Tag: Bill Cadman
Senate president praises Koch group: “AFP is a partner of ours”
DENVER, CO -- Members of the billionaire Koch brothers-founded conservative group Americans for Prosperity showed up to the state Capitol Thursday to drum up lawmakers' support....
Colorado’s top five stand-your-ground Republicans whose votes defied GOP leadership
They voted against reforming police training and transparency. They voted against a pricey flood-and-fire-prevention system. They voted against expanding public services for kids with autism....
Thunderdome 2015: Abortion politics vs. Colorado
“Thunderdome 2015” is The Colorado Independent's wrap-up series on the 2015 legislative season. For a series overview, check out “Thunderdome 2015: 120 days under the...
Skeptical Dems sink Colorado fetal-homicide ‘personhood’ bill
DENVER — Colorado Senate President Bill Cadman’s fetal homicide bill never stood a chance of making it through the legislature, despite being propelled by...
Do-over $20M Denver Schools bill passes out of House as clock...
“We have to watch what happens here. You see how it affects us,” she said. “So far, I have not heard a good reason for anyone to vote no on this... We have to show them that community members are watching them.”
Littwin: Tim Neville’s Colorado Senate is from another planet
In the upset of the day -- maybe of the legislative year -- a freshman Republican senator from Thornton named Beth Martinez Humenik bucked...
Mad, sad Baltimore; doomed fetal homicide bill; twitchy Holmes trial
Susan Greene, moderator: Hello Colorado. Happy lunch hour. And hi to our High Noon guests today. Krista Kafer is cohost of Kelley and Co....
Abortion politics flare as fetal homicide bill advances
DENVER — Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Committee advanced a fetal homicide bill Wednesday night that, for limited use, would write “personhood” language associated...
Walking Dead: Doomed-to-die bills and the Colorado lawmakers breathing life into...
Each session, zombie bills lurk at the Colorado Capitol. Minimum wage increases, high-capacity-magazine-ban repeals, the Parent's Bill of Rights, the gay-conversion-therapy ban – these are just...
Readers’ view: Feticide laws are a step backward, not forward
Crimes like last month’s gruesome attack on pregnant Longmont resident Michelle Wilkins and her 34-week fetus would shock and disturb anybody. Ms. Wilkins –...