Posted on 12 December 2009. Tags: 2010 Colorado General Assembly, 9News, Adam Schrager, Andrew Romanoff, Bente Birkeland, Bob Moore, Charles Ashby, Chemical Demilitarization Citizens Advisory Commission, Colorado Capitol, Colorado Capitol Building Advisory Committee, Colorado Capitol Press Association, Colorado General assembly, Colorado Historical Records Advisory Board, Colorado Municipal Bond Supervision Advisory Board, Colorado Pro Chapter of the Society Professional Journalists, Community Corrections Advisory Council, Eli Stokols, Emergency Medical and Trauma Services Advisory Council, Forestry Advisory Board, Fox31, Governor's Advisory Council for Persons With Disabilities, Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, House Speaker, Joan Fitz-Gerald, Joe Hanel, Journalists, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory Council, KDVR-TV, KUSA-TV, KWGN-TV, Law Week Colorado, Peter Groff, Photojournalists, Pollution Prevention Advisory Board, Radiation Advisory Committee, Rocky Mountain Community Radio, Senate President, State Bill Colorado, The Coloradoan, The Denver Voice, The Durango Herald, TheDeuce, U.S. Congress
Unlike at least one dozen other committees advising either the legislature or the governor, meetings of the standing committee of the Colorado Capitol Press Association are not open to the public.
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Posted on 07 December 2009. Tags: Aaron Cole, Amendment 23, Colorado Secretary Of State, David Hasselhoff, House Speaker, Josh Penry, Pew Research Center, Referendum C, TABOR, Terrence Carroll, Tiger Woods
“Ballot proposals like the two just accepted by the Secretary of State prove a dangerous point that TABOR is already teaching us: budget language has no business in the state’s Constitution,” The Aurora Sentinel’s Aaron Cole writes.
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Posted on 07 December 2009. Tags: Anadarko, Andrew Romanoff, At&T, Campaign Finance, Colorado House, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Craig Hughes, GlaxoSmithKline, House Speaker, Michael Bennet, Political Action Committees, U.S. Senate
A handful of the corporations on Michael Bennet’s list — such as petroleum company Anadarko, communications company AT&T and health care company GlaxoSmithKline — also wrote checks to Romanoff when he served in the state House.
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Posted in Campaign Finance, Featured Stories
Posted on 05 December 2009. Tags: Bonnie Solan, Colorado Constitution, Colorado Secretary Of State, Douglas Bruce, Freda Poundstone, Greenwood Village Mayor, House Speaker, Initiative 10, Initiative 12, Josh Penry, Louis Schroeder, Secretary of State, Senate Minority Leader, TABOR, Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, Terrance Carroll
“These proposals are reckless and mindless,” House Speaker Terrance Carroll, D-Denver, told The Denver Post.
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Posted on 22 November 2009. Tags: 2009 General Assembly, 2010 General Assembly, Amy Oliver Cooke, Cheri Gerou, Colorado Constitution, Colorado Supreme Court, Colorado Transparency Project, Commission of Higher Education, HD-25, House District 25, House Minority Leader, House Speaker, Independence Institute, Long Term Fiscal Stability Commission, Sean Conway, Senate Minority Leader, Senate President, TABOR, Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, Weld County Commission
“An unimaginative failure. That’s the best way to describe the results of the Long Term Fiscal Stability Commission,” write three of its minority members in today’s Denver Post.
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