#Coleg Notebook: Opting out; test reform; pot turns TABOR into news
Opting out
Senators again debated parental rights this morning. This version was less partisan but just as heated as the debate ignited by the conservative Parent's...
#Coleg Notebook: The cycle of poverty meets the cycle of smoothie
The Cycle of Poverty
The Colorado House debated a series of poverty-related bills on Monday. First, lawmakers passed a ban on using Electronic Benefit Cards...
#Coleg Notebook: Dr. Chaps gets results; hello budget
Dr. Chaps gets results
Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt has been all over the headlines (and the subject of Mike Littwin's most recent column), for saying that the feticide...
#Coleg Notebook: Funding the felony DUI, and voting on pot taxes (again)
Funding the felony DUI
With only $5 million in new spending available to each legislative chamber because of this year's expected TABOR (Taxpayer Bill of...
#Coleg Notebook: Massaging the budget, smoking what’s left
The budget looms
Rep. Tracy Kraft-Tharp, D-Arvada, has a bill, stuck in the appropriations committee, designed to fund a statewide, high-tech fire-and-flood-prediction system. It will...
#Coleg Notebook: Debating guns, schools and race
Private education tax credit launches a flurry of education amendments
For years, Senate Republicans have been trying to pass a tax credit for private K-12...
Newsmaker Q&A: Rep. Dan Thurlow, voting his conscience and taking the heat
Freshman lawmaker Rep. Dan Thurlow, a Republican from Grand Junction, has been making a lot of headlines lately for voting with Democrats. He ran...
#Coleg Notebook: Maximum fight for minimum wage
Minimum wage comes to the Capitol
Advocates for raising the minimum wage to at least $12.50 an hour rallied on the Capitol steps today in...
#Coleg Notebook: Crowd investing; protecting the construction-defect industry
Coming to a Colorado biz near you: Crowd investing
Back when marijuana was first becoming legal, the folks at the Securities and Exchange Commission noticed an...
Top Five Colorado fiscal forecast takeaways
When it comes to state revenue this year, there's good news and there's bad news, according to forecasts released on Wednesday by economists working...