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Tag: Jerry Sonnenberg
Tears flow over a weakened conservation easement bill
Jiliane Hixson, who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting over conservation easement tax credits with the Department of Revenue, left the Statehouse...
A corpse tampering bill may not be an anti-abortion ruse
Could a bill to make tampering with a corpse be a way Republicans could sneak anti-abortion "personhood" language into state law? Some Democrats think...
Colorado’s fight over land and water rights hits the Statehouse
Millions of Coloradans and tourists agree they love public lands, which take up more than a third of the state. Thousands of residents depend...
Corpse tampering bill survives the Senate
Tampering with a dead body could earn a suspect up to 12 years in jail and a fine of up to $750,000, under a...
Colorado outlaws rain barrels. Can the ban be lifted?
Put a bucket under your downspout and collect rain running off your roof to water your garden. You’re an outlaw in Colorado.
Critics have lambasted...
Dept. of Revenue abuses rural Colorado, say witnesses at Capitol
A fight over tax credits and a conservation easement program has cost many Coloradans their homes, farms and ranches. Some property owners have died...
Missing Persons Day declared in Colorado
This week marks the third anniversary of the disappearance of 21-year old Kelsie Schelling of Yuma.
Schelling disappeared around February 5, 2013. She had discovered she was...
Education, land and water use top rural lawmakers’ 2016 bills
Eastern Colorado lawmakers have big plans in 2016 to address their districts' concerns about education, land rights and water storage.
You’ll have to forgive Rep. Jon Becker...
Colorado lawmakers bump into death-row inmate Nathan Dunlap
In June, four Colorado legislators got face-to-face with death row inmate Nathan Dunlap, the Chuck E. Cheese killer whose execution was postponed last October...
Cory Gardner rallies farmers for massive water-storage project
Updated July 2, 2015: 8:20 p.m.
Colorado faces a looming shortage of billions of gallons of water in the next 35 years. One project in...