special legislative session
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YESTERYEAR: Owens calls special session on redistricting, growth
Fifteen Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Gov. Bill Owens had announced a special legislative session to tackle congressional redistricting and urban growth, calling for it to start in a little over two months, on Sept. 20, and already the parties were going to their corners. “The last time we had a special…
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Hickenlooper: Special session would only come as a result of a ‘different type of compromise’
?The talk began almost the minute the legislative session ended May 11 and it has grown ever since. Gov. John Hickenlooper, frustrated by the fact that lawmakers failed to pass a proposal to reclassify the state’s hospital provider fee and add hundreds of millions of dollars to the general fund, was going to call them…