sen. kevin priola
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Effort to recall Sen. Kevin Priola has 60 days to collect over 18,000 signatures
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The race to recall state Sen. Kevin Priola began on Friday, with proponents given 60 days to collect more than 18,000 signatures in order to force a special recall election. In late August, Priola announced he was changing parties from Republican to Democrat after serving on the state House and Senate as a Republican since…
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NOONAN | Dem fund-raising leaves GOP in the dust in key state Senate races
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Out of eighteen state Senate seats up for election, only four are “competitive.” These Senate districts have less than five percentage points separating Democratic and Republican registration. They also have Unaffiliated registration up to 39% of voters. The fight for these seats puts four Democratic women, or the Four Musketeers, against two men and two…
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A shortcut at the DMV? Now that’s what you call public service
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A couple of state lawmakers are touting a speedy end-run on renewing your vehicle registration under a pilot program they helped make possible in suburban Denver’s Arapahoe County. Sen. Ray Scott, R-Grand Junction, and Sen. Kevin Priola, R-Brighton, will give the press a progress report at a briefing this week on the implementation of their Senate Bill 138, passed in the…
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Bipartisan youth justice reform is now on its way to Colorado’s guv
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Kids under 12 years old who commit misdemeanors no longer will face mandatory detention in the Division of Youth Corrections if Gov. John Hickenlooper signs legislation unanimously approved by the Senate Monday. House Bill 1207, sponsored in the Senate by state Sen. Kevin Priola, R-Henderson, and in the House by state Rep. Pete Lee, D-Colorado Springs, gives…
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As anticipated, an effort to reform discipline in Colorado schools …
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… died at the hands of the state Senate GOP in its kill committee on Monday, Chalkbeat Colorado reports this morning. Before being substantially amended at the Monday hearing, the proposed reform would have reined in school suspensions and expulsions of early-elementary kids and public-school preschoolers. In a 3-2, party-line vote, the GOP majority on the Senate State, Veterans…
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A little more of a heads-up, please, before you show me the door?
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Under Colorado law, your landlord can give you the heave-ho with as little as seven days’ advance notice if you are renting month-to-month. And you can be blindsided at any time with a rent hike. That’s not much time to pack — or to hit up your folks for some extra cash to help you stay put. Things…
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Celebrating ‘biliteracy’ and bipartisanship…all in one bill
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Even as the country’s newly minted Republican president mulls plans for building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, Republicans in Colorado’s legislature, joined by their Democratic colleagues across the aisle, are going global. At least, when it comes to the language arts. Senate Bill 123, introduced into the upper chamber by Democratic Sen. Rachel Zenzinger of…
