Tag: Larry Crowder
Midpoint in the Garden of the General Assembly
Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed roughly 33 bills into law in the past week. You’d be hard pressed to name even one of them....
Guest post: We’re Republican lawmakers and we think it’s time to...
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Americans for Prosperity flex muscles at the statehouse
A year ago, then-state Senate President Bill Cadman, a Colorado Springs Republican, told a gathering of the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity that...
The statehouse skinny: Guns, roads and rubber duckies
Editor's note: Every week, we send a newsletter to subscribers. This week's, which is republished below, is a conversation between The Colorado Independent's Managing...
Hospital provider fee dead, or at least on life support, for...
An intense two-year battle between Colorado’s outgoing Senate president and the outgoing speaker of the House appears to be ending right along with the...
Battle for the Capitol: What’s at stake if Colorado’s Legislature flips?
WALSENBURG, CO — On a recent Wednesday in the back of the Alpine Rose Cafe, an old-school diner with cracked green vinyl booths in...
Death notice: The dramatic debate over the hospital provider fee is...
Debate over Colorado's hospital provider fee fizzled Tuesday in a committee room in downtown Denver.
Alamosa Republican Sen. Larry Crowder, Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper's budget...
Why GOP Sen. Larry Crowder sponsoring a hospital provider fee bill...
Well, it happened. Lawmakers in Denver finally introduced a bill that would reclassify the state's hospital provider fee into a standalone enterprise. Doing so will...
Colorado’s fight over land and water rights hits the Statehouse
Millions of Coloradans and tourists agree they love public lands, which take up more than a third of the state. Thousands of residents depend...
Colorado GOP Sen. Larry Crowder vs. Koch group on Twitter
Republican Sen. Larry Crowder has introduced a new word into the rhetorical battle against the Koch brothers and Americans for Prosperity, their state-based prime political arm...