Vote on school breakfast program for poor kids cooks up heartburn for...
There have been a few party-line votes on the legislature’s now evenly split Joint Budget Committee, but one 3-3 decision on Tuesday reverberated through the blogosphere with talk of hungry kids and...
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Does breakfast at school make kids fat?
Students inside the cafeteria at Dora Moore k-8 School in Denver eat lunch as Colorado House Democrats host a press conference outside saying they would restore funding for the free breakfast program...
View ArticleLambert says he may flip vote on school breakfasts: “It’s technical”
[Update: In an interview with a Colorado Springs TV station, Lambert appears to suggest he and fellow Republicans voted against funding for the Start Smart program because former Gov. Bill Ritter's...
View ArticleJBC sweeps $2 million from cash fund Gessler had wanted to keep for his office
The legislature’s Joint Budget Committee voted this afternoon to take $2 million from a cash fund in Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s office, money he had wanted to keep and spend in his own agency....
View ArticleJBC scraps sweep of Gessler’s cash fund
In another reversal of fortune, Secretary of State Scott Gessler will get to keep the $2 million from his cash fund that the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee had voted to sweep earlier in the week....
View ArticleGessler’s cash fund, school breakfasts on the Senate’s menu this week
Just when it seemed that Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler had won the battle over keeping a $3.5 million surplus in his office, the Democratic-controlled state Senate says not so fast....
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Republican senator restores funding for school breakfast subsidy
Sen. Keith King poses during the first regular session of the 68th Colorado General Assembly. (Joe Amon, Denver Post file) A Republican state senator who’s also a school principal restored funding...
View ArticleSenate strips away Gessler’s money
Continuing a tug-of war over a cash surplus in Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s office, the Democratic-controlled Senate today voted to sweep the money while ripping the Republican over his plan to...
View ArticleNot waiting for McNulty, Senate D’s – and R’s – plan to drop their own budget...
Senate Democrats and their Republican colleagues are poised to drop their own budget bill Monday after a week of fruitless negotiations with House Speaker Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch. “I think the...
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Bill dealing with tax evasion inspired by Colorado’s most famous tax evader
[media-credit name="Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post" align="alignright" width="270"][/media-credit] Douglas Bruce drinks a Slurpee outside a Denver courtroom before his sentencing hearing on tax...
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