- “By filing separately, we are taking the state out of the equation,” said attorney Paula Greisen.
- The original roar was made by a 1970s synthesizer, and helped the Denver Museum of Nature and Science bring in about $10,000 annually.
- Colorado’s 2019 legislative session is over. The last four months of frantic lawmaking were a test for Democrats, who took complete control of the state Capitol last November. This episode, we look back at everything they were able to achieve — and why arguments over process at times got in the way of their biggest goals. And how Republicans, who lacked the votes to block legislation, found other ways to make their voices heard. The result was a session that showed passing bills isn’t as simple as just having a majority.
- The plan was one of the few points of agreement in an extremely heated legislative session.
- Colorado is one of 16 states where state workers don’t have collective bargaining rights. It will hold that status for at least another year.
- Their far-reaching plan, however, has seen some push back from county clerks and Republicans.
- Advocates say it’s about increasing ballot access, but not all good government groups are on board.
- The change has the support of Democratic lawmakers, but Gov. Jared Polis is on the fence.
- Amendments still did not win over some business leaders, but it was enough for Democrats on a key Senate committee.
- Ken Crumb passed the first fracking ban in the Colorado. In doing so, he ended up limiting local control of oil and gas.
- Ken Crumb’s story likely sounds familiar. A Front Range resident sees oil and gas drilling in his community. He doesn’t like it and organizes his neighbors to pass a local drilling ban. The thing is, in Ken’s case, this all happened more than 30 years ago. And that community he rallied was Greeley -- not exactly a hotbed of anti-fracking sentiment today. This episode, we look back at perhaps Colorado’s first fractivist. What Ken did ended up limiting local control of oil and gas development. Now, Democratic lawmakers have passed a bill to tilt the scales back in the other direction.
- Colorado is on the verge of becoming the 12th state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. The plan could someday commit all of Colorado’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who gets the most votes nationwide -- no matter who wins the state.
- Environmentalists say cities and counties shouldn’t be barred from action.
- Every bill gets a hearing and a vote in the Colorado legislature. In D.C, not so much.
- The last couple months have shown the depths of congressional dysfunction. Many think the problem isn’t so much the people who serve there. It’s a process that funnels all power to party leaders, stifling debate among the ranks. In 1988, Colorado voters recognized a similar issue in their state legislature. The remedy was something called the GAVEL Amendment -- an acronym for Give A Vote To Every Legislator.
- For more than three decades, Colorado cities could not regulate the rental market. A first-year lawmaker wants to change that.
