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First day of Colorado legislature’s special session ends with one bill gone, another to follow

Oct 2, 2017

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Marianne Goodl

It’s like a family reunion. Eventually there will be fights. The “family” – the Colorado General Assembly – returned to the state Capitol on Monday to begin a special session intended to fix an unintentional problem caused last May. And the fight broke out almost immediately. The Senate Transportation Committee killed the Senate bill that…
Capitol critics could benefit from real-world perspective

Sep 5, 2017

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Mark Hillman

Ideas inspire both philosophers and legislators, but the two jobs differ considerably thereafter. That distinction is critical to understanding the current dust-up between the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara and several Republican lawmakers. A thoughtful, assertive voice for liberty, Caldara is a friend and an ally. He and the Institute advocate tirelessly for personal freedom and…
Sonnenberg: Majority of voters ‘sick and tired of the whining’

Mar 3, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

It took a week or so for the news to make it from the eastern plains to us here in the Queen City of the Prairie (they still call Denver that, don’t they?), but it probably was worth waiting for. We’re talking about farmer-rancher-water-warrior-turned-Senator Jerry Sonnenberg’s words of wisdom – imparted at last week’s Morgan…
Electronically available public records passes key Senate committee

Mar 2, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

A bill to make public records available electronically passed the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee Wednesday, a milestone for a controversial bill. “It has indeed been an interesting journey and a work in progress,” said Senate Bill 40‘s sponsor, John Kefalas, D-Fort Collins, After similar legislation, Senate Bill 37, died in committee last year,…
A slightly softer crackdown on those who’d monkey-wrench oil & gas

Feb 27, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

The state Senate OK’d an effort today to step up penalties for vandalism of oil-and-gas hardware like pumps and pipelines, but it first eased up on one provision in the measure. Republican state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg’s Senate Bill 35 would upgrade from a class 2 misdemeanor to a class 6 felony the crime of knowingly destroying, breaking, removing or…
VIDEO: Sonnenberg sees hope for state ag beyond end of trade pact

Feb 1, 2017

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Mary MacCarthy

One of the General Assembly’s leading voices for Colorado agriculture, state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg tells ColoradoPolitics.com’s Joey Bunch that President Trump “will help” expand opportunities for the state’s ag exports to Pacific Rim nations despite the administration’s decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. Sonnenberg, a Sterling Republican, says, “…It’s vital to our national security to…
Will GOP U.S. Senate candidates catch a national wave?

Apr 9, 2016

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Jennifer Kerns

A vacuum of well-known GOP leaders willing to step up and run for U.S. Senate in Colorado has created one of the largest fields of candidates in state history seeking to oust a sitting Democrat U.S. Senator. More than a dozen GOP candidates including state senators, county commissioners, veterans and entrepreneurs are vying to topple…
Letter: Revenue-neutral carbon tax works to cut emissions

Feb 15, 2016

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Colorado Politics

Editor: State Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg expresses deep concerns about the prospect of a tax on carbon (i.e., a tax of hydrocarbon production as a means of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere). He is concerned about the impact of such a tax on personal budgets and on rural and lower-income communities.…
Offbeat bills 2016: Prairie dogs, dead bodies, hunter pink, Ms. Attorney General

Feb 3, 2016

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Kara Mason

Colorado lawmakers have submitted more than 305 bills so far in the legislative session. A few of them are sure to receive attention, not for being controversial or partisan or headline grabbing, but for seeming so… odd. Here’s a short list of some of those unusual bills: Pets and pests, cadaver tamperers, madams attorney general and dead-shot pink: HB-10:…