stretch, legislative session as bumpy as a Colorado roadway
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Kevin Grantham sat deep in his chair, his left foot, shod in a large cowboy boot, resting on his right knee, the Capitol press corps arrayed in front of him brought by text messages sent out near 10:00 p.m. the night before. It was Thursday morning, just two-and-a-half weeks ahead of the end of the…
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Trump era liberal strife still evident in Dem Boulder town halls; but what does it mean for Colorado?
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It was another weekend in the first months of the Trump administration and so another weekend of packed political town halls in heavily Democratic Boulder County, Colorado. “Resistance” energy in the region seems as fresh as it was the day after the inauguration, but it’s difficult to gauge to what degree Boulder might be a…
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The Hot Sheet – And so it begins, education $ will be “Rearranging chairs on Titanic,” Hick looks to legacy, Trump looms over the dome and … MORE!
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VOL. 02 NO. 004 | JANUARY 12, 2017 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2017 DENVER – Good morning, and happy Thursday – Colorado’s second day with state legislators inside the state Capitol working – yikes! A couple of things of note for you this a.m.: First, Gov. John Hickenlooper prepares this morning to take to the House of…
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Boom-time auto dealers will press lawmakers to streamline tax regime
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Tim Jackson, president and CEO of the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association, will be pushing lawmakers next year to simplify the patchwork tax regime in Colorado that he said places an enormous burden on businesses in the state. “Colorado has the most complicated structure,” he said Thursday at an event hosted by the free-enterprise and business-promotion…
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Millennial crowd mostly chomps cigars, disses candidates at Denver GOP debate watch party
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At a Republican presidential debate watch party held at Capitol Cigars on Tuesday, the crowd started out thin and skeptical and, even though the bourbon flowed copiously and the crowd grew over the course of the debate, the attitude toward the candidates never much improved. “The media would do better just giving us public service…
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Proposal to change how district maps are drawn met with sharp criticism
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A high-profile bipartisan group of former lawmakers and state officials are reworking and resubmitting a ballot initiative that would transform the process through which voting districts are drawn in Colorado. The news comes after the project was unveiled last month with a splash, drawing approval from newspaper editorial boards but sharp criticism on the left…
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Panel dismisses ethics complaint against Polis for gaming, fashion promotions
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The House Ethics Committee on Monday dismissed a complaint that U.S. Rep. Jared Polis last year used public resources to act as fleeting pitchman for a video game company and for a Boulder-based men’s clothing designer. “I’m glad the ethics committee promptly and unanimously dismissed this matter and found no violation,” Polis said in a…
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Liberty lovers at annual holiday party cheer founding principles, lament 2016 presidential politics
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The attendees at this year’s Leadership Program of the Rockies holiday party on Thursday at the Wellshire Event Center in Denver smiled and laughed and expounded readily on the philosophical and practical genius that launched the American republic. They also let out comic groans about the present state of national electoral politics generally and the…
