pera reform
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IN RESPONSE | Don’t sell short the big tent of the two-party system
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I was cruising right along through Miller Hudson’s essay (“Is independent thought making a comeback at the legislature?” May 29) until I came to his surprising conclusion – that the breakthroughs achieved by the state legislature in the last two sessions would somehow multiply if independent or third-party candidates win more seats in the election…
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NOONAN | Record of outgoing legislative leadership: incremental change
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The opening of the 2011 General Assembly marked the first year of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s administration. It was the year that Kevin Grantham, Senate president, and Crisanta Duran, House speaker, started their eight years in the Senate and House. Other prominent leaders in that elected class include Sen. Lucia Guzman, Senate minority leader; Rep. Millie…
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PERA reform? House version is a disaster waiting to happen
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On April 16, the Colorado House Finance Committee considered Senate Bill18-200, the bipartisan effort to reform and rescue the state’s deeply troubled public pension system (PERA). Unfortunately, what came in to committee as a bill to modestly move the ball forward on reform and shore up the plan’s finances left committee as a plan to…
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SPONSORED: CSPR study underscores the need for PERA reform
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Rarely does any issue in the Colorado Legislature garner unanimous agreement. This year, the stakes are too high to ignore and on the issue of Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) reform. Every lawmaker, policy expert, the Governor, and interest group agree, PERA, the Public Employee Retirement Association, must be reformed. Since the mid-2000s, the amount of…
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#Coleg Week 6: Concerning would-be fracktavist vandals, the death penalty, civil forfeiture, the tampon tax, PERA, broadband
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Lawmakers today embark on their sixth week of the session. Eleven weeks to go. What’s on the schedule at the gold dome this week? The “Most Accessed Bills” box on the General Assembly website offers a snapshot. It includes Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg’s SB 35, a “fracktavist beware” bill that would hike penalties for tampering with…
