mark scheffel
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Looking for path forward, 9-1-1 task force dives into sea of options
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Colorado’s 9-1-1 task force convened last Wednesday at the Capitol to take its first official steps in a larger effort to update policy guiding the state’s emergency phone service, which is experiencing increasing outages as technology, business models and infrastructure struggle to keep pace in the digital era. As fast became clear at the meeting,…
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Photo Gallery: Colorado Remembers 9/11 event
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A photo gallery compiled by Statesman photographers from the Colorado Remembers 9/11 event that took place Sunday, September 11, 2016, in downtown Denver’s Civic Center Park to mark the 15th Anniversary of 9/11.
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Legislative task force set to consider struggling 9-1-1 service
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In Colorado, 9-1-1 emergency service is still inconsistently moving into the digital age, and suffering sporadic outages as a result. Outages have been rising since 2010 and, this year, Colorado is on track to see more outages than were recorded in any of the past six years, according to data compiled by the Colorado Public…
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Noonan: Surprise! State House and Senate leadership agreed with each other in 2016
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Four of the six legislative leaders are retiring: Democratic House Speaker Dickie Lee Hullinghorst, Senate President Bill Cadman, Senate Majority Leader Mark Scheffel and House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso. House Majority Leader Crisanta Duran and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, both from Denver, will return. With four members of leadership waving goodbye, perhaps it’s not…
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The Hot Sheet, July 15, 2016
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VOL. 01 NO. 131 | JULY 15, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016By TCS CEO and Editor-In-Chief Jared Wright DENVER – Another day, another somber moment in human history, another instance of horrible violence in the world. Thoughts and prayers for all of those in Nice, France, following the insidious terrorist attack there. Read on for…
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Noonan: Republican senators lay off contentious bills to hold the chamber
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Nine state senators are up for re-election and nine Senate seats are up for grabs in November. Seven of those seats have fewer than 9,000 votes separating the parties in registration numbers, while two seats have under 800. The Senate is 18-17 to the Republicans, all of which explains why the Senate was a more…
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Western Conservative Summit: An offstage scrapbook (photos)
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Colorado Christian University’s Centennial Institute hosted the seventh-annual Western Conservative Summit this weekend at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver and drew national conservative figures to address the event’s approximate 4,000 attendees, including presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, former Alaska Gov. Sara Palin, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, RedState founder Christian conservative pundit Erick…
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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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Scheffel: Session showcased clear divide on economic issues
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It is often overlooked that much of what the General Assembly can do in any given session, from the annual budget on down, directly depends on the strength and vitality of Colorado’s private sector economy. The state’s economy is the team of horses that pulls everything else along, including government. Virtually every dollar spent at…
