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Amid uncertainty over Garcia vote, Colorado Senate puts off final action on ‘red flag’ gun bill
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The Colorado Senate has put off what was expected to be Monday’s biggest vote of the day: Final action on the “red flag” gun bill. And that leaves unresolved — at least for one more day — how the Senate’s president, Democrat Leroy Garcia of Pueblo, will vote on the controversial measure. House Bill 1177…
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Audit: Millions in Medicaid benefits paid for potentially ineligible Colorado patients
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The Colorado Department of Heath Care Policy and Financing may have paid millions of dollars in claims for ineligible Medicaid patients last year due to staff errors, state Auditor Dianne Ray told the Legislative Audit Committee on Feb. 26. A recent state audit of accounting practices of state agencies uncovered a half-dozen “material weaknesses,” the…
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As Colorado Senate takes up controversial sex-education bill, amendments may be coming
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The Colorado state Senate Health and Human Services Committee will move into the eye of the storm Thursday afternoon with a hearing on changes to the state’s comprehensive sex education curriculum that has generated hours of hearings and hundreds of witnesses who want it to go by the wayside. And there may be a surprise…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH | Colorado candidates notch support as primary looms
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Politicians and organizations are bestowing last-minute endorsements as candidate scramble to motivate voters in the days before the June 26 primary. Here are some of the Colorado candidate endorsements announced in recent days, including some going to candidates who aren’t in contested primaries and have already won their party’s nomination: ? Former U.S. Sen. Tim…
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ENDORSEMENT WATCH: Teachers union backs Neguse in 2nd CD Dem primary
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There isn’t much time left for politicians and organizations to announce their endorsements in Colorado’s primary races. Ballots will be arriving in mailboxes within a few weeks and voters will be soon be voting, so expect a flood of announcements by early June from the big enchiladas who want to help their favored candidates win.…
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Rural teacher shortage bill battles Colo. Senate snag
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A compromise hammered out Monday morning between Colorado’s House and Senate means a bill – intended to help resolve rural teacher shortages – that almost made it to the governor’s desk has another shot. Senate Bill 85 won final approval for House amendments on a 31-3 vote on April 27. But Senate President Pro Tem Jerry Sonnenberg…
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Bill to expand Colorado rural teacher program is in trouble
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Rural school advocates and Democratic lawmakers Monday are hopping mad about a last-minute procedural move that’s keeping a bill intended to address rural educator shortages and that the Senate approved on Friday from going to the governor’s desk. Senate Bill 85 would expand a rural teacher program set up through 2016 legislation that was sponsored…
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DFER: Why Colo. Democrats threw it out of their state assembly
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On April 14, in what was the most dramatic moment in the Democratic Party’s state assembly, party activists won delegates’ assembly approval for a demand that the Colorado chapter of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) stop using the word “Democrat” in its name. The move exposed a deepening schism in the party over school choice…
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It just got easier to go to college while still in Colorado’s high schools
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DENVER – More students will be able to get a head start on college – and be able to cut down its cost – because Gov. John Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1052 into last week. Students already can rack up college and technical education credits before they finish high school. However, the community college in their…
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Transportation bill stalls, as Colorado Senate Democrats filibuster
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Colorado Senate Democrats continued their attempts to amend a bill that would tie up $300 million a year from the state budget for transportation. Republicans played defense and ultimately passed Senate Bill 1 postponed to a third day of debate next Tuesday. If Republicans pass the legislation on a recorded vote with their one-seat majority,…
