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Democrats Jessie Danielson, Monica Duran set sights on Jeffco statehouse seats
House Speaker Pro Tem Jessie Danielson announced on Wednesday she’s running in next year’s election for the Senate District 20 seat held by term-limited state Sen. Cheri Jahn, a fellow Wheat Ridge Democrat, and Wheat Ridge City Councilwoman Monica Duran, also a Democrat, said on Friday she’s launching a bid for Danielson’s House District 24…
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Getting to yes, just saying no: Lawmakers Everett, Hansen and Kennedy talk session votes
By one measure, state Rep. Justin Everett, a House Republican serving his third term in the Colorado General Assembly, and state Reps. Chris Hansen and Chris Kennedy, a pair of Democrats in their first terms, stand as far apart as any lawmakers at the Capitol, based on the votes they cast in the just-completed 2017…
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Advocate for small businesses gives Colorado General Assembly a grade of B- for session
Colorado’s largest association of small businesses gave the General Assembly’s just-completed session a grade of B- in a legislative report card issued this week. Split control of the House and Senate led to missed opportunities, said Tony Gagliardi, Colorado director for the National Federation of Independent Business, which counts 7,000 members in the state. He…
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Wheat Ridge demands return of records detailing billionaire’s stake in liquor giant Applejack
Saying the city released records it shouldn’t have, an attorney representing the city of Wheat Ridge is demanding the immediate return of dozens of pages of documents concerning a 2014 liquor license application for a new owner of Applejack Wine and Spirits obtained in March under the Colorado Open Records Act, The Colorado Statesman has…
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Late liquor license bill pits smaller stores against some local retail giants
Legislation introduced Tuesday to permit independent liquor stores to amass more than twice as many licenses as last year’s landmark compromise allows has groups representing smaller merchants warning the move will devastate Colorado’s mom-and-pop retail landscape, but the bill’s sponsors and supporters say it’s simply an attempt to level the playing field. House Bill 1370,…
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Insights: Sanctuary city crackdown in Colorado faces same questions as Trump’s order
The politics of a sanctuary city is a slippery beast. We’ve seen that in Washington. We’ve seen it in Texas, and we’ve seen it for months at the Capitol in Denver. The down-and-up struggle in the statehouse comes to close Wednesday when the 2-to-1 Democratic majority on a House committee puts Senate Bill 281 out of commission. Notice…
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Denver Chamber’s Kelly Brough deplores death of transportation funding referendum
Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, lamented the demise late Tuesday of bipartisan legislation that would have asked Colorado voters for a sales-tax increase to fund transportation needs, saying that lawmakers’ failure to fund infrastructure is harming the state’s economy. “We know that Colorado needs a statewide funding source…
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Senate Republicans to offer Colorado transportation bill with no tax hike
Senate Republicans plan to introduce a transportation bill as early as Wednesday afternoon to put $300 million a year into the state’s highway system without asking voters for a tax hike, Colorado Politics has confirmed. The much-anticipated, much-negotiated House Bill 1242 died on a party-line vote Tuesday evening when Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee…