Tag: general assembly
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Colorado lawmakers vote to give themselves a pay raise beginning in 2025
Colorado House Democrats on Thursday voted to boost the pay of General Assembly lawmakers beginning in the 2025-26 fiscal year, with those living in the Denver metro area getting substantially more in actual dollars and rate increase than policymakers who reside outside. The cost to taxpayers for the higher per diems is just shy of…
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Ex-staffers: Office of Public Guardianship is in crisis, lawmakers under pressure to regular funeral industry | WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Today is Feb. 21, 2024, and here’s what you need to know: A Colorado office tasked with taking care of some of the state’s most vulnerable citizens is once more facing questions about its management, notably after resignations have left it with just a few staffers to care for more than 80 clients. The Office…
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Judicial discipline proposal draws Colorado lawmaker skepticism
During a legislative oversight hearing on Friday, judicial leaders revealed that a man who broke into the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center earlier this month caused $35 million in damage, resulting in several offices being off-limits for months to come. Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright told members of the House and Senate judiciary committees…
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Colorado Politicking | Friday, March 18, 2022
This week on Colorado Politicking, legislative reporters Marianne Goodland and Hannah Metzger join host Pat Poblete to discuss the Colorado General Assembly reaching the halfway mark in the 2022 legislative session.
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INSIGHTS | Bipartisanship on education commission will serve Polis well
Gov. Jared Polis did something right a couple of weeks ago. He appointed former state Rep. Jim Wilson to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The 11-member board was created by the legislature in 1965 to write policy on, well, higher education and enforce it through the state Department of Education. The definition of higher…
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INSIGHTS | Bipartisanship on education commission will serve Polis well
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gov. Jared Polis did something right a couple of weeks ago. He appointed former state Rep. Jim Wilson to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. The 11-member board was created by the legislature in 1965 to write policy on, well, higher education and enforce it…
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NEWS | Colorado General Assembly Opening Day 2021
Scenes from the Colorado General Assembly Opening Day 2021at the Capitol. (Video by Katie Klann)
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Colorado Legislature 2021 preview | 5 things to watch during the session
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Politics’ insiders handicapped the issues to keep an eye on in the 2021 Colorado legislative session. 1. COVID-19 How long will the session last? The General Assembly will gavel in and then recess until February, but to what end? Will the vaccine be more…
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Colorado Legislature 2021 preview | 5 things to watch during the session
Colorado Politics’ insiders handicapped the issues to keep an eye on in the 2021 Colorado legislative session. 1. COVID-19 How long will the session last? The General Assembly will gavel in and then recess until February, but to what end? Will the vaccine be more broadly present? Will new federal stimulus help save the day?…