marianne goodland
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Ken Buck wins House passage of ditch bill for rural communities
A bill that will make it easier for irrigation and ditch companies to invest dollars without jeopardizing their non-profit status cleared the U.S. House Tuesday on a unanimous vote. U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Windsor, is the sponsor of the Water and Agriculture Tax Reform (WATER) Act of 2017. The bill would amend the Internal Revenue…
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Hickenlooper pleads for survival of land and water conservation fund
Gov. John Hickenlooper sent a plea Tuesday to Colorado’s congressional delegation, urging them to push for full funding of the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). The fund, which relies on federal oil and gas drilling lease revenues from offshore sites rather than tax revenue, was envisioned by President Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s…
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Citizen legislature vs. child support? Lawmaker’s court hearing points to problems
Lawmakers elected to the Colorado General Assembly are expected to be part-time. It’s why they’re paid so little ($30,000 a year, currently), and the session only lasts for 120 days per year. The rest of the year, they’re expected to handle legislative business on a part-time basis. Few lawmakers, if any, claim they can live…
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Stapleton to ag community: I’ll stand up for you with Trump administration
State treasurer and Republican gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton hosted a roundtable Thursday for representatives of the agriculture community on trade and tariffs – a session that was closed to reporters. The forum, hosted at the Colorado Farm Bureau’s headquarters in Centennial, included Stapleton and three Republican members of the General Assembly: his lieutenant governor running…
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Gov. Hickenlooper signs order to tackle orphan oil & gas wells
Gov. John Hickenlooper Wednesday signed an executive order that directs the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) to ramp up its efforts to clean up some of the state’s more than 530 “orphan” oil and gas wells around the state. Hickenlooper said Wednesday that the problem of orphan wells – abandoned wells that have been…
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State lawmaker under fire for comparing women marchers to Hitler’s ‘brownshirts’
Republican state Rep. Tim Leonard of Evergreen is under fire for a Facebook post in which he compared women marchers to Hitler’s brownshirts, the Nazi militia members who began the campaigns of violence against Jews in pre-World War II Germany. Leonard has two Facebook pages, one for his personal life and another for his political…
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Bennet, agriculture leaders say Trump’s trade moves hurt Colorado
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet took aim Friday at the Trump administration’s trade tactics, saying the recent tariffs imposed by the administration on trading partners all over the world are hurting Colorado agriculture. “What Colorado agriculture needs is trade, not a trade war,” the Colorado Democrat told reporters Friday. Bennet spoke to about 30 farmers and…
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Capitol M: Week ending July 13, 2018
Although the General Assembly is not in session, there’s enough going on outside of the legislative races, and inside it, too, to take another walk among the Mmmmmms. Good luck…to Democratic Sen. Dominick Moreno of Commerce City, who was recently appointed to the Adams 14 school board. Now Capitol M did a little checking on…
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Campaign finance violation cited against CU regent candidate
Updated with comments from candidate Lesley Smith. Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ office – now in charge of reviewing campaign finance complaints under a judge’s order – announced Thursday that the campaign of Lesley Smith, a Democratic candidate for an at-large seat on the University of Colorado Board of Regents, violated state campaign finance…
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Education-tax backers are 1st to file petition signatures for Nov. ballot
Proponents of an education ballot measure became the first of many who will turn in petition signatures for proposals they hope will make it to Colorado’s November ballot. Backers of the “Great Schools, Thriving Communities” ballot measure turned in what they said were between 170,000 and 180,000 signatures in 61 boxes just after 2 p.m.…