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2019 CAPITOL PREVIEW | Legislative leaders talk new session at Denver chamber event
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Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, might have said it best: “We don’t know yet.” That’s what to expect from the 2019 Colorado legislative session, particularly when it comes to what Gov.-elect Jared Polis will do about many issues facing Coloradans that didn’t emerge on the campaign trail. But…
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2019 CAPITOL PREVIEW | Republicans: No gavel, but still a voice at the statehouse
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Their numbers will be diminished in the upcoming legislative session, but Colorado House and Senate Republican aren’t demoralized. Republicans in November lost the one-seat majority they’ve held in the Senate for the last two terms, while Democrats increased their House majority to a level not seen since the 1960s Facing minority status in both chambers…
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INSIGHTS | It’s hard to find common ground on guns
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Joey Bunch is away, so this week we revisit his Insights column of Feb. 23, 2018. Maybe if partisans didn’t go too far. I don’t know. It confounds me why we can’t talk constructively about guns in this state, or this nation, without both sides shutting down. Indecision lives in gridlock. If one…
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Colorado Senate Dems choose Garcia as president; House Dems tap Becker as speaker
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State legislators chose new leadership at the Capitol on Thursday, with the Colorado state Senate Democratic majority choosing Sen. Leroy Garcia of Pueblo as its next president, and the House Democratic caucus tapping Majority Leader KC Becker as the speaker-designee. In the Senate, it all came down to the votes of women. That Democratic caucus…
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Democrats call on GOP legislative leaders to take harassment training over jokes
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Colorado statehouse Democrats are demanding that two Republican leaders in Colorado’s House and Senate – House Minority Leader Patrick Neville and Senate Majority Leader Chris Holbert – undergo sexual harassment training. The request is in response to a Facebook post Neville, R-Franktown, on Saturday. The post refers to an article, written by the Christian news…
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Lawmakers kick off Colo. anti-gerrymandering campaign, with gov. on board
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Senate President Kevin Grantham, a Republican, and House Speaker Crisanta Duran, a Democrat, signed resolutions Wednesday to ask voters to put more balance in how legislative and congressional districts are drawn. In November Coloradans will decide if independent commissions should do that job or leave the task to politicians and judges after the census every…
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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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INSIGHTS: Red flag bill shows need for a white flag in partisan litmus tests
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Close to midnight on one of the final days of the legislative session, Colorado House of Representatives Republicans met in a caucus to discuss removing one of their rising stars, Cole Wist, from his leadership position as assistant minority leader. His offense was sponsoring a bill to disarm people authorities deem to be a threat…
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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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Colorado redistricting resolutions head to the ballot
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Two resolutions that could help create commissions to draw political boundaries for the Colorado legislature and the state’s members of Congress are headed to the ballot. Monday morning the state House of Representatives passed Senate Concurrent Resolution 4 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, which refer respective ballot questions on legislative and congressional redistricting to the November…
