Joe Rice

Two laws go into effect tomorrow that provide tax breaks to businesses in order to promote job growth and future-looking clean-energy businesses. Tax cuts in a time of drastic budget shortfalls? Yes, if it means expanding the tax base and actually re-instituting and collecting those taxes in the future. And in fact it looks as [...]

Army Reserve Colonel and Littleton Democrat Joe Rice announced today that he will be deployed to Iraq this month — his fourth tour to the war-torn region to train Iraqi security forces.

With new, more environmentally stringent oil- and gas-drilling regulations a perfunctory state Senate vote and gubernatorial signature away from going into effect next month, all the Republican gnashing of teeth seems to have fallen largely on deaf ears.

SB 108, the so-called FASTER plan to fund road and bridge repairs, is just a couple of minor procedural steps from hitting Gov. Bill Ritter’s desk for a signature after the state House of Representatives passed it 34-31 on final reading Wednesday.

Rep. Joe Rice, D-Littleton, said he’s perplexed by the growing drumbeat from Republicans who want to gut the new oil and gas drilling regulations or at least delay them for a year or two.

The House of Representatives has unstrapped a plan to allow cops to pull people over for not wearing their seat belts as a primary offense.

Senate Bill 151 failed by a two-vote margin after a long and emotional debate on Thursday. It was the third year that such a proposal has failed in the legislature. Wearing [...]