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STATESMAN ARCHIVES | Farber demonstrates second-to-none mastery of politics
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Editor’s note: This story is a reprint of a profile of Steve Farber by reporter Ernest Luning that ran in The Colorado Statesman (the precursor to Colorado Politics) in December 2015. A television screen filled with images of protesters and vigils and presidential candidates competes for space on one of Denver attorney Steve Farber’s office…
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201 new Colo. laws and rules take effect
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The biggest batch of new laws from the last legislative session hit the Colorado books Wednesday. The 201 new rules and regulations took effect 90 days after the end of the 120-day General Assembly. The laws run the gamut from marijuana and hemp to rural economic development and deregulation of taxis, as well as removing…
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Updated: Legislative committees finalized
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With the election now behind them, the names and faces of this year’s Colorado Senate and House committees have come into focus. Democratic and Republican Party leaders in the Senate and House have selected chairs, vice-chairs and members of committees for the 71st General Assembly. Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy: Chairman Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling); Vice…
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House GOP leadership chosen, Rankin nearly quits JBC
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Saying he wanted signs of support from his Republican colleagues before he agreed to continue serving on the Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee, that’s what state Rep. Bob Rankin of Carbondale received during a party leadership caucus at the state Capitol Thursday, Nov. 10. Rankin, who has been the House GOP member on the JBC for…
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Clash building over plan to de-Bruce education
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An education group, with the support so far of Front Range Democratic lawmakers, is planning to ask voters this November to allow the state to keep more tax money for public schools. It’s a proposal that anti-tax groups would vigorously oppose. Lisa Weil, executive director of Great Education Colorado, said her group is still in…
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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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Bipartisan ‘odd couple’ pushes for greater access to public records
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Democratic lawmakers have teamed with the libertarian Independence Institute to craft 2016 legislation that would lower a major hurdle for Coloradans seeking access to public records. In an unusual pairing of players from opposite sides of the political spectrum, state Sen. John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, and state Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, are working with liberty-politics…
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Rep. Nordberg, GOP lawmakers call for state investigation into local Planned Parenthood affiliates
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Thirty Colorado Republican legislators called Wednesday for a state investigation into Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains and whether it is involved in “the sale and transfer of fetal body parts.” “A civilized society cannot allow unethical and illegal medical practices such as the harvesting of aborted human organs and babies for monetary gain. I…
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Colorado at legal epicenter for business issues
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Three down and one to go.It was probably just coincidental, but in the past two years, Colorado has become a focal point of legal decisions on business issues with national implications. Three of the four cases giving our state this — from businesses’ perspectives — unwanted attention have been settled, with the biggest case still…
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Littwin: Cory Gardner and the GOP adopt abortion politics and a government-shutdown showdown … again
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OK, it wasn’t like we weren’t warned. But here was the U.S. Senate not only voting on whether to defund Planned Parenthood, but promising that this is just the beginning of a long fight, maybe one that would last even longer than Congress’s summer recess. As expected, Democrats successfully filibustered the bill, but the defunding…
