Author: Megan Schrader
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Colorado Springs GOP lawmakers discuss education, health care as session approaches
Concerns about education and health care dominated a town hall meeting Saturday where four local Republican lawmakers looked forward to the 2016 legislative session that begins Wednesday. Janice Taylor, a retired employee of the U.S. Department of State, said her top concern is health care and how the Affordable Care Act has impacted her. She…
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Colorado Springs senator claims TABOR exemption would violate state constitution
DENVER – The proposed Hospital Provider Fee fix to the state’s TABOR quandary may have been a nonstarter from the get-go, according to a legal memorandum by nonpartisan staff for the Colorado General Assembly. Senate President Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, released a copy of the opinion Wednesday showing that the Office of Legislative Legal Services…
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Lawmakers prep for TABOR, tort reform fights
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER – After laying out their policies before some of Denver’s most prominent business men and women, Democrats and Republicans each scored a victory when the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce endorsed their pet projects…
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House Democrats pledge to close off-shore tax loophole for Colorado corporations
DENVER – Closing corporate loopholes that allow overseas tax havens to shelter millions in profit from Colorado state taxes is a top priority in 2016 for Democrats in the state House of Representatives. “We need a fair system in Colorado, and if there are corporations that hide profits overseas or in other countries in an…
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Anti-fracking group readies 11 measure for November ballot
DENVER – The fight over hydraulic fracturing in Colorado is ramping up in the final days before the 2016 General Assembly convenes. On Tuesday, 11 anti-fracking ballot initiatives began the process that could lead to the November ballot and House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, a Democrat, told a room full of business leaders there are…
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Colorado Sen. Cadman, still a believer in democratic process, embarks on final term in legislature
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After 15 years under the Gold Dome, Senate President Bill Cadman is facing his last session. The Colorado Springs Republican’s sons were toddlers when he was appointed by a vacancy committee to the state House…
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Colorado taxpayers will get a TABOR gift in 2016
DENVER – Every Colorado income taxpayer will get a gift from TABOR this tax season, even if it’s the smallest of the projected refunds – $21 for a single filer. But the working poor will get an extra boost from the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights in 2016 because the state took in enough revenue last…
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Law to protect Colorado children goes into effect Friday
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER – One Colorado Springs lawmaker hopes his new law will help keep Colorado children safe and prevent sex-trafficking. Rep. Dan Nordberg, a Republican, sponsored House Bill 1078 in 2015, which requires the state to…
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Federal judge weighing issue of whether pot bank should have access to nation’s banking system
DENVER – A federal judge will decide whether Colorado’s marijuana industry must continue to deal in cash or if money generated from the sale of a drug that remains illegal under federal law can enter the U.S. banking system. U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson said during oral arguments Monday at the Alfred A. Arraj…
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Planned Parenthood director: Colorado Springs clinic workers saved lives
DENVER – If the Planned Parenthood shooter sought to dissuade women from seeking abortions, history has shown that fear and life-threatening situations don’t prevent women from ending unwanted pregnancies, the nonprofit’s leader told The Gazette. Long before abortions were made legal in Roe v. Wade, women consented to being blindfolded and taken to undisclosed locations…