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Supreme Court’s sports-betting decision’s at the intersection of "sin and revenue"
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Paul Klee is a sports columnist for The Gazette, parent newspaper of Colorado Politics. The NFL just cured its TV ratings illness, Las Vegas just inched closer to hosting a Super Bowl, and it just became tougher than any other time in American history to rig a sporting event. Pretty nice li’l day, don’t you think?…
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Sports betting in Colo.? It could be a long ways off (9News video)
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Even though the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out federal laws blocking sports betting in most states, don’t expect to be placing bets on the Denver Broncos or another favorite sports team anytime soon in Colorado. That’s because gambling and gaming in Colorado are tightly controlled by a 1992 state constitutional amendment, and any…
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Q&A w/Tony Milo | ‘Voters are fed up with sitting in traffic’
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Think of Tony Milo as Colorado’s Lorax. Only, instead of speaking for the trees like the fabled Dr. Seuss character, Milo advocates relentlessly for the state’s infrastructure. As executive director of the Colorado Contractors Association, he is the point man in the perennial push for more funding to highways, bridges and other wide-ranging public works.…
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Tillemann says he’ll withdraw from primary if poll shows only Crow can beat Coffman
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Democratic congressional candidate Levi Tilleman said Friday he’ll drop out of the 6th District primary if a poll he has commissioned shows that primary rival Jason Crow is the only Democrat who can unseat five-term Republican Mike Coffman in the suburban swing seat. Tillemann told Colorado Politics he expects to have the results in hand…
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Mitt Romney: Can the insider play the insurgent in Senate race?
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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah – Mitt Romney threatening to shut down the government is probably not what Republicans in Washington were expecting from one of the leading establishment figures of their party over the past two decades. The 71-year-old, former presidential nominee is vowing to do whatever it takes to end profligate federal spending and…
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What Colorado lawmakers did for and to schools in 2018
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The Colorado General Assembly’s 2018 session ended with a down-to-the-wire compromise on pension reform that left some teachers feeling bruised, but Gov. John Hickenlooper said there should be no confusion. In a world of competing priorities, education came out ahead. The 2018-19 budget puts more into K-12 education than the state has spent in years,…
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Colo. legislative leaders size up accomplishments, stress
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The morning after the four-month Colorado legislative session adjourned, Democratic and Republican leaders lauded their achievements Thursday, noting the stress brought on by controversy and conflict. The General Assembly put billions into transportation, shored up the public employees’ pension plan, reauthorized the state’s civil rights watchdog agency and tweaked how and where beer is sold.…
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Lawmakers craft a deal on beer sales at grocery stores
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Colorado legislators toasted a compromise over beer sales late Wednesday, passing a bill on the final night of their 2018 legislative session. Grocery and convenience stores, which have only been able to sell low-strength beer for decades, will be allowed to sell full-strength beer starting next January under a 2016 law. Senate Bill 243, adopted…
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Colo. lawmakers find common ground on filling state pension’s $32 billion hole
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Colorado lawmakers cured – they hope – the state employees’ ailing pension plan in the waning minutes of the 120-day Colorado legislative session Wednesday night, a remedy that could help keep Colorado’s credit rating from taking a hit. House and Senate negotiators reached a deal that was approved by both chambers. That should be a relief…
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Seeking DACA debate, Rep. Coffman backs ‘queen of the hill’ maneuver
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Colorado’s U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman will sign a “discharge petition” to force four immigration bills to the floor of the House for a vote via a parliamentary maneuver known as “queen of the hill,” his office announced Wednesday. “These immigration bills deserve a vote, and Republican leadership has been wrong in holding them up,” Coffman said…