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Q&A with Sandra Hagen Solin | A Capitol insider talks transportation, #MeToo
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Sandra Hagen Solin is among those lobbyists who are pretty much at the top of their game at the Capitol and beyond – having recently brought the 25-year-old firm she founded and owns, Capitol Solutions, under the umbrella of the national law firm Kutak Rock to head up and build its government-relations practice. “I have the…
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2018 Colo. legislature: What’s next on the issues that drove the session?
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The biggest issues of the 120-day Colorado legislative session are far from done just because they’ve been voted on. Transportation is still a snowball rolling downhill toward November, and the dollars that will eventually be steered into roads, bridges and transit are hardly settled. Lawmakers created a $32 billion solution to the state’s public-pension plan,…
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Senate sends transportation funding bill to the governor
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None of the Republicans in the state House of Representatives supported it earlier in the day, but Senate Republicans collected a unanimous vote Tuesday night to send a bill to the governor that will eventually put almost $3 billion into the state’s beleaguered transportation system. Senate Bill 1 puts $495 million into roads, bridges and…
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Colo. House advances transportation bill
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The Colorado House of Representatives passed one of the most important bills of the session – to pump billions of dollars into transportation – Tuesday morning with 36 hours left in the four-month General Assembly. Senate Bill 1 was the first piece of legislation to be introduced this session. It passed the House on a…
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Colorado House advances transportation compromise
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The Colorado House of Representatives on Monday evening gave preliminary approval to a transportation compromise worked out by Democratic and Republican leaders in the legislature. Senate Bill 1 calls for an additional $50 million annually in transportation spending, as well as money from last year’s Senate Bill 267 to borrow $2.35 billion. The bill depends on $495…
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Fix Our Damn Roads could ask Colo. voters to force lawmakers to use existing taxes
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Fix Our Damn Roads, a ballot initiative to force Colorado lawmakers to spend existing taxes on transportation instead of a new one, will soon receive signatures from like-minded voters. The effort is counter to a proposal being considered by a coalition led by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, which could ask voters to approve…
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Transportation funding bill continues to change as session winds down
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Instead of inking a final deal to pay for transportation, a Colorado House committee was still using pencils with big erasers Wednesday afternoon, as Senate Bill 1 continued to undulate with amendments between to fix highways while ensuring education money doesn’t help cover the cost. But because the House planned to convene Wednesday night, the…
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House Democratic leaders talk final days of 2018 session
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House Democrats are committed to wrapping up many of the same issues that Senate Republicans talked about Monday – the state pension plan, transportation, and reauthorizing the civil rights commission – but how they intend to get there couldn’t be more different. And that shows the divide that must be bridged in the remaining days of the…
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Denver chamber-led coalition plots transportation tax strategy at private meeting
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Colorado business and civic leaders along with elected officials met in private Thursday afternoon at the headquarters of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce to talk about a potential request to voters to raise sales taxes statewide for transportation. Leading a statewide coalition of business and elected leaders, the Denver chamber has filed paperwork on a…
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With four weeks to go, hundreds of bills still await final action
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Wednesday marks the beginning of the last four weeks of Colorado’s 2018 General Assembly session. That means “hurry-up” time, with 295 bills (out of 615) on the House and Senate docket still looking for final action – and at least one more to come. The majority of those bills on final approach originated in the…
