The transportation bill backed by Senate Republicans in Colorado gets its first hearing on Tuesday. Statehouse reporter Bente Birkeland talked to Ed Sealover with the Denver Business Journal and Marianne Goodland with Colorado Politics about that and other issues as […]
This week’s guest on the Labor Exchange is Claire Levy, Exec. Director of the Colorado Center for Law & Policy. She spoke with host Dennis Creese about the state of working Colorado. https://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/kgnu-news/2018/01/LX_01-08-18.mp3 The Labor Exchanges airs every other Monday […]
There’s the allegation of a lawmaker who suggested sexual acts and tried to force a colleague to go home with him. Another allegedly grabbed and slapped an aide’s buttocks as she walked in the Capitol. Another claim: A senator would […]
Chief of Staff Doug Friednash is the latest to exit the administration. Three other cabinet members left this fall – including the heads of the Department of Transportation, Department of Labor and Employment, and the head of the agency that […]
New claims of sexual harassment have been brought up at the Colorado legislature involving Sens. Randy Baumgardner and Jack Tate. Both, in comments to us, strongly deny any wrongdoing, although they refused to answer our specific questions directly. Bente Birkeland […]
This American statesman knows a thing or two about heated negotiations from his role as Senate majority leader to architect of the peace in Northern Ireland and twice the US Special envoy for Middle East peace talks. http://objects-us-east-1.dream.io/kgnu-news/2015/07/07-03-15-Booktalk-Mitchell.mp3 Listen […]
Colorado’s first special session in five years ended after two days with no legislation passing. The governor had called lawmakers back to the state capitol to fix a mistake in the most extensive and heavily lobbied bill of the 2017 […]
A political gamble taken by Gov. John Hickenlooper to fix a mistake in a bipartisan bill that he signed has come up short. After two days and $50,000 from taxpayers, no legislation was passed during the special legislative session. Even […]
