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Tag: Lori Saine
Death penalty passes the House after hours of debate focused on...
Update: This story was originally published on Feb. 25, 2020, when the House passed the death penalty repeal bill by a voice vote. It...
GOP mum on Rep. Lori Saine’s lynching comment, which Dems call...
Colorado House Republicans are not taking a position on a controversial statement about lynching victims that the GOP caucus leader made during a resolution...
Lawmakers reconsider Gold Dome’s sexual harassment policy after session fraught with...
On a hot Monday morning this week, Colorado lawmakers returned to a mostly empty committee room at the state Capitol to try to bring...
Lawmakers selected to tackle workplace harassment policy in wake of session...
A lawmaker whose sexual harassment complaint led to the historic expulsion of a fellow Democrat from the House of Representatives will serve on a...
Democrats kill bill requiring providers to show fetus ultrasound to abortion...
Democrats on Thursday blocked a bill that would have required doctors to offer women seeking an abortion an ultrasound of the fetus 24 hours...
Secretive lobbying group heads to Denver next week. Here’s what you...
Updated to add statement from Rep. Leslie Herod of Denver.
As a powerful organization backed by some of the nation's wealthiest conservative families prepares to...
Senate’s gun-rights bills shot down by House Democrats
Just one bill to expand gun rights in Colorado is still standing after a state House committee dispatched three pro-gun bills Wednesday.
That last remaining...
Why Colorado lawmakers hope this is the year to solve the...
This much perhaps everyone can agree on: Colorado is in an affordable housing crisis, whether you live on the Front Range, Western Slope or...
What’s ALEC? And why are so many Colorado lawmakers hooked on...
At least nine Republican lawmakers from Colorado are meeting this week with a secretive national group focused on crafting ready-to-go conservative legislation.
And next year, that...
5 Republicans voted against Chicano History Week. Here’s why.
Joe Salazar, the embattled Democratic representative from Thorton, Colorado, had a victory this week. A measure he sponsored designating February 2-8 as Chicano History Week passed...