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Highway-funding legislation is a great first step — but not the final answer
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This week, the Senate Transportation Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 1, a bill to designate General Fund dollars to our transportation infrastructure. It should come as no surprise that the Colorado Contractors Association and many others support this idea and generally any investment into our roads and bridges. For years we have been ringing…
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Hickenlooper’s call for special districts to pay for special session doesn’t sit well with lawmakers on both sides
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When Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper called lawmakers back to the state Capitol for Monday’s special session, he also had another plan: how to pay for it. The governor’s idea was to ask special districts affected by a drafting error in Senate Bill 17-267 to pay the tab, around $25,000 per day. But representatives of some of…
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Aguilar and Herod: What Colorado can do to support our immigrant communities
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Measures brought before the Colorado General Assembly in this legislative session have shown that the contentious national debate on immigration has been jolting our state’s politics as well. As the federal government has shifted its policies to penalize so-called sanctuary cities and aggressively deport immigrants, we’ve seen conflicting bills introduced here on whether our state…
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The Hot Sheet — Guess what: Traffic is bad, Trump haters raise cash, Dems want a chair please, Const. amendment to STOP growth, a House divided and MORE …
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VOL. 01 NO. 197 | DECEMBER 2, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 DENVER – Since we are certain very few of you are old enough to have seen the movie or understand the reference … We won’t say T.G.I.F! (says a curmudgeonly old person). Interesting week in political circles. Outside of eaaaarly speculation concerning the 2018 Colorado…
