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Senate sends transportation funding bill to the governor
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None of the Republicans in the state House of Representatives supported it earlier in the day, but Senate Republicans collected a unanimous vote Tuesday night to send a bill to the governor that will eventually put almost $3 billion into the state’s beleaguered transportation system. Senate Bill 1 puts $495 million into roads, bridges and…
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Colo. governor’s race: Who has raised and spent the most so far?
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As Colorado’s Republican and Democratic primaries for governor hit the final stretch, campaign finance reports filed Monday detail a big-ticket race that continues to set records, with two self-funding candidates accounting for roughly $9 million of the nearly $15 million spent so far. The latest totals confirm predictions that the race to succeed term-limited Democrat…
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‘Red flag’ gun bill meets its expected demise in Colo. Senate
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A Colorado state Senate committee late Monday put an expected end to a “red flag” bill that would have allowed law enforcement or family members to legally remove firearms from mentally ill people deemed a threat to themselves or others. The Republican-led Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted down the “Zackari Parrish III…
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Colo. Senate advances bill to tackle same issue as House red flag measure: mental health
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The Republican-controlled Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee later Monday is expected to hear the “red flag” proposal on guns, House Bill 1436, and kill the measure, likely along party lines. At the same time, Republicans are pushing for a bill to address the mental health issue that is also embedded in the red flag…
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INSIGHTS: As the legislature gets generous, teachers chant, ‘We want more’
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When the purse is open, that’s the time to ask, or demand, a larger share. And that’s what public school teachers have been doing for weeks – well, years – at the Colorado Capitol. But the protests have come at a curious time. The legislature’s past two sessions have been very good for K-12 education…
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Senate Democrats call Baumgardner punishment a slap on the wrist
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Senate President Kevin Grantham of Cañon City has removed Republican Sen. Randy Baumgardner from four committees as punishment for allegations that he sexually harassed a nonpartisan Senate staffer and created a hostile work environment for other Senate staffers. But a statement by Grantham that implied he had the cooperation of Senate Minority Leader Leroy Garcia…
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Lamborn stays on primary ballot after courts deny last-ditch appeals
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After a pair of lawsuits finally finished working their way through state and federal courts on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn has found himself back where he was a month ago: On the June primary ballot, running for a seventh term. Those lawsuits yielded a mountain of documents, a blizzard of insults, as many close…
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U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue on trade, tariffs and Trump
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For almost three decades, Republican and Democratic administrations alike pursued free trade deals, arguing that expanding access to foreign markets is always to the benefit of the overall U.S. economy. That bipartisan consensus was shattered with the arrival of the Trump administration. President Donald Trump believes those deals allowed the nation’s trading partners to hollow…
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Colo. sues Trump administration over census citizenship question
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Colorado is suing the Trump administration to keep census takers in 2020 from asking about citizenship. Gov. John Hickenlooper said Tuesday afternoon that Colorado will join the lawsuit by a coalition of 18 states and Washington, D.C., as well as nine cities, four counties and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. “We have a responsibility to…
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Republicans chastise leader Cole Wist for co-sponsoring gun bill
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Some House Republicans chastised Colorado state Rep. Cole Wist in a caucus meeting late Monday night over his sponsorship of bipartisan legislation to keep guns away from people considered an extreme risk, Colorado Politics has learned. House members debated bills until about 11:30 p.m., then Republicans huddled. Second Amendment advocates were unhappy with Wist. A…