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Rep. Ed Perlmutter pushes Facebook privacy amendment to no avail
Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post Colorado Rep. Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat, pushed a measure Thursday that would have prevented employers from accessing social media passwords to vet employment. WASHINGTON...
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Saturday session: House says it’s likely, Senate says not this week
The Denver Post Late nights, long debates. Welcome to the 2013 session. The finger pointing continued today at the Colorado legislature over a crowded and crazy workload that has lawmakers working late...
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Democratic-leaning poll gives Hickenlooper, Udall rosy re-election outlooks...
Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post A Democratic-leaning poll gives Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and U.S. Sen. Mark Udall good news ahead of their 2014 elections. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and...
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Democrats’ election bill clears House on party-line vote, heads to the Senate
A wide-ranging elections measure spearheaded by Democrats passed through the Colorado House Friday on a party-line vote with staunch opposition from Republicans. At its core, the measure would send...
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Tom Tancredo’s eerie 2008 presidential ad that foreshadows the Boston...
WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Tom Tancredo made a video in his 2008 presidential election bid warning of “spineless politicians” who are not doing enough to protect the borders and what can happen. The...
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Denver mayoral appointee dies suddenly, Mayor Hancock: ‘our hearts are broken’
Paul Ryan, who was the director of regional affairs for Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, died Saturday after a sudden illness had hospitalized him. Paul Ryan, the director of regional affairs for Denver...
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Andrew Romanoff is in the building, so are other former lawmakers
Lynn Bartels Former Sens. Mark Hillman and Nancy Spence and former Rep. Joe Rice were at the Capitol Friday. So where others who once served under the Gold Dome. Former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff...
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Updated: Colorado elections bill gets personal as fliers link GOP clerks to...
Update: Mario Nicolais, an attorney at Hackstaff Law Group, said his firm represents Citizens for Free and Fair Elections, but had no input on the content of the fliers. He declined to specify who was...
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Denver council announces composting for city hall, but what about the rest of...
Denver City Council on Friday sent out a press release saying that composting has come to the City and County Building, meaning staffers in the building will be able to compost their food scraps and...
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Former Denver Mayor Bill Vidal to speak today to Senate panel about...
Former Denver Mayor Guillermo “Bill” Vidal was invited by Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont to testify today before the committee about the new bipartisan immigration bill....
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Jubilation on the House floor as students learn they have won a Daniels...
Around 30 metro-area semifinalists for the Daniels Scholarship thought they were coming to the House this morning to hear a resolution recognizing the scholarship program. Lynn Bartels Michelle...
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Democratic senator to woman pushing recall: “I am Evie Hudak”
CGA Sen. Evie Hudak When Sen. Evie Hudak went grocery shopping a week ago Saturday she saw a woman with a big sign saying “Recall Hudak,” and so she approached her. “I walked up to see who it was, to...
View ArticleVote 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...
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