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State Sen. Marble sues Colorado ethics commission over decision
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State Sen. Vicki Marble, a Fort Collins Republican, has filed a lawsuit against the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission challenging its decision earlier this year that she had violated the state’s constitutional amendment on ethics. Marble’s lawsuit was filed June 29 in Denver District Court. In the complaint, Marble’s attorney, Marcy Glenn, challenged the ethics commission’s decision to issue a…
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2018 Colo. legislature: Winners and losers from the session
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Winners House Assistant Majority Leader Alec Garnett of Denver and Assistant Minority Leader Cole Wist of Centennial: For the second year in a row, these two lawmakers on opposite sides of the aisle took on some of the toughest issues in the session. This year, that included the year’s most controversial bill – the “red flag”…
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Forced pooling bill providing oil & gas leasing protections passes legislature
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A bill giving Colorado homeowners more protections when oil and gas drillers seek to obtain their mineral rights has passed the state Senate, its final hurdle in the legislature, and now goes to Gov. John Hickenlooper. Senate Bill 320 earlier was passed by the House of Representatives, with both the industry and environmentalists supporting it.…
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COVER STORY: The fight over forced pooling — should drilling-without-consent law be changed?
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From her front porch in Broomfield’s Wildgrass subdivision, Jean Lim looks out on a park and the Rocky Mountains beyond. There she sits, waiting for an oil and gas driller to use a state law to get the mineral rights beneath her home she doesn’t want to lease. “We are just waiting to be pooled,”…
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Senate bill seeks to stop Hickenlooper from following Paris climate accord
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A Senate committee debated a bill Wednesday to take away Gov. John Hickenlooper’s ability to keep Colorado in line with the Paris accord, the multi-nation agreement to address climate change. When President Trump made that call to pull the U.S. out last year, Hickenlooper signed an executive order to say Colorado would join the U.S.…
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Oil and gas bill helps and hurts Colo. mineral owners, critics say
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A bill before the Colorado legislature that would sharply limit the chances of a mineral owner sharing in the production profits of an oil well is slated to be heard in the state Senate Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy Committee Wednesday. The legislation – Senate Bill 230, sponsored by Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, and…
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Senate Republicans sink bump stocks ban, advance magazine limit repeal
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DENVER – In the same committee hearing Monday afternoon, Senate Republicans rejected a ban on bump stocks – devices that give legal rifles the ability to fire more bullets like an illegal one – and advanced a bill to repeal the 15-round limit on ammunition magazines passed by Democrats in 2013. “We can’t afford to wait…
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Capitol M: Week ending March 9
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A weekly look at the lighter side, or something, of what goes on at the state Capitol. He did what?…Gov. John Hickenlooper didn’t participate in a caucus on Tuesday night. The governor explained he was double-booked and failed to remember that Caucus Night was on the horizon. But he also said that since voters…
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Colorado Ethics Commission again delays decision on Sen. Vicki Marble’s alleged ethics violation
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A decision on an ethics violation complaint levied against Republican Sen. Vicki Marble of Fort Collins is yet another month away, after the members of the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission decided they need more time to hammer out an opinion on the alleged violation. A month ago, a bet that the commission would vote to…
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Colorado commission delays vote on ethics complaint against Sen. Vicki Marble
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The Colorado Ethics Commission Monday spent close to two hours deliberating on the facts and issues in an ethics complaint filed against Fort Collins Republican Sen. Vicki Marble. While the commission appeared to lean toward dismissing the complaint, they decided to hold off on a vote until their next meeting on March 5. Marble is…
