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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...