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House Democrats advance healthcare, jobs bills for rural Colorado
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House Democrats were pleased with themselves Thursday when they advanced a pair of partisan bills aimed at helping rural Colorado. Both were the work of Rep. Dylan Roberts, D-Eagle, who was appointed last October to fill the vacancy left when Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush of Steamboat Springs left the legislature to run for U.S. House.…
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Bipartisanship on energy? Thank Sen. Ray Scott
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Here’s something you don’t hear often enough: Thank you, Ray Scott. The rock-ribbed Republican senator from Grand Junction is a political slugger, but he’s found a soft side to get Democrats to the table on energy issues this session. He also is as strong an advocate for oil and gas, along with coal, as you…
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Rep. Dan Thurlow challenging Sen. Ray Scott in GOP primary, flirted with unaffiliated bid
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State Rep. Dan Thurlow, a Grand Junction Republican, plans to announce Saturday he’s challenging state Sen. Ray Scott in the GOP primary, although he first considered running for the seat as an unaffiliated candidate, Colorado Politics has learned. Thurlow, who has represented House District 55 for two terms, asked supporters in an email Friday to…
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Republicans’ Colorado Energy Office rescue clears committee on bipartisan vote
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A bill to restore the funding and redistribute the attention of the Colorado Energy Office cleared its first committee Thursday. That’s not surprising for a Republican bill in a Republican-led committee, but the bipartisan 9-2 vote on Senate Bill 3 means it might have a chance to rescue an imperiled agency. Last year a partisan…
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Sen. Ray Scott wants to power up the Colorado Energy Office, with a new point of view
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Senate Republicans say they want to make the Colorado Energy Office great again, and Senate Bill 3 this session is just the ticket for an all-of-the-above energy effort, said Sen. Ray Scott, the sponsor of the bill. In a partisan standoff at the end of the last session about the office’s mission, it was left…
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Transportation has become the forgotten stepchild in the state budget
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Gov. Hickenlooper has again asked for zero taxpayer dollars for roads and bridges in his annual budget message. Sad to say, Colorado’s Governor cannot find even one taxpayer dollar for roads and bridges in $11.5 billion in planned General Fund expenditures. This pattern in the Governor’s annual budget submissions has been dutifully echoed in Democrat…
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Senate leaders say Ray Scott violated no rules by blocking critics on social media
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Ray Scott won’t face an ethics rebuke from his fellow senators, after Republican and Democratic leadership said his social media accounts are his business. Scott, a Republican from Grand Junction, received complaints from three Grand Valley residents because he blocked them from posting on his social media accounts, including Facebook, Charles Ashby of the Grand…
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Scott, Rankin request state data about Hickenlooper’s claim on abandoned wells
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Before the state raises taxes and fees on an industry, two top legislative Republicans want to know more about the problem with abandoned oil and gas wells in Colorado. In a Aug. 22 story in the Denver Post by Christopher N. Osher, Gov. John Hickenlooper said he would ask oil and gas companies to help…
