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Colo. state treasurer candidate seeks records on PERA contracts
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Bernard Douthit, a Democratic candidate for Colorado state treasurer, filed two open-records requests Thursday to get a look at more than 200 contracts between the state pension plan and fund management firms that he claims are paid about $130 million per year. Douthit’s request seeks access to the contracts, whether they can be terminated and…
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Colo. House Democrats finally pass pension bill; now they negotiate
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The Colorado House passed a solution to the $32 billion hole in the state public employees’ pension Tuesday morning, sending one of the session’s biggest bills to negotiators with a little more than a week left in the session. The bill passed on a party-line vote. Senate Bill 200 was amended by Democrats in the…
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Republican businessman Barry Farah launches 11th-hour bid for Colorado governor
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Colorado Springs businessman Barry Farah is jumping in the crowded Republican primary for governor Wednesday, barely three weeks before the GOP state assembly, saying he wants to “reform the state of Colorado’s government to have a more humble view of itself.” Farah, 56, told Colorado Politics he decided to mount a last-minute campaign for the…
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PERA fix plows ahead to shore up Colorado public pension plan
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A Colorado Senate committee listened to four and a half hours of testimony on how to fix the state’s shaky pension plan Tuesday, but it didn’t take a vote. Instead, the Finance Committee will reconvene Thursday to throw amendments at Senate Bill 200. At stake is a plan to fill in a projected pension shortfall…
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Gov. John Hickenlooper addresses roads, rural needs, marijuana in State of the State
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Along with the growling tractors in the Brush Fourth of July parade and the smell of barbecue in Sterling, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper talked about roads, drug addiction, state employees’ pensions, rural broadband and healthcare in his State of the State address Thursday. A governor who could someday be on a national ticket also swerved…
