Colorado state senators make nice on opening day
Opening day in the Colorado Senate was about comity and comedy. There were lots of jokes. How long will the good feelings last?
Full text: Gov. Hickenlooper’s State of the State speech
"This past year, Colorado has been scorched. Colorado has been flooded. Colorado—once again—endured senseless, inexplicable violence. Yet, despite all of it, we did not let that define us. That is not our story."
Wiretap: The war on the war to help the people who can’t pay lobbyists
Fifty years after Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty, the battle now is about who won. Nobody won.
Full Text: Senate President Carroll opening day speech
Today, as the 2014 legislative session opened, Morgan Carroll of senate district 29 Arapahoe and Aurora counties became the second female president of the Colorado...
Full Text: Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman’s opening day speech
After seconding Senate Majority Leader Rollie Heath's nomination of the chamber's second female president, Senator Morgan Carroll, Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman gave an opening...
Full text: Minority Leader DelGrosso opening day speech
House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, a Loveland Republican, delivered remarks inaugurating the 2014 legislative session that celebrated Colorado mettle tested in recent years by...
Full text: Speaker Ferrandino opening day speech
"Now is not the time to take a step backward, to relitigate the fights of the past, to descend into Washington-style impasse and dysfunction."
Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso is Internet Japanese
House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, like most of his fellow lawmakers, has his own website, except his is in Japanese and it peddles payday loans.
Wiretap: Robert Gates loves and/or hates Barack Obama
If you like to read about longreads, i.e., books, we got two on tap. One is the Defense Secretary Robert Gates autobiography. The other is a new guns-blazing bio on Fox News big man Roger Ailes.
On lawmaking, gun culture and ‘ceding some rational points’
Sound familiar, Colorado? Here was our version: Magpul threatened to leave. Death threats poured into the capitol. Legislators who supported gun-control bills were recalled from their offices.