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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...

GOP Senate prez under fire for state transportation tax plan

Reaction from conservative lawmakers and their allies to a transportation bill introduced Wednesday afternoon has been swift and from some, brutal. The plan would seek voter approval to...

Midpoint in the Garden of the General Assembly

Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed roughly 33 bills into law in the past week. You’d be hard pressed to name even one of them....

Americans for Prosperity flex muscles at the statehouse

A year ago, then-state Senate President Bill Cadman, a Colorado Springs Republican, told a gathering of the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity that...

Guns, guns and more gun (bills) at the state Capitol this...

Update: In a hearing that lasted for more than eight hours, the House State Affairs Committee Wednesday killed all three gun bills on its...

Opening Day at the Colorado General Assembly: One day down, 119...

The 2017 session of the Colorado General Assembly already had distinguished itself before today’s Opening Day. It includes the first Latina Speaker of the House,...

Did Cynthia Coffman push for a failed anti-abortion bill?

Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, who has carefully skirted the abortion issue for the past year, found herself front and center today on the issue...

Anti-abortion stunt slows the state budget debate

Abortion politics took center stage during a debate on the state budget bill Thursday, when Rep. Patrick Neville, a Parker Republican, tried to add...

Rocky Mountain Gun Owners’ no-compromise gun bills die

DENVER -- Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and the House Republicans lost yet another slate of bills to make it easier to carry concealed weapons...

Colorado to test bill on Texas abortion law

Coat hangers long have been a specter of things past -- a symbol of the pre-Roe v. Wade era. But recent moves to outlaw...