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Senate President Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, discusses the legislative session that kicked off last week during an interview at The Statesman offices on Jan. 14.
Photo by Ernest Luning/The Colorado Statesman
1/23/2012
By Jody Hope Strogoff and Ernest Luning
The Colorado Statesman
Senate President Brandon Shaffer says he doesn’t expect ideological differences — or his own congressional campaign — to get in the way of the Legislature’s ability to have a productive session this year. Amid calls for bipartisanship and agreement that jobs and the economy are the Legislature’s top priorities this session, Shaffer says the session has a “good tone and a good collaborative feel going,” and that he’s already working with Senate Republicans to advance legislation.
1/23/2012
By Peter Marcus
The Colorado Statesman
Republican and Democratic legislators took political punches at each other Thursday during the first house floor debate of the session over a resolution asking Congress to repeal federal health care reform.
1/23/2012
By Ernest Luning
The Colorado Statesman
More than 200 young politicos — and their supporters — showed up at a Capitol Hill bar on Jan. 11 at New Era Colorado’s annual celebration of the Legislature’s opening day. Lawmakers, campaign operatives and candidates rubbed shoulders with young activists and raised toasts to an ambitious legislative agenda unveiled earlier that day down the street at the Capitol.
1/16/2012
By Judie Schwartz
GUEST COLUMNIST
12/9/2011
By Judie Schwartz
The Colorado Statesman
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1/23/2012
Longtime Colorado Statesman columnist Jerry Kopel, who served 22 years in the Colorado House, peacefully passed away Saturday, Jan. 21. He was 83 years old. A figure in Colorado politics for decades, Kopel was an avid collector of legislative facts and history and enumerated them for many years in his unique weekly columns in The Statesman. He won several top awards from the Colorado Press Association over the years for his column writing and contributions to public service.
1/23/2012
By Peter Marcus
The Colorado Statesman
Republicans have introduced a flurry of early pro-gun bills in both chambers of the Colorado legislature, leaving gun control advocates speculating that the influx of legislation during a crucial election year serves to pander to conservative voters.
1/23/2012
By Morgan Smith
Special to The Colorado Statesman
“Does Jim Rizzuto still smoke his pipe?” U.S. Senator Mark Udall asks. It’s Friday, the 13th of January, we’re in La Junta and, yes, Jim Rizzuto, former Joint Budget Committee member and now the president of Otero Junior College, still smokes his pipe.
CML: 2012 STATE OF OUR CITIES & TOWNS SURVEY
1/23/2012
By Diana Allen and Sam Mamet
GUEST COLUMNISTS
You see it every day. Exposed rebar underneath a concrete bridge. Alligator cracking in the street ahead. The water or sewer line break underneath the road that is blocked forcing a detour on your drive home. These are all visible evidence that Colorado cities and towns are struggling to find the dollars needed to maintain the infrastructure that keeps our society functioning.
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