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House Dems advance paid-leave bill — toward certain doom in GOP Senate
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When the Senate GOP’s kill committee shot down a House Democratic bill last month mandating unpaid leave for workers in the private sector, they probably didn’t think they’d get another bite at the apple. You know, a chance to reconsider their opposition to such policies? As it turns out, they are being given just such an opportunity — another leave…
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‘Moms’ are back at the Capitol — to oppose a gun bill that’s as good as dead …
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…and in fact has been on life support for some time. But knowing they’ve already won won’t put a damper on plans by the Colorado chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and their allies to turn out in force today at a House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee hearing and denounce Senate Bill 116.…
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House Ds launch another leave bill; Senate Rs ready another grave for it
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If you thought legislative Republicans didn’t like mandating unpaid leave for private-sector workers — they shot down that plan last month — just imagine what they think of a proposal for paid leave that requires workers statewide to cover the tab. Actually, you don’t have to imagine; the House minority GOP issued a press release Tuesday rebuking the Democratic majority after it approved a paid-leave…
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Bill forging better military-community ties en route to guv’s desk
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Gov. John Hickenlooper soon could ink legislation to help combine overlapping services – like schools, restaurants, parks and shops- that are provided at military bases and by the local communities that host them. House Bill 1054, which was OK’d unanimously by the state Senate, was touted today in a press release by the Senate Democrats as “creating a closer…
