senate bill 267
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Stapleton’s office disputes Democrats’ claim of delay on rural Colo. bill
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Ryan Parsell, deputy to State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, went before a Colorado legislative committee Monday to swat down a characterization that Stapleton’s office delayed issuing lease-purchase certificates for investors, a wonky assertion with campaign-season undertones. Stapleton is the Republican candidate for governor. Democratic Reps. Daneya Esgar of Pueblo and Chris Hansen of Denver, members of…
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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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Spoof award for state Senate’s Sonnenberg draws a double take
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Wednesday’s announcement by the Denver-based Independence Institute that rural Republican rancher, farmer and state Sen. Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling had won the institute’s tongue-in-cheek “Californian of the Year” award landed with thud on the right. The libertarian-leaning think tank – a sometimes-rogue fellow traveler of GOP causes – cooked up the dubious distinction to mock creeping…
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Independence Institute set to announce which Coloradan will be named Californian of the Year
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Awards season is upon us, and the conservative jesters at Colorado’s right-leaning Independence Institute are bestowing the inaugural “Californian of the Year” award Wednesday on the lucky Coloradan who has “done the most to turn us into California,” in the words of the think tank’s president, Jon Caldara. While the award has been generating some…
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Grantham calls out Hickenlooper for failing to bulk up budget for roads
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Senate President Kevin Grantham weighed in on the governor’s budget requests Thursday, even though Gov. John Hickenlooper hasn’t yet presented them the legislature budget writers, the Joint Budget Committee. That’ll happen later this month. Grantham, a Republican from Canon City, said the “most obvious problem” was the governor’s failure to carve out any money from…
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Losers outnumber winners in Colorado Legislature’s brief special session on pot tax
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It’s safe to say no one is happy with the special legislative session that convened Monday and concluded Tuesday at the Colorado Capitol. Gov. John Hickenlooper has faced nearly unified opposition from Republican lawmakers since calling the special session in order to come up with a “simple fix” to a drafting error in complicated legislation…
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Lawmakers lament special session that yielded no result
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Colorado lawmakers, depending on party affiliation, thought the special session that ended Tuesday on a party-line vote in the Republican-controlled Senate Transportation Committee represented a missed opportunity to fix their mistake or a staunch defense of the state Constitution. Republicans opposed the fix and preferred voters decide the tax issue, or at least get specific legal guidance…
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How does CUT feel about a special session? Try ‘mad as hell’
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Don’t expect the Colorado Union of Taxpayers to sugar-coat its contempt for Senate Bill 267, the omnibus, revenue-raising sleeper of a bill that passed in the final hours of the 2017 legislature last spring – and drew an outcry from many conservatives. Sure, it may have shored up rural hospitals and schools and boosted highway…
