planned parenthood
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Williams seeks to amend Colorado budget to exclude fetal ‘baby body parts’ university research
It was a short footnote to the state Department of Higher Education appropriations nestled deep in the sprawling 600-plus page $26.8 billion state budget proposal – but it made a splash, just as sponsor Rep. Dave Williams, a freshman Colorado Springs Republican, surely knew it would. “Amendment 40” would have stripped funds from Colorado public…
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Bennet, Gardner propose threatening fellow senators with arrest to resolve government shutdown
In order to prevent or curtail a government shutdown, U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner are proposing strict Senate rules that could lead to the arrest of fellow lawmakers who aren’t hard at work trying to resolve an impasse. A bipartisan resolution introduced by the two Colorado senators Tuesday would require that their colleagues…
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U.S. Senate vote to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood is moot in Colorado
Some perspective is in order – and usually overdue – when hot-button issues are debated in Congress and aired in the press. Planned Parenthood, for example. And Denverite’s Erica Meltzer offers a timely dose of perspective in the wake of last week’s U.S. Senate vote to let states withhold federal Title X funding from family-planning clinics that perform abortions. The…
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Polis dives in to massive town halls, plays reporter, counselor, party host
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis on Sunday worked a 20 foot stretch of the line of people that snaked around Broomfield High School. It was a perfect Colorado springtime afternoon yet more than a 1,000 people showed up for his congressional town hall. The same amount turned out hours later 55 miles north at the town…
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Colorado contraception bill part of trend rising in face of health care uncertainty
A bipartisan Colorado bill that would make it easier for women in one visit to the pharmacy to collect more of their prescription contraception in order to be guarded against pregnancy for longer stretches of time. The bill arrives as part of a legislative trend sweeping state capitals coast to coast that would give women…
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In Depth: Perlmutter joins Lakewood legislators for jam-packed town hall
Next week, a Czech ensemble, Cirk La Putyka, brings its contemporary take on the circus to the stage, blurring the lines between acrobatics, dance, puppetry and music, and a couple of weeks after that it’s the boisterous “Hello, Dolly!” musical that’ll be filling the theater’s seats for a two-week run. But Saturday, Feb. 18, it…