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2018 Colo. legislature: What’s next on the issues that drove the session?
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The biggest issues of the 120-day Colorado legislative session are far from done just because they’ve been voted on. Transportation is still a snowball rolling downhill toward November, and the dollars that will eventually be steered into roads, bridges and transit are hardly settled. Lawmakers created a $32 billion solution to the state’s public-pension plan,…
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2018 Colo. legislature: Key players size up the game
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Colorado Politics reached out to leading organizations that keep an eye on the Capitol for their analyses of the four-month session that ended May 9. Here’s a roundup. Colorado Education AssociationThe state teachers’ union closely followed changes to the public employees’ pension plan, which passed on the last night of the session. The $32 billion…
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Poll results convince Democrat Tillemann to stay in 6th CD race
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Democrat Levi Tillemann on Monday said he plans to stay in the 6th Congressional District primary after a private poll his campaign commissioned shows he’s leading Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman by 5 points – better than the statistical tie the same poll found between Jason Crow, the other Democrat in the race, and the five-term…
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2018 Colo. legislature: Winners and losers from the session
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Winners House Assistant Majority Leader Alec Garnett of Denver and Assistant Minority Leader Cole Wist of Centennial: For the second year in a row, these two lawmakers on opposite sides of the aisle took on some of the toughest issues in the session. This year, that included the year’s most controversial bill – the “red flag”…
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Mother’s Day reminds Colo. politicos who made them special
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With Mother’s Day brightening the springtime, Colorado Politics reached out to some of the state’s best-known politicos to find out what lessons on life they learned from the woman who gave them life. We begin with Gov. John Hickenlooper’s essay about his own mother, the woman he often references in talks with reporters about the…
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Bennet checks in on bucks for cleanup near Peterson Air Force Base
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When Sen. Michael Bennet was home from Washington last week, he checked in with water districts in El Paso County that will benefit from $44 million he got into the federal defense budget to clean up water contamination near military bases and another $10 million to study the related health effects, his office tells Colorado…
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Independent slate of legislative candidates outraises Democrats, Republicans combined
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The unaffiliated candidates for Colorado’s legislature endorsed by Unite Colorado and running under the national organization’s banner collected more in campaign contributions than their Republican and Democratic opponents combined during the most recent fundraising period – in most cases by wide margins. Between Jan. 1 and May 2, the five independent House and Senate candidates…
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2018 Colo. legislature: What got done (and not done) under the dome?
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Here’s a look at the bills and issues Colorado legislators did or didn’t accomplish in the 2018 General Assembly session that wrapped up Wednesday: What got done Crackdown on harassmentState Rep. Steve Lebsock became only the second lawmaker in Colorado history to be voted out of the General Assembly on March 2, and Sen. Randy…
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Gavel falls on Colo. legislature’s brawls and breakthroughs
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Denver Zoo brought birds and reptiles to show off at the Colorado Capitol Wednesday – fitting for the last day of a four-month legislative session that was at times a wild kingdom of laws, policies and politics, and at others a close encounter with the #MeToo era. Lawmakers finally wrapped up their work in the…
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Anti-squatters bill on its way to Hickenlooper
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A Colorado legislative measure born out of frustration with the process of evicting those who illegally take over someone’s home is on its way to Gov. John Hickenlooper for signing. Senate Bill 15 would set up a faster process for getting “squatters” – people who move into a home without homeowner authorization – evicted from…
