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Colorado lawmakers want answers on prison system’s inmate math
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and a legislative working group that will convene for the first time Wednesday are scrutinizing how the Department of Corrections estimates how many beds – and ultimately how much money – the state needs for inmates. Lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats, are holding up a budget request from the prison system, questioning…
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Colorado state lawmakers honor fallen El Paso County Deputy Sheriff Micah Flick
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The eight members of the Colorado House who represent El Paso County held a moment of silence Tuesday morning to honor the memory of El Paso County Deputy Sheriff Micah Flick. Flick, an 11-year veteran of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department, was killed in the line of duty Tuesday afternoon during a stolen car…
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PHOTOS: Colorado Politics hosts party to celebrate launch of legislative session
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More than 150 politicos of all stripes packed the historic Carriage House at the Governor’s Residence at Boettcher Mansion in Denver Wednesday night for a session-opening shindig thrown by Colorado Politics. Republicans rubbed shoulders with Democrats, toasting the young political news website and the nearly 120-year-old publication it incorporated last year. Vince Bzdek, editor of…
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Centrist Project launches initial Colorado slate of unaffiliated legislative candidates, announces name change
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The nonprofit formerly known as the Centrist Project, a group working to elect nonpartisan officials nationwide, on Monday unveiled a slate of four unaffiliated Colorado candidates running this year for the Legislature in the opening salvo of its assault on the two major parties’ unbroken rule of the state’s government. It also announced it’s changing…
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Former Manitou Springs mayor to run for Pete Lee’s House seat
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The race to succeed Rep. Pete Lee in House District 18 in Colorado Springs next year got a little more crowded when former Manitou Springs Mayor Marc Snyder signed up for the race last week. Lee is running in Senate District 11 to succeed Mike Merrifield, a former Manitou Springs city councilman who is retiring…
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Legislative panel wants more discretion for judges on sex offenders and habitual offenders
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The way justice is meted out in Colorado could change, giving judges more say in habitual offender and sex offender cases, through bills bound for the legislature. The Sentencing in the Criminal Justice System Interim Study Committee is proposing bills to allow judges more leeway in sentencing to make sure the punishment fits the crime. The…
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CASA names DHS’s Robert Werthwein a Friend of Children
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The new director of Colorado Office of Behavioral Health has another new title: Friend of Children. Robert Werthwein received the award from Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASA. Werthwein was recognized for his work with the Colorado Department of Human Service’s Office of Children, Youth and Families from March 2015 to September 2017, before DHS…
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Republican Patrick McIntire launches bid in Senate District 11
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Republican Patrick McIntire this week launched his campaign for the Senate District 11 seat held Democrat Mike Merrifield, who isn’t running for a second term in next year’s election. “It is only when our form of government is reclaimed from special interests and blind partisans, that the trust that has been lost between our community and…
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Republican Jillian Likness joins race for Colorado Springs legislative seat
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Jillian Likness, a Republican political activist and strategist, is in the race to succeed Rep. Pete Lee in House District 18 in Colorado Springs next year. Lee, a Democrat, is term-limited in the House and said last weekend he plans to run for Senate District 11. The incumbent there, Democrat Mike Merrifield, said he’s stepping…
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Colorado Springs’ Sen. Mike Merrifield said it’s time to retire, maybe
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The news came as a surprise Saturday night when Rep. Pete Lee told a gathering of Democrats at Colorado College he planned to run for Sen. Mike Merrifield’s District 11 seat. Merrifield could run for another term, before term limits force him out in 2022. He beat Republican Bernie Herpin in 2014, after Herpin unseated…
