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ICYMI: a checklist of legislative highlights by Colorado Capitol Watch
For your convenience, bill-tracker Colorado Capitol Watch offered a quick-take recap earlier this week of the top issues the legislature had to grapple with, and how it resolved them. Or didn’t, as the case may be. The review by veteran Capitol correspondent and sage Todd Engdahl covers all the basics — hospital provider fee, energy policy,…
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Colorado’s small biz advocate issues its legislative report card…
…and the 2017 session’s grade is: B- That’s the assessment of the National Federation of Independent Business in Colorado and its longtime state director, Tony Gagliardi. NFIB, which bills itself as the state’s largest and leading small-business association, is a pit bull in standing up for Colorado mom ‘n’ pops. It usually leans right but isn’t shy about challenging others in the…
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Colorado bill would make law enforcement account for what it takes
One of the more controversial tools that law enforcement agencies have acquired in the era of the war on drugs — seizing cash and property they believe to be associated with a crime — will have to better account for itself under bipartisan legislation now on its way to Gov. John Hickenlooper for his signature. House…
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Trump graffiti: Should Denver bill the Democratic Party or the GOP?
Just as you were beginning to fear politics was, once again, getting way too serious, along comes a creative smarty-pants like Denverite to put things back into perspective. To wit, it asks the right question: How much does it cost to remove all that Donald Trump graffiti from Denver’s public spaces and places? Denverite’s Megan Arellano comes…
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You want a look at those records, Councilman? That’ll be $500
When even an elected city council member — a former city attorney, no less — has trouble laying his hands on public documents he has requested from his own staff, it raises questions: About whether the staffers are in compliance with state public records laws; about whether the city needs to tweak its own rules on the…
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Now, it’s GOP’s turn to get stiff-armed in a bid to legislate gas-line safety
Having just turned back a Democratic attempt in the state House to make oil and gas producers map and disclose their underground gas lines statewide, Republicans on Tuesday watched as their own effort to tackle potential gas-line hazards was scuttled by Democrats in the same chamber. Both parties have scrambled to address questions involving the flow lines after a devastating explosion April 17…
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Frackers train sights on ‘fake news,’ try to get Google on board
Conservative blog Colorado Peak Politics alerts us to a new foray by a Texas-based, gas-industry-backed group that seeks to take its fight against fracking’s foes to the Supreme Court of the Internet, aka Google. There’s probably grist here for both sides in Colorado’s perennial fracking debate in the wake of last month’s deadly explosion at home in Firestone.…
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