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DENVER Legislators have rejected a proposal to give tax credits to parents who send their children to private school.The House Appropriations Committee declined to advance House Bill 1048 on...
DATE: May 7, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER House Republicans introduced a new map of future Congressional districts Tuesday, setting battle lines in a highly partisan fight.This is our best effort to put forward a map that...
DATE: May 5, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Rep. J. Paul Browns bill to expand the bear hunting season survived a brush with death Wednesday morning in the state House.Brown, R-Ignacio, lost votes from two fellow Republicans for...
DATE: May 5, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Tea party activists faced off with the traditional business-friendly wing of the Republican Party over a health-care bill Tuesday.The business wing won.House Majority Leader Amy Stephens,...
DATE: May 5, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER A Republican lawmaker backed away Monday from his second attempt to pass an Arizona-style immigration law.Rep. Randy Baumgardner, R-Hot Sulphur Springs, previously killed his own...
DATE: May 5, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER One thing has become apparent to both Republicans and Democrats in the state Legislature this year: Public schools can no longer count on the state to pay the bills.Schools are reeling...
DATE: May 3, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
Denver Water and Western Slope leaders announced Thursday they will stop fighting and start playing nice with Colorados water resources.The terms of the legal settlement among some of the states...
DATE: April 30, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Democrats played their card in the Congressional redistricting game Thursday, introducing a bill to draw a new map that splits the Western Slope.Senate Bill 268 would set up seven new...
DATE: April 30, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia is raising tens of millions of dollars to pay for a new teacher evaluation system that will replace the current seniority system in public schools, he said...
DATE: April 30, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER One of the few proposals that Gov. John Hickenlooper has publicly supported died quietly Wednesday afternoon.Unlike past governors who laid out detailed lists of favorite bills each...
DATE: April 30, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER The Legislature set itself on a collision course over health care, advancing bills this week that both support and reject the insurance law signed by President Barack Obama.A House...
DATE: April 28, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
DENVER Legislators refused Monday to grant in-state tuition to the children of illegal immigrants.In a party-line 7-6 vote, the House Education Committee killed Senate Bill 126, which would have...
DATE: April 28, 2011 | CATEGORY: State Nation World
