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Colorado House advances transportation compromise
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The Colorado House of Representatives on Monday evening gave preliminary approval to a transportation compromise worked out by Democratic and Republican leaders in the legislature. Senate Bill 1 calls for an additional $50 million annually in transportation spending, as well as money from last year’s Senate Bill 267 to borrow $2.35 billion. The bill depends on $495…
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Colorado redistricting resolutions head to the ballot
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Two resolutions that could help create commissions to draw political boundaries for the Colorado legislature and the state’s members of Congress are headed to the ballot. Monday morning the state House of Representatives passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, which refer respective ballot questions on legislative and congressional redistricting to the November…
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Fix Our Damn Roads could ask Colo. voters to force lawmakers to use existing taxes
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Fix Our Damn Roads, a ballot initiative to force Colorado lawmakers to spend existing taxes on transportation instead of a new one, will soon receive signatures from like-minded voters. The effort is counter to a proposal being considered by a coalition led by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, which could ask voters to approve…
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Political gamesmanship keeps ‘red flag’ gun bill from demise
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The Colorado House of Representatives on Friday evening passed, largely along party lines, the “Zackari Parrish III Violence Protection Act,” aka the red flag bill, which would allow law enforcement or family members to seek a court order that would allow law enforcement to temporarily remove firearms from a person deemed a threat to themselves…
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Senate Democrats call Baumgardner punishment a slap on the wrist
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Senate President Kevin Grantham of Cañon City has removed Republican Sen. Randy Baumgardner from four committees as punishment for allegations that he sexually harassed a nonpartisan Senate staffer and created a hostile work environment for other Senate staffers. But a statement by Grantham that implied he had the cooperation of Senate Minority Leader Leroy Garcia…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH: Kamala Harris throws support behind Joe Neguse
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With just five weeks remaining until Colorado voters start to receive primary ballots in the mail, candidate endorsements are falling as thick as crabapple blossoms on a blustery spring day. Here are some of the endorsements that have been announced over the past week: U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, the California Democrat high on lists of…
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Redistricting measures pass Senate unanimously, map to the ballot seems clear
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The Colorado Senate on Monday gave unanimous approval to two resolutions that would ask voters to redraw legislative and congressional boundaries to put competitiveness over partisan advantage in future political races. The issue now goes to the House to start over, but if Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 on congressional maps and Senate Concurrent Resolution 5…
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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…
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Senate Dems cry foul over latest sexual harassment report on Baumgardner
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“We’ve been fooled!” Senate Democrats are reacting angrily to the latest report on allegations of sexual harassment against Colorado state Sen. Randy Baumgardner. They vented their anger both at the Hot Sulphur Springs Republican, demanding he resign, and at Senate leadership, who they claim refuse to take action regarding the allegations. An independent investigation into…
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New details from 2nd report on alleged Baumgardner harassment
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The second investigation into allegations against Colorado state Sen. Randy Baumgardner found he “engages in an unsettling pattern of inappropriate and offensive behavior toward women,” including sexual harassment toward a woman half his age that she called “creepy,” and created a hostile work environment for a non-partisan female Senate employee and other Senate staffers. KUNC’s…
