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Position: Life in the Legislature
Position: Life in the Legislature
Position: Life in the Legislature
Position: Live in the Legislature
Position: Life in the Legislature
Position: HERALD STAFF WRITER
Gun control, civil unions, school refinance, renewable energy, Medicaid expansion, single-payer health care, repeal of death penalty, comprehensive sex education, and, of course, marijuana...
DATE: April 23, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
When people have asked me to describe this legislative session, often I find myself referring to the expression that it's been like "the pig in the python." There's so much being jammed through in...
DATE: April 16, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
When people have asked me to describe this legislative session, often I find myself referring to the expression that it's been like "the pig in the python." There's so much being jammed through in...
DATE: April 15, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
The Colorado Youth Advisory Council (COYAC) students make their second trip of the legislative session to the Capitol this week, and they've been busy preparing for their time with the legislators....
DATE: April 8, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
Last week brought life in the legislature face to face with the real world on a couple of different fronts. We began the week with two funerals, one for Tom Clements, the head of Colorado's...
DATE: April 2, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
Every week this session seems to feature a new high-profile and volatile issue to be debated. Last week, it was the start of the school finance bill. Colorado's approach to funding our schools has...
DATE: March 25, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
Last week was busy with constituent contact as well as my regular legislative duties. A group of citizens participating in the Montrose Chamber's leadership program came to Denver to spend some...
DATE: March 18, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
We voted on the gun control bills on Monday and the bills now go back to the House, if they were amended in the Senate or, if unamended, they now go to the governor for his consideration. For those...
DATE: March 13, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
The Senate will be consumed this week with what has now grown to six very controversial gun control bills to be heard in committees, then on the floor. The concentration of so many extremely...
DATE: March 5, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
A busy week at the Capitol was followed by a Saturday townhall meeting in Durango. An unprecedented number of people turned out for the annual forum hosted by the League of Women Voters, with many...
DATE: Feb. 25, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
Much of last week was spent working on bills of mine in committee or on the Senate floor. By the end of the week, though, constituent contact regarding the gun control bills in the House was all...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
Looking back over the events of last week, we had a number of agricultural groups at the Capitol. I was very honored to receive the Pinnacle Award, the top legislative award from the Colorado Farm...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
