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Colorado senators optimistic for 2017 legislative session, but prepared for Washington-induced spiral
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In Colorado’s upper legislative chamber everything is different and everything has stayed the same. For years, Democrats have held the reins of power at the Capitol, and Republicans have exerted what influence they could by acting as the loyal opposition – mainly by blocking bills and offering alternative policy narratives. Most observers expect that arrangement…
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Highlight reel: Colorado’s wild and woolly 2016 election season
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Symbolic of the divisiveness of our politics, many Coloradans will look back at the 2016 election with violent contempt, reflecting on a political year that saw the rise of President-elect Donald Trump, while others will reminisce with sublime glee over a cycle where voters bucked the political establishment. In a year full of tectonic shifts…
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? Transportation funding plan dies on unusual partisan vote
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On a strictly party line vote, the Colorado Legislative Council Committee killed a proposed bill that called for voter approval of $3.5 billion in bonds and the transfer of state sales tax revenue to help fund transportation projects across the state. But to the layperson, the opposite of what would be expected to traditionally occur…
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Legislators not surprised aid in dying on ballot
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In February 2016, state Rep. Lois Court, a sponsor of legislation that would have allowed terminally ill Coloradans to obtain a prescription drug to bring about their deaths, told her fellow lawmakers, “Make no mistake, the voice of the people of this state will be held. You will hear from your constituents one way or the other.” She…
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Colorado public affairs firm Sewald Hanfling expands team, adds strategic communications
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With the hiring of a former White House staffer and other new employees this spring, Colorado lobbying firm Sewald Hanfling more than doubled the size of its team and added public relations work to its offerings. The firm hired Gordon Bronson, who’s worked on several Democratic campaigns and spent a year working on presidential appointments…
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The Hot Sheet, August 1, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 142 | AUGUST 01, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS Editor and Publisher Jared Wright DENVER – Good morning and welcome back to real life … if you ever, in fact, left it for the weekend. Some of us don’t take such leisures. Today is Colorado Day, the anniversary of President…
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#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups
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A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…
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Democratic Party hosts must-watch primary contest in Senate District 31
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With Sen. Pat Steadman reaching term limits in the state Senate after last legislative session, Senate District 31 is set to elect a new face for the first time in 8 years this November. Given the strong hold the Democrats have over SD 31, it’s worth paying attention to the three Democrats vying to replace Steadman in the…
