state of the state
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Legislative session gets going under the Gold Dome with talk of compromise
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Republicans will introduce a bill to lock $300 million a year into the state budget, and then refer a ballot measure to Colorado voters in November to allow the state to borrow money against it for transportation, Senate President Kevin Grantham said on the opening day of the legislative session Wednesday. That would get the…
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WATCH LIVE: Gov. John Hickenlooper gives his last Colorado State of the State address
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(Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared as a blog on our website last Friday.) When gunfire erupted outside the state Capitol last week, before Gov. John Hickenlooper was scheduled to meet with reporters, he was too busy to pay much attention. “It had nothing to do with me,” he said of the gunfire,…
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WATCH LIVE: Colorado legislative session commences Wednesday
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If you’ve been reading this website, you know the legislative session tempo has been picking up for days. Now it’s time to dance in Denver. House Speaker Crisanta Duran and Senate President Kevin Grantham will gavel in the 120-day legislative session at 10 a.m. Wednesday, different than the one they gaveled out last May. Out…
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Getting ready for battle
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The battle lines will likely soon become clear – if they aren’t already – at the state Capitol, as the Colorado Legislature gets its feet underneath itself and moves through the hundreds of bills already introduced since the session began Jan. 11. The main issues will be familiar in most cases: transportation, education and health care will…
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The Hot Sheet – Hick pushes back against D.C., castration meme trouble, CO energy might catch a break, 2018 guv race scorecard and … MORE!
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VOL. 02 NO. 005 | JANUARY 13, 2017 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2017 DENVER – Good morning. Happy Friday! You’ve now made it through two full days of the Colorado Legislature being back in session. Yay! A couple of reminders right off in case you missed it. Don’t forget that The Hot Sheet is now free…
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In State of the State, Hickenlooper digs back into fiscal thicket
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Gov. John Hickenlooper likely had to rewrite the State of the State speech he delivered Thursday, or at least rethink it. He surely thought he would be addressing a Legislature controlled by Democrats working in concert with a Clinton administration in Washington. Things didn’t turn out that way. Instead, the governor as speaking to the…
