Tag: Kevin Lundberg
More vacancy committees slated for off-session legislative hopefuls
Michael Johnston's win in the SD 33 vacancy committee election Monday night is just one of a handful of district party gatherings expected within the next few weeks to choose successors for state lawmakers departing for greener pastures.
Speaker Carroll notifies Facebook friends he won’t seek Groff’s seat
Laying to rest speculation he might ditch control of the Colorado House of Representatives to make a bid for a state Senate vacancy, House Speaker Terrance Carroll spelled out his intentions this weekend on his Facebook page:
Terrance Carroll says lots of folks have been asking if I will seek Peter Groff's soon to be vacant state senate seat. The answer is no. I like being Speaker of the House.
Sen. Kevin Lundberg plays a great Gen. Buck Turgidson
Ah ha!
Is it possible the Colorado Senate Republicans have been having fun with us all? That this crazy legislative session has all been a go at tongue-in-cheek acting on their part? That they're merely playing at over-the-top local politicians?
Oil giants have “cornered the market” on Western Slope water rights,...
Six energy companies with plans for large-scale oil shale development on the Western Slope, led by ExxonMobil and Shell, have “cornered the market” on water in northwestern Colorado.
The study by Boulder-based Western Resource Advocates concludes that the oil shale activity envisioned by energy companies and some state and federal lawmakers would consume as much water as the entire Denver metro area on an annual basis.
Senate panel OKs partner proposal derided by critics as ‘marriage light’
A bill designed to make it easier for gay and lesbian couples and other unmarried adults to establish sweeping legal rights for each other — including inheritance, the ability to make medical decisions and hospital visitation rights — moved a step closer to law Monday on a party-line vote in a state Senate committee over the objections of a Republican lawmaker who called the proposal "marriage light."
Senate panel OKs ‘Katie’s Law’ to collect DNA on all felony...
A state Senate panel late Wednesday evening approved a bill to require law enforcement officials to collect DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony in Colorado, over strong objections from one lawmaker who said “Katie’s Law” — named after a New Mexico college student whose brutal rape and murder was solved using DNA evidence — does “permanent damage” to constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
Harvey, Lundberg argue contraception kills on Senate birth control bill
Semantics were the order of the day when conservative Republican state senators attempted to weaken a bill defining contraception arguing that the state must first define that "life begins at conception."
Salazar keeps on rolling back Bush’s 11th-hour oil shale regs
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Wednesday continued to clean house on Colorado’s nascent oil shale industry, rolling back midnight regulations from the Bush administration that would have offered four times as many acres for research and development as the industry last leased in 2005.
Stimulus boost will help renewable energy come of age
Never has the partisan nature of the renewable energy debate been more on display than it was Tuesday during the historic Denver signing of President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package.
Salazar’s oil shale comments run counter to Lundberg energy bill
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in recent days has dampened the hopes of state lawmakers who are pushing to revive Colorado’s long-dormant oil shale industry.