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Colorado State Senate

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Photos: People of the Obama fundraiser

    Ever wonder who can afford to go to presidential fundraisers? Or who gets to attend without paying big bucks? We asked photog Christopher Morgan to find out during yesterday's event at the Hyatt Hotel, which President Barack Obama highlighted shortly after delivering the commencement address at the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Civil unions bill: Pat Steadman calls measure's killing a disgusting spectacle

    Last night, House GOP leadership killed a civil unions bill sponsored by Senator Pat Steadman by preventing a procedural vote that would have brought it to the chamber's floor today. Steadman was severely disappointed by this manner of murder, which also prevented the passage of many other bills. B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Civil unions bill passes Senate, sponsor hopes House lemmings won't jump off cliff

    Later today, the Colorado Senate is expected to formally approve a bill that would legalize civil unions. Of course, the Senate also approved a civil unions measure last year, only to see the proposal die in a House committee, with all six Republican members voting against it. Can it avoid a similar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Gaylord hotel project: Meet the locals in love with it (and one guy against it)

    Frank Gray is president of the Castle Rock Economic Development Council in Douglas County. Yet at a public hearing yesterday on six projects vying for big-bucks state tourism incentives, Gray eschewed his county's own project and, like many of the 23 people who testified, spoke in favor of Gaylord E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Morgan Carroll's new book teaches readers how to Take Back Your Government

    Morgan Carroll.​Before she committed the lessons to the page, state senator Morgan Carroll had delivered hundreds of workshops and seminars on citizen advocacy. Since her career in politics began, the forty-year-old Democrat continues to be overwhelmed by the disconnect between paid lobbyists ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    Proposition 8 ruling: Could it make legislatures gun shy about civil unions?

    Our post about the 9th Circuit Court declaring Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban, unconstitutional, focused on the Colorado case that spelled doom for the state's anti-gay Amendment 2 circa the '90s. But could this ruling cause problems for measures like the civil unions bill progressing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Leaked! 2011 Denver #WebAwards winners

    ​OK, it's not really a leak if the source publishes the info -- more like a sneak-peek of Denver #WebAwards winners, we're publishing ten award winners this morning, in advance of tonight's party at Casselman's. It's open to anyone age 21 and up at 8 p.m.. (although anyone on our list of final ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    THC driving limits could cause more innocent people to spend months in jail, attorney says

    Flickr​On Monday, the Colorado Senate will take up HB 1261, a bill that sets THC driving limits at five nanograms per milliliter of blood -- a level to which many critics object. Indeed, even its sponsor, Representative Claire Levy, now thinks this number may be too strict. But attorney M. Col ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Michael Bennet welcoming Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama -- and President Barack Obama, too?

    Michael Bennet and Ken Buck at 9News debate.​Last night, Senator Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck engaged in their most high-profile debate yet -- and shockingly enough, Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid believes his guy handily won the 9News-sponsored event on view below. Kinc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Wounded warriors: Help yourself to big-game hunting, but don't expect a purple heart

    A Flickr photo​America loves its wounded soldiers. So much so that the Colorado Wildlife Commission will offer free big-game hunting licenses this fall to Colorado veterans severely wounded in action overseas over the past nine years. Still, that might not be much consolation for possibly tho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Mark Udall called Armenian genocide defector by advocacy group in candidate report card

    Mark Udall.​In April, Senator Mark Udall marked the anniversary of the 1915 Armenian genocide with a strongly worded statement. But these words didn't satisfy Rocky Mountain Hye Advocates, an organization trying to get all members of the Colorado congressional delegation to support a national ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Google Fiber: Please, please come to Longmont!

    See full-size image below.​Plenty of cities romance corporations looking for a new home. But few go to the extremes of Longmont, which so wants Google Fiber to set up housekeeping there that it's created a photo from space expressing its desire, plus a video contest and more. Check out exampl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Tom Tancredo: Joe Sestak job offer could lead to impeachment even though Obama's black

    Photo by John JohnstonIs impeachment a black-and-white issue?​The idea that a White House job offer to Pennsylvania's Joe Sestak -- one allegedly designed to convince him not to challenge Senator Arlen Specter -- might be an impeachable defense has been popular in Republican circles of late. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Glenn Beck co-host Pat Gray: AZ illegals aren't like pre-WWII Jews in Germany -- because the Jews were citizens

    Their German citizenship didn't exactly solve their problems.​Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis likes Arizona's controversial new immigration law a whole lot more than does Representative Jared Polis, who told Politico that requiring immigrants to have their papers on them at all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    Andrew Romanoff: Is the national political establishment starting to take his challenge to Michael Bennet seriously?

    "You've heard of me? Really?"​Is Andrew Romanoff's Colorado senate run against Michael Bennet making an impact in the Beltway? Prominent mentions in the Washington Post serve as telling indications -- and the paper has name-checked Romanoff twice in as many days. Yesterday, the Post's Dan Bal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Scott McInnis unity platform fix is in

    Where Scott McInnis leads, all of his former rivals plan to follow.​Last Thursday, Tom Tancredo confirmed in this space that he was part of a group coming up with a unity platform Republican Scott McInnis could use against Bill Ritter in the 2010 gubernatorial campaign -- and that if all went ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Swastika Guy was out and proud at anti-stimulus protest

    Courtesy of ProgressNow Colorado."Swastika Guy" and "Hammer-and-Sickle Guy" in close proximity to Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin and Sen. Josh Penry. In today's Rocky Mountain News, FOX News contributor Michelle Malkin claims she didn't realize she posed for a photo with a man holding a swast ... More >>

  • News

    August 14, 2008

    Union Station may become Denver's gateway again -- if it stays on track

    Courtesy of ProgressNow Colorado."Swastika Guy" and "Hammer-and-Sickle Guy" in close proximity to Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin and Sen. Josh Penry. In today's Rocky Mountain News, FOX News contributor Michelle Malkin claims she didn't realize she posed for a photo with a man holding a swast ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2008

    John Andrews' Attack on Rima Sinclair

    Courtesy of ProgressNow Colorado."Swastika Guy" and "Hammer-and-Sickle Guy" in close proximity to Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin and Sen. Josh Penry. In today's Rocky Mountain News, FOX News contributor Michelle Malkin claims she didn't realize she posed for a photo with a man holding a swast ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    Dani Newsum to Leave Colorado Inside Out

    Courtesy of ProgressNow Colorado."Swastika Guy" and "Hammer-and-Sickle Guy" in close proximity to Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin and Sen. Josh Penry. In today's Rocky Mountain News, FOX News contributor Michelle Malkin claims she didn't realize she posed for a photo with a man holding a swast ... More >>

  • News

    March 6, 2008

    Justice High Puts Students in the Courtroom

    Magistrate T.J. Cole holds court in the classroom.

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2008

    Best of Denver Winners from 1995

    Ah, 1995: a time when entire Best Of categories were devoted to the O.J. Simpson trial, Bernie Bickerstaff and Dikembe Mutombo were still dominating the sports pages, and Mel's Bar and Grill was still new. Check out the winners from our 1995 Best Of issue after the jump.

  • News

    September 13, 2007

    Republicans Say DNC Will Be a Grand Ol' Party

    Colorado Republican leader Dick Wadhams thinks the 2008 Democratic National Convention will help his party, too.

  • News

    August 9, 2007

    Making Progress

    ProgressNow exports its model for hypying liberal causes across the U.S.

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of February 2, 2006

  • News

    November 18, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of November 18, 2004

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    Smoke Detector

    Anne Landman has dedicated her life to being a pain in the ash. Will it make a difference come election time?

  • News

    March 18, 2004

    It's Not Easy Being Green

    Look who's mad at Dick Lamm now!

  • News

    February 5, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of February 5, 2004

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    Power to the People

    The answer could be blowing in the wind.

  • News

    October 23, 2003

    Off Limits

    Pack journalism

  • News

    September 4, 2003

    Toxic Shock

    Starting a meth lab takes little skill or cash. The cleanup is another story.

  • Dining

    August 21, 2003

    Bite Me

    Something to Chew On

  • News

    May 1, 2003

    Imagine a Great Mayor

    The candidates are spit-shining their images, trying to prove that, really, they're not all the same person.

  • Dining

    January 16, 2003

    Bite Me

    Fed-Letter Day

  • News

    December 26, 2002

    Strange but True

    Plutonium lasts forever, but the radioactive fallout from 2002 should be mercifully brief. Don your Rocky Flats moonsuits and jump in!

  • News

    November 14, 2002

    Off Limits

    Think big

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    Off Limits

    Zoom service

  • News

    January 4, 2001

    Know Your Boardmembers

    The graduating class and the incoming members.

  • News

    April 16, 1998

    Spin Cycles

    Laundered money, the shadow of big tobacco, and a blubbering court reporter: The wild trial over Colorado's Amendment 15.

  • News

    September 11, 1997

    Off Limits

    Laundered money, the shadow of big tobacco, and a blubbering court reporter: The wild trial over Colorado's Amendment 15.

  • News

    August 28, 1997

    A Closet Full of Suits

    When Paula Larsen feels wronged, she sues--and she never lets go.

  • News

    March 20, 1997

    He Always Plays His Bills

    For Senate Majority Leader Jeff Wells, the game's the thing.

  • News

    September 5, 1996

    Off Limits

    For Senate Majority Leader Jeff Wells, the game's the thing.

  • News

    January 11, 1995

    THE TWO-PERCENT SOLUTION

    COLORADO'S THIRD PARTIES SCREAM ABOUT PROPOSED ELECTORAL CHANGES.

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