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Current NewsLawmakers brace for broadband battle
2/11/2013
The Colorado Statesman
After a 20-month process to reform the state’s telecommunications laws resulted in the dramatic death of a 71-page comprehensive legislative package last year, lawmakers and the industry are bracing for yet another fight at the Capitol. The question is whether legislators will introduce piecemeal portions of the legislation from last year that aimed to modernize the state’s telecom laws, or once again go for a larger package. That issue could be left in the hands of newly elected Senate President John Morse, D-Colorado Springs. State treasurer wants to tie reform of PERA to education
2/11/2013
The Colorado Statesman
The debate over sustaining the state’s Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA) system has surfaced again at the legislature, with proposals aimed at addressing an estimated $23 billion in unfunded liabilities. Republican Treasurer Walker Stapleton has proposed a different approach, encouraging Sen. Michael Johnston, D-Denver, to include PERA reform in any legislation that seeks to raise additional dollars for education. Stapleton wants to ensure that funds are directed into the classroom and not used to backfill unfunded liabilities. Colorado Freedom Memorial project underway
2/11/2013
The Colorado Statesman
Nearly a dozen years after the idea was first conceived, organizers, dignitaries and military families broke ground in Aurora on Saturday for a memorial honoring every Colorado member of the military killed or missing in action since statehood. ‘Boots to Suits’ aims to move vets into college
2/11/2013
Special to The Colorado Statesman
Military veterans moving from military life to civilian life have gotten another tool to help with that process. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce and CU Denver have created a “Boots to Suits” program that will move vets into college and then into a second transition into the business world. Boots to Suits started just a year ago, part of the university’s Veteran Student Services office. About 60 veterans are already in the program, and another 25 are expected in the spring semester. IN MEMORIUMShirley Archuleta Siek (1933-2013)
2/11/2013
Shirley Archuleta Siek passed from this life in Denver on February 4, 2013. She was 79. Mrs. Siek was a multiple generation Colorado native who grew-up in Silverton and Durango, but had been a Denver resident since 1972. Her loving husband of 40 years, Bob, was with her at passing. Romanoff’s early entrance into CD 6 race enhances speculation
2/1/2013
The Colorado Statesman
Almost as if on cue, former State House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, D-Denver, submitted his official statement of candidacy to the Federal Election Commission for Colorado’s 6th Congressional District — just a day after the Democrats’ House Majority PAC announced that incumbent Congressman Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, had been named to a list of most vulnerable Republicans in the country. Legislators fired up about gun bills
2/1/2013
The Colorado Statesman
The debate over gun control took center stage at the state legislature this week with controversial bills presented by Republicans seeking to curb efforts by Democrats to limit firearm possession. The debate follows the July Aurora movie theater shooting, which claimed the lives of 12 and injured 58 others, and it has spilled into the national conversation, gaining momentum after the December Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that left 20 children and six staff members dead in Newtown, Conn. On Wednesday, the issue gained more traction after Phoenix police said three people were injured in a morning shooting at an office building there. SoS Gessler seeks to limit ethics probe
Secretary of state narrowly avoids legislative audit after partyline vote
2/1/2013
The Colorado Statesman
Attorneys for Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler on Wednesday filed a lawsuit seeking to limit a probe by the Independent Ethics Commission into whether he misspent public dollars. Just one day earlier, the secretary narrowly escaped an audit of his office’s use of discretionary funds after the Legislative Audit Committee tied on a vote to authorize the investigation. Inauguration of the President
Denver Dems celebrate Obama’s inauguration from afar
1/25/2013
The Colorado Statesman
Denver Democrats cheered President Barack Obama’s second inauguration at a bash thrown locally on Monday night at an East Denver restaurant. The inaugural gala, sponsored by the Democrats of House Districts 6 and 8, featured replays of the day’s highlights in the swank surroundings at the Cork House Broker Restaurant, familiar to neighborhood denizens as the longtime home of the venerable Tante Louise. Jill Q. Citizen does D.C. — A local Democrat’s diary of the inauguration
1/25/2013
Guest Contributor
Editor’s Note: Denver Democrat Halisi Vinson attended President Barack Obama’s inaugural ceremony and many of the festivities surrounding the event along with her husband, Ricardo Crawley, and chronicled the historic occasion for The Colorado Statesman. A delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, she is the assistant secretary of the Denver Democratic Party and is the only announced candidate for secretary at next month’s reorg. She is one of the owners of A New Dawn, a local media and marketing company. |
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