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Q&A with Rep. Alec Garnett | Speaker of the House reflects on his time in the legislature

Jan 10, 2022

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Marianne Goodland

At 38, Speaker of the House Alec Garnett, D-Denver, is in his last of eight years in the Colorado House and among the youngest to serve in that position. Garnett is the third Democrat from the Capitol Hill House District to wield the speaker’s gavel. He follows former speakers Mark Ferrandino, the youngest to ever…
Toda puts a -30- on a career in journalism and politics

Jul 5, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

It was fitting that the way most of the Capitol press corps learned of the departure of House Democratic spokesman Dean Toda was by press release – one he penned himself. “Dean Toda hangs up his spikes today,” he wrote. The sage of the statehouse is retiring after seven sessions. A former editor at the…
House committee amends pension bill to address $32B shortfall

Apr 17, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

Democrats made big changes to a bill to fill a $32 billion hole in the state’s pension plan for public employees Monday in a partisan fight that’s likely to play out more before the session adjourns in three weeks. Senate Bill 200 passed the House Finance Committee 10-3 Monday evening after more than four hours…
Lines drawn over ballot measures to determine how Colorado draws its legislative, congressional lines

Jan 3, 2018

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Ernest Luning

The battle is heating up over how Colorado draws its legislative and congressional boundaries. After failing to knock out a pair of proposed redistricting and reapportionment ballot measures in court, a rough coalition of mostly liberal and good-government groups filed competing ballot measures in late December and is vowing to take the choice before voters…
Democratic secretary of state candidate Jena Griswold announces slate of endorsements

Sep 25, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Jena Griswold, one of several Democrats running for secretary of state in next year’s election, unveiled a list of more than a dozen endorsements from current and former Democratic officials Monday. State Sens. Mike Merrifield, John Kefalas, Matt Jones and Rachel Zenzinger and state Rep. James Coleman added their names to a roster of Griswold…
Colorado lawmakers Leslie Herod, Dominick Moreno start fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School

Jul 11, 2017

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Ernest Luning

State Rep. Leslie Herod of Denver and state Sen. Dominick Moreno of Commerce City, both Democrats, started a three-week executive leadership program for LGBTQ officials on Monday at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The David Bohnett Leaders Fellowship, sponsored by the foundation of the same name and the Victory Institute, is awarded annually…
Stapleton 5-party funding to allow new school, fire station, homes

Mar 29, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

A five-party funding arrangement is to be considered by Denver City Council that would eventually allow some 2,800 new homes to be built on the former Stapleton International Airport property, which was decommissioned in the mid-1990s. The Stapleton “Five Parties” (City and County of Denver, Denver Urban Renewal Authority, Denver Public Schools, Forest City and…
Former lawmakers land county party positions at reorganization meetings

Feb 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Three former legislators won election to county party offices on Saturday as state Democrats and Republicans conduct their biennial reorganization meetings. Denver Democrats elected former state Rep. Mike Cerbo, D-Denver, to a two-year term as the county party’s chairman, Adams County Republicans tapped former state Rep. JoAnn Windholz, R-Commerce City, as vice chair, and El…
Duran hits ground running as House speaker

Jan 11, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

Even before she took the oath of office, state Rep. Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, readily answered to the title of Speaker of the House. As roll call was taken Wednesday, Jan. 11, the first day of the 71st General Assembly, the clerk asked if the speaker was present and both state Rep. Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Gunbarrel –…