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Payday loan providers help introduce bipartisan bill to House

The battle over payday loan fees will strain partisan loyalties at the Legislature again this year as new legislation was introduced Friday in the House.

Concealed carry bill shot down in Senate committee

A bill that would have allowed anyone able to purchase a handgun in Colorado to conceal the weapon was shot down in the State and Military Affairs Committee today.

VIDEO: MoveOn rally speakers challenge Hickenlooper/Republicans

Neither Republicans nor Democrats were safe as speakers at a rally held Tuesday evening to express solidarity for unions and the working class, sponsored by Moveon.org, had crowds riled up.

Hickenlooper says ‘probably not’ to Heath Initiative while signing bills

Gov. John Hickenlooper signed his first seven bills into law today and said he was not yet on board with Sen. Rollie Heath's tax increase ballot initiative.

Sen. Rollie Heath calls for new tax initiative to fund education...

A handful of Democrats stood behind Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, as he announced today a citizens' initiative to roll back tax rates in hopes of generating $1.63 billion over three years for higher education and K-12 education.

Senate Republicans knock Heath on tax increases

As State Senator Rollie Heath calls on Colorado voters to raise taxes in order to better fund education, his friends across the aisle today offered praise to Governor John Hickenlooper for agreeing that now is no time to raise taxes.

Invasion of Wyoming may be only way out of Colorado budget...

A full scale invasion of Wyoming by Colorado was one of the recommendations the presenters of a University of Denver study facetiously proposed as it was explained that Colorado's revenue structure is broken and would not be fixed even by a good economy.

VIDEO: Senators speak out for and against in-state tuition for undocumented...

Thursday, the Senate Education Committee passed SB 126, also known as Colorado ASSET. The debate showed Republican legislators conflicted on the issue and Democrats ardently in support.

Bill to allow for warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants dies...

Legislation modeled after a section of an Arizona law was killed yesterday in the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs committee on a party-line vote as Sen. Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, proclaimed the bill un-Coloradan. Bill sponsor, Sen. Kent Lambert, R-Colorado Springs, said the bill's death was just another example of Democrats failing to address the immigration issue.

Legislation coming to hold Colorado primary elections sooner in the year

Senator Rollie Heath, D-Boulder, said today that an elections commission will soon introduce legislation to hold Colorado primary elections in June in order to comply with new federal election guidelines.
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