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Work to regain and maintain our values
With the end of the legislative session in early May, I now write new columns monthly rather than the session’s weekly efforts. One constituent thanked me for my “letters from…
The clock strikes midnight, session over
As the clock strikes midnight on Wednesday, the 2013 legislative session comes to a close. There will be a number of efforts seeking to sum up the work that we…
Pagosa biomass project an exciting opportunity
This is the last full week of the 2013 session. Still to be debated and voted on in the Senate are many weighty topics, some presented in lengthy bills of…
A bad bill for rural Colorado
When people have asked me to describe this legislative session, often I find myself referring to the expression that it’s been like, “the pig in the python.” There’s so much…
Youth Advisory Council members visit the legislature
The Colorado Youth Advisory Council (COYAC) students make their second trip of the legislative session to the Capitol this week and they’ve been busy preparing for their time with the…
Face to face with the real world
Last week brought life in the legislature face to face with the real world on a couple of different fronts. We began the week with two funerals, one for Tom…
Debating high profile, volatile issues
Every week, this session seems to feature a new high profile and volatile issue to be debated. Last week, it was the start of the school finance bill. Colorado’s approach…
Week features constituent contacts
Last week was busy with constituent contact as well as my regular legislative duties. A group of citizens participating in the Montrose Chamber’s leadership program came to Denver to spend…
A shameful denial of the right to speak
We voted on the gun control bills on Monday and the bills now go back to the House, if they were amended in the Senate or, if unamended, they now…
Controversial gun bills to be heard in committees
The Senate will be consumed this week with what has now grown to six very controversial gun control bills to be heard in committees, then on the floor. The concentration…
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