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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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LOMAX | Price of PERA bailout gouges Colorado taxpayers
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What is the purpose of state government: To provide basic services to the public, or ever-increasing amounts of money to pension funds? That’s the question Colorado taxpayers will be asking today, tomorrow and long into the future after the passage of SB-200, a reform-and-bailout bill for the state’s public pension system. Passed just minutes before…
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Colo. lawmakers find common ground on filling state pension’s $32 billion hole
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Colorado lawmakers cured – they hope – the state employees’ ailing pension plan in the waning minutes of the 120-day Colorado legislative session Wednesday night, a remedy that could help keep Colorado’s credit rating from taking a hit. House and Senate negotiators reached a deal that was approved by both chambers. That should be a relief…
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Business groups urge legislative fix to Colorado public pension
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A group of well-known Colorado business associations has a message for state lawmakers. Essentially, it’s to stop screwing around and work on the underfunded public employees’ pension plan, because for the state’s economy is on the line. Colorado Politics obtain the open letter signed by the Common Sense Policy Roudtable, Colorado Concern, Colorado Association of…
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House committee amends pension bill to address $32B shortfall
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Democrats made big changes to a bill to fill a $32 billion hole in the state’s pension plan for public employees Monday in a partisan fight that’s likely to play out more before the session adjourns in three weeks. Senate Bill 200 passed the House Finance Committee 10-3 Monday evening after more than four hours…
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Colorado teachers rally for more money for schools, less for corporations
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Hundreds of Colorado teachers left their classrooms and descended on the state Capitol Monday morning to demand lawmakers protect public pensions and put millions of dollars more into K-12 education each year. “You left me no choice, I have to use my teacher voice,” the chanted as they made a loop around the statehouse before…
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Colorado Senate gives preliminary pass to PERA fix
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DENVER – The Colorado Senate gave an initial OK to a bill that seeks to shore up the state’s ailing public pension plan Monday morning. Senate Bill 200 still has to pass a formal vote in the upper chamber, where Republicans have a one-seat majority, before the Democratic majority in the House has its chance to…
