Gov. Bill Ritter on Thursday signed the $18.2 billion state budget, a plan that relies on cuts to schools and the repeal of many business tax breaks.
Posted on 30 April 2010.
Gov. Bill Ritter on Thursday signed the $18.2 billion state budget, a plan that relies on cuts to schools and the repeal of many business tax breaks.
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Posted on 09 April 2010.
The state Senate gave initial approval to an $18.2 billion 2010-11 state budget Thursday evening after a nearly seven-hour debate that touched on topics as varied as metal detectors at the Capitol and solitary confinement for prisoners.
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Posted on 09 April 2010.
The proposed opening of a portion of Colorado State Penitentiary II survived a barrage of amendments to the state budget Thursday that sought to redirect the $10.7 million earmarked for the project.
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Posted on 09 April 2010.
It may have been symbolic, but Fort Lewis College allies in the Legislature have won a small victory against the governor’s office and an influential group of lawmakers.
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Posted on 01 April 2010.
Fort Lewis College supporters in the state House flexed their political muscles Wednesday to remove a reference to the school’s Native American Tuition Waiver from the state budget. The episode served as a short replay of a January controversy.
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Posted on 31 March 2010.
The Colorado House tonight bucked a bipartisan attempt to delay a proposed state takeover of two Judicial Department computer systems operated currently under contract by information giant LexisNexis.
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Posted on 31 March 2010.
Colorado lawmakers say they’re tired of going from crisis to crisis in the budget debate and they’re offering a package of reforms they say will serve as a roadmap for future lawmakers.
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Posted on 30 March 2010.
Lawmakers on Monday began a round of hearings on the proposed 2010-11 state budget, a spending plan that anticipates a revenue shortfall of as much as $1.3 billion.
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Posted on 29 March 2010.
Representatives of Colorado’s House are meeting today with budget writers in Colorado’s Old Supreme Court chambers to consider the state’s 2010-2011 budget in its entirety. The so-called “Long” appropriations bill was filed over the weekend.
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