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Colorado lawmakers take preliminary action on PERA repayment
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Despite concerns around gubernatorial opposition to making up a missed 2020 payment to the Public Employees Retirement Association, the House Finance Committee took first action this week on House Bill 1029. That measure would not only make up the $225 million payment due in 2020 that was suspended due to the recession, but also add…
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‘A mistake was made’: Calls grow louder to reverse 2019 law that lowered penalty for fentanyl possession
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The deaths of five Commerce City residents, reportedly due to overdoses tied to fentanyl, prompted lawmakers on both sides of the aisle at the state Capitol to call for changes in state law Tuesday, with some calling the law that eased penalties for drug possession a “mistake.” “Clearly a mistake was made” to lower…
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2018 Colo. legislature, by the numbers
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The 2018 General Assembly session that wrapped up on May 9 is notable for a lot of reasons, starting off with the first expulsion of a sitting lawmaker in more than 100 years. And there are lots of other notable numbers to come out of the session: Number of bills: 721. Is it a record?…
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Colorado House talks about what makes Springs the ‘best’
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Colorado Springs’ lawmakers seized their bragging rights on the House floor Tuesday morning. Republican Rep. Larry Liston held up The Colorado Springs Gazette when he talked about the news that the city is the second-best place in America to live in a new ranking by U.S. News & World Report magazine. Austin, Texas, took first…
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El Paso County delegation almost unanimous in vote to expel Rep. Steve Lebsock
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The eight members of the Colorado House from El Paso County were nearly unanimous on whether or not to expel Rep. Steve Lebsock. Seven of the eight voted in favor of the resolution to expel the Thornton Democrat. The lone “no” vote came from the El Paso delegation’s newest member, Republican Rep. Shane Sandridge, who…
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Colorado state lawmakers honor fallen El Paso County Deputy Sheriff Micah Flick
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The eight members of the Colorado House who represent El Paso County held a moment of silence Tuesday morning to honor the memory of El Paso County Deputy Sheriff Micah Flick. Flick, an 11-year veteran of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department, was killed in the line of duty Tuesday afternoon during a stolen car…
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State Republicans OK Shane Sandridge election to replace ex-state Rep. Dan Nordberg
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The Colorado Republican Party made it official Tuesday: Shane Sandridge, a Colorado Springs investment consultant and former police officer, won a vacancy election to fill the term of former state Rep. Dan Nordberg, the Colorado Springs Republican who announced last month he was stepping down to take a job as regional administrator of the Small Business Administration…
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State Republicans to announce ruling Tuesday on contested HD 14 vacancy election
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Call him Schrödinger’s rep. Like the cat made famous by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s 1935 thought experiment in quantum mechanics, Colorado Springs Republican Shane Sandridge can be considered both alive and dead – in the political sense – until the Colorado GOP reveals how the party’s executive committee ruled last week on a complaint challenging the…
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Republican committee member takes complaint over HD 14 vacancy election to state GOP
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The Republican precinct officer who charged that improprieties should invalidate last week’s vacancy committee election to replace state Rep. Dan Nordberg escalated her complaint to the Colorado GOP Thursday after the committee chair dismissed her objections and said the election followed the rules. Kanda Calef, a member of the House District 14 Republican vacancy committee,…
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Republican committee member challenges results of House District 14 vacancy election
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A member of the House District 14 Republican vacancy committee on Friday challenged Thursday night’s election of Shane Sandridge to the Colorado House of Representatives alleging another committee member was ineligible to participate and arguing Sandridge fell one vote short of the required majority. The vacancy committee picked Sandridge from a field of five candidates…
