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Dave Williams, colleagues return with Senate bill to battle sanctuary politicians, policies
Republican lawmakers have revived and revamped controversial legislation targeting so-called sanctuary jurisdictions and the politicians who support the policies behind them, although the new bill would only subject elected officials to lawsuits, not criminal prosecution. State Rep. Dave Williams, R-Colorado Springs, vowed in February that he would return with a measure in the GOP-controlled Senate…
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Colorado budget proposal cuts youth surveys on drugs, sex
Colorado schoolchildren may not be asked about their drug use and sex habits in anonymous surveys anymore, under a bipartisan budget proposal moving through the Legislature. The budget draft introduced Monday cuts about $745,000 to end the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey. The youth-risk surveys are sent every other year to randomly selected middle and high…
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Linda Newell’s ‘Last Bill’ documentary depicts what government looks like from the inside
There were lights, more than a few cameras and plenty of action at the premiere of former state Sen. Linda Newell’s documentary film Saturday afternoon at a Littleton theater located in the heart of her old Senate district. There was also a massive, forbidding doorway to Skull Island lit by flickering tiki lights, and lots…
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Neville rides wave with ‘constitutional carry’ gun bill, fails to win over Dems
The floor vote in the state Senate on Tim Neville’s “constitutional carry” bill on Tuesday went as expected. His Senate Bill 116 passed with full Republican support, but Democrats took turns voicing opposition. The immediate future of the bill is all but carved in stone. It will pass in the Republican-controlled Senate and fail in…
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Lundberg: ‘Absolutely’ it would be ‘messier’ to do away with Joint Budget Committee
State Sen. Kevin Lundberg doesn’t sound very enchanted with plans House Republicans have recently floated to change the way the Legislature writes the state’s annual budget. The Berthoud Republican, a member of the powerful Joint Budget Committee, suggested in a recent interview with The Colorado Statesman that the six-member panel – three from each chamber…
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The Good Fight: Dan File and the Colorado Capitol Commission’s Bible studies
If Dan File’s Bible studies at the Colorado Capitol have one rule, it’s this: “We don’t discuss politics,” he says. It can be a tough rule to stick with, because nearly everyone else at the table lives and breathes politics, but File is nothing if not up to the task. “We try to keep that,”…
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House Republicans float possibility of revamping legislative budget process
House Republican leaders on Wednesday said the GOP caucus wants to “fundamentally change” the way the Legislature puts together the state’s annual budget, potentially by vastly diminishing the role of the powerful Joint Budget Committee and giving all the other committees more say. Cautioning that the caucus he leads isn’t planning to introduce a proposal…
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Larimer Commissioner Lew Gaiter throws hat in ring for Republican gubernatorial nod
Larimer County Commissioner Lew Gaiter joined the race for the Republican nomination for governor of Colorado this week, saying he wants to mend all manner of divisions – particularly between rural and urban dwellers – and to make sure the entire state is enjoying the economic recovery. “Our great country has been hit with a…
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Linda Newell set to premiere behind-the-scenes film about legislative process
You can take the lawmaker out of the Capitol, the old saying goes, but you can’t take the Capitol out of the lawmaker. Maybe that isn’t precisely how the old saying goes, but it describes former state Sen. Linda Newell’s path since the Littleton Democrat faced term limits last year. As her eight-year legislative career…