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New study: Nondiscrimination laws don’t hurt small businesses

Republican lawmakers have been arguing that nondiscrimination protections hurt small businesses.  The Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee wrangled with the issue this winter when Sen. Laura Woods (R-Arvada)...

Eyes turn to Hickenlooper midway through legislative session

DENVER — It was the largest civil action held at the Capitol so far this year. Eighty immigrant rights protestors rallied Wednesday against a Republican...

House U-turns on immigrant driver’s license funding

DENVER -- The House rejected a program-funding standoff on Wednesday that threatened to bring hallmark D.C.-style dysfunction to the state Capitol this legislative session....

Littwin: Republicans deal out a hand of overreach poker at the...

Looking at the array of problems facing Democrats in this post-recall election year, what do the Republicans do? That's right, just what you'd expect them to do.

Republicans ready to rain on Democrats’ planned sunny-day legislature

  DENVER-- If you can measure anything by opening day speeches, the ones given in the House here today suggest the 2014 legislative session is...

Full text: Minority Leader DelGrosso opening day speech

  House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, a Loveland Republican, delivered remarks inaugurating the 2014 legislative session that celebrated Colorado mettle tested in recent years by...

Full text: Speaker Ferrandino opening day speech

"Now is not the time to take a step backward, to relitigate the fights of the past, to descend into Washington-style impasse and dysfunction."

Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso is Internet Japanese

House Minority Leader Brian DelGrosso, like most of his fellow lawmakers, has his own website, except his is in Japanese and it peddles payday loans.

Boulder Rep. Levy Drafting Bill to Repeal Death Penalty

State Rep. Claire Levy this week told The Colorado Independent she is writing a bill to eliminate the death penalty in Colorado. Levy, D-Boulder, said she will introduce the bill if she is satisfied it will have a strong chance of passing.

Scorecard singles out conservation heroes, villains in 2012 Colorado legislative session

The economy and the environment “both won” in Colorado's legislative session this year, according to an annual scorecard that a leading state environmental group released Thursday.