special session
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Legal questions over fix stymie special session
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The biggest fight over whether to fix a drafting error in an omnibus rural sustainability bill is whether the fix requires voter approval. Senate Republicans are adamant that voters in those special districts should weigh in. Democrats and those who have fought similar battles in the courts say no. And it’s all about how the Taxpayer’s…
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Republicans signal quick end to Colorado special session
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Colorado Senate Republicans said Monday morning, at the dawn of special session, they needed the extra three and half months before the next regular session to find a solution to fix a bill they helped mess up in the last regular session. “There’s been a lot of controversy and firestorm about what’s getting ready to…
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Updated: Special districts to pay the cost of special session to fix tax error
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The special session that starts Monday won’t cost taxpayers a dime, at least not most taxpayers, the governor’s office tells Colorado Politics. Gov. John Hickenlooper brokered the deal, because special districts – those that collect a taxes for special services, such as bus and transit lines or parks and museums – because they stand to…
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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…
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Staff picks: Here are the top 5 stories of the week in Colorado Politics
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The news in Colorado this week included a special session of the General Assembly, a legal fight with President Trump, a tough line on sex offenders and soul-searching by a politician often accused of not having one. Here are the stories that grabbed headlines and have the likelihood to keep yielding news to watch, as…
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Colorado Municipal League untangles special session-driving tax issue
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As often is the case, the Colorado Municipal League is the go-to source to explain complicated issues that we untrained reporters struggle to fully grasp. That’s the case with the tax bugaboo that has Gov. John Hickenlooper working on plans to call lawmakers back to Denver for a special session next month. The mistake was…
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Kagan: Gov. Hickenlooper should call special session
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As I write, Gov. John Hickenlooper is contemplating whether to call the Legislature into special session in order to pass a comprehensive transportation bill. He should do it, and give the Legislature a chance to resuscitate the transportation proposal that so narrowly failed during the regular session. Almost everyone agrees that we need to repair…