Marianne Goodland

Gov. John Hickenlooper has finished signing legislation passed by the 2011 General Assembly, meeting the June 10 deadline for action.

Fifth District Congressman Doug Lamborn’s effort to defund the Jefferson County-based National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL) is getting some pushback from his fellow Republicans in Colorado.

Two state senators could wind up in new districts under a preliminary map approved Monday by the state Reapportionment Commission.

House Minority Leader Sal Pace, D-Pueblo, ended months of speculation about his political future Tuesday and officially announced he will seek the Congressional District 3 seat currently held by Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo.

Gov. John Hickenlooper handed down his first full-bill veto Tuesday, striking down a measure that would have asked certain low-income parents to pay monthly premiums for their children’s health insurance.

The 11-member body that is charged with redrawing the state’s House and Senate seats heard the first suggestions from the general public on Tuesday, and while the number of people who showed up to speak were few, their testimony was potent.

A Feb. 6, 2012 trial date has been set for the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of SB 10-001, the General Assembly’s effort to put the Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) on solid financial footing.

If idle hands are the devil’s playground, as the expression goes, he’ll find no haven in the offices of the assignable clerks of the Colorado House of Representatives.

On June 14, Secretary of State Scott Gessler will hold a rulemaking hearing to temporarily fix a conflict between the new primary date in June and campaign finance reporting requirements. But critics say the fix goes much further than it needs to, and it is a problem that will have to be dealt with in the next legislative session.

Nearly 19 years after voters adopted the Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights, and one year after a TABOR time-out expired, a group of 34 bipartisan plaintiffs have filed suit in U.S. District Court in Denver to throw out the tax limitation amendment as unconstitutional.