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Denver City Council to consider up to $289 million in bond spending
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The Denver City Council will consider approving a sextet of construction contracts worth $30 million each ahead of their Tuesday meeting. Councilmembers are also scheduled to consider several other contracts and bond spending totaling close to $300 million. The Council did not meet on Monday, it’s normal meeting time, as the city government closed in…
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Denver City Council to consider up to $289 million in bond spending
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The Denver City Council will consider approving a sextet of construction contracts worth $30 million each ahead of their Tuesday meeting. Councilmembers are also scheduled to consider several other contracts and bond spending totaling close to $300 million. The Council did not meet on Monday, it’s normal meeting time, as the city government closed in…
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A LOOK BACK | Congressional candidate calls government growth ‘unavoidable’
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Fifty-Five Years Ago This Week: Speaking to concerned farmers, ranchers and campaign supporters in the City of Limon, Conrad McBride, Democratic candidate for Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District, said that there was “an obvious price squeeze between static farm prices and inflated land prices today,” and added that – short of perfect cooperation – would require…
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Secretary of State says lobbyist contribution to AG candidate may violate campaign finance law
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An initial review by the Secretary of State’s elections division determined that a campaign contribution from lobbyist Michael Fields to Attorney General Republican candidate John Kellner may have violated state campaign finance laws. However, the initial review also gave Kellner an opportunity to “cure,” or fix the violation, which Kellner has already done by returning…
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Judge dismisses redistricting lobbying complaint against Republican operatives
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Months after the state finished its congressional and legislative redistricting, a complaint alleging illegal redistricting lobbying by a group of local Republican operatives has been dismissed, with an administrative law judge concluding the complaint did not have merit. The complaint alleged that members of Colorado Neighborhood Coalition lobbied redistricting commissioners without proper disclosure. One employee…
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‘Be Like Pat’: Colorado House and Senate pay tribute to Pat Teegarden
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Hearts inside and outside the state Capitol are broken this week over the death of Pat Teegarden, legislative liaison for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, who died Feb. 5 after a brief illness. Both the state House and Senate paid tribute to Teegarden Monday, with a moment of silence in the House and…
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Q&A with Maria Garcia Berry | Cuban immigrant rewrites Colorado history
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In Colorado politics, Maria Garcia Berry gets the job done, whatever the job might be. Most often, they’re the biggest jobs in town. Between her and husband, Chuck Berry, a former 14-year state legislator and speaker of the House, the Berry name is written in the footnotes of Colorado history over the last four decades.…
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Redistricting testimony triggers high-profile lobbying disclosure, questions over reporting requirements
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Colorado’s independent redistricting commissioners are in the middle of a statewide tour, listening as members of the public give their opinions on what they want the next decade’s congressional and legislative maps to look like. But that isn’t entirely what’s been going on. In at least one example at the commissions’ public input hearing Tuesday…
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Denver City Council newcomers oppose oversight screener
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The Denver City Council on Monday voted to approve the appointment of a lobbyist who made campaign contributions to several council members to vet candidates to a board that oversees allegations of police misconduct. The council voted 9-3 to appoint Roger Sherman as their representative on a three-member nominating committee that screens application for the…
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Democrats for Ed Reform’s Colo. leader didn’t lobby illegally, secretary of state says, but …
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The office of Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams has cleared the executive director of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) on a complaint accusing her of lobbying lawmakers at the state Capitol without being a registered lobbyist. But in a May 16 letter to DFER Executive Director’s Jen Walmer and former research director Jack Teter,…
