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Strike 4 for Colorado paid family leave measure
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Over the last five years, Colorado lawmakers have tried four times to pass a bill creating a system for providing paid leave for workers taking time off to tend to family needs. And now, for the fourth time, they have failed in the attempt. The Denver Business Journal’s Ed Sealover reports that House Bill 1001…
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Senate Dems cry foul over latest sexual harassment report on Baumgardner
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“We’ve been fooled!” Senate Democrats are reacting angrily to the latest report on allegations of sexual harassment against Colorado state Sen. Randy Baumgardner. They vented their anger both at the Hot Sulphur Springs Republican, demanding he resign, and at Senate leadership, who they claim refuse to take action regarding the allegations. An independent investigation into…
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Civil rights bill is heavily amended in Colo. Senate committee
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A bill reauthorizing the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and Division of Civil Rights went through a four-hour hearing in the Colorado legislature Wednesday that drew dozens of witnesses, most opposing a slew of amendments planned by the bill’s sponsor, Republican state Sen. Bob Gardner of Colorado Springs. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” said several.…
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Bill to notify victims of inmate’s location heads to governor
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Before Colorado’s legislative session started, state Rep. Cole Wist told Colorado Politics it wasn’t right that crime victims or their families put their heads on their pillows each night not knowing where the inmate is jailed. He said that when an inmate is housed outside the state, victims and their families can go years without…
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Senate approves Colorado state budget on 26-8 vote
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The Colorado Senate Thursday put its vote of approval on the state 2018-19 budget that it spent 11 hours fighting over Wednesday night. The $28.9 billion budget bill and the 18 accompanying bills that help balance the budget now go back to the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee, which developed the budget. The JBC will be…
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Rhonda Fields endorses Levi Tillemann in 6th Congressional District Democratic primary
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DENVER – State Sen. Rhonda Fields, an Aurora Democrat, has thrown her support behind Levi Tillemann in the two-way Democratic primary in the 6th Congressional District – giving the clean energy expert and author a boost with his first endorsement from a sitting legislator. Tillemann is facing attorney and veteran Jason Crow in a primary for…
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Maisha Fields named political director of Democrat Levi Tillemann’s congressional campaign
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Seasoned political operative Maisha Fields, the daughter of state Sen. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, has joined Democrat Levi Tillemann’s congressional campaign as political director, the campaign announced Thursday. Fields, who held a similar position on Gov. John Hickenlooper’s 2014 gubernatorial campaign, got her start in politics more than a decade ago when her younger brother Javad…
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Senate Democratic leader Guzman stepping down from top post
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DENVER – Colorado state Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman has stepped down from her post leading the Democrats in her caucus with less than six weeks to go in her final legislative session. Assistant Senate Minority Leader Leroy Garcia was elected in her place by the Democratic caucus Thursday morning shortly before the start of…
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Colorado Senate verbally jousts over union activity on the clock
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State Sen. Bob Gardner was having breakfast reading the newspaper when he saw that a public-sector union was on strike elsewhere in the country. The Republican from Colorado Springs was not supportive. “And I got to thinking about the fact that those collective bargaining agreements are often negotiated by people who are being paid by…
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Senate votes to let Coloradans carry concealed guns without a permit
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The Colorado Senate gave a narrow passage to “constitutional carry” – carrying a concealed weapon without a permit – Thursday morning, one of the last gun bills filed so far this session. The Republican legislation likely faces the same outcome other gun bills have received in the Democratic -led House: certain defeat. Senate Bill 97…
