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The Hot Sheet – Boulder fearful of Trump, Gov. race ‘free-for-all,’ CO AG pushes back against openness?, a new voice for immigration reform and … MORE!

Dec 5, 2016

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Colorado Politics

VOL. 01 NO. 198 | DECEMBER 5, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 DENVER – Start of a new week! We can’t decide whether to hum “Monday, Monday” or “Let it Snow.” Thoughts? Discuss … For political junkies, you could attend a Christmas party this weekend without discussions (speculation) shifting to the 2018 governor’s race or…
Contests for legislative leadership taking shape in tumultuous election year

Oct 27, 2016

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Ernest Luning

There’s more than one election looming within the next couple of weeks in Colorado. Two days after voters finish casting ballots on Nov. 8, state lawmakers – including what could be more than a dozen newly elected legislators – are scheduled to gather at the Capitol to elect leadership positions for the 71st General Assembly.…
Colorado GOP legislators get behind Trump

Oct 13, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

With many Republican leaders – including some in Colorado – recently withdrawing their support or renouncing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump after the release of a 2005 video recording of Trump bragging of what some consider sexual abuse of women, the Trump campaign in Colorado on Thursday, Oct. 13, touted newfound support of several Colorado…
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…
First draft: House debate on state budget ‘long bill’

Mar 31, 2016

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John Tomasic

House Dems with Republican support pass state budget The House passed the state budget Friday morning. The $27 billion spending bill written over the course of months by the bipartisan Joint Budget Committee survived House debate mostly intact. House Bill 1405 passed on a 39-26 vote. Five Republicans — Reps. J. Paul Brown, R-Ignacio, Don…
Sonnenberg OK with lack of attention at Capitol to agriculture, but pushing two bills he says really matter

Mar 11, 2016

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Ramsey Scott

Lawmakers haven’t introduced many agricultural bills this legislative session, but that doesn’t mean farmers and ranchers haven’t been paying close attention — or that they’re upset about the lack of acknowledgement. Jerry Sonnenberg, R-Sterling, chair of the Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy Committee, said Colorado’s farmers and ranchers work better when they’re left to…
The Hot Sheet, February 23, 2016

Feb 23, 2016

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Jared Wright

By TCS Publisher and Editor in Chief Jared Wright _@JaredWright_ Tuesday, February 23, 2016 DENVER – Good morning, and welcome to The Hot Sheet, Colorado’s premier daily political newsletter. We are now exactly one week away from Super Tuesday (what?! you say … yep, February – the short-straw month, remember?), and today the Republican presidential candidates will square off in…