Tag: Terrance Carroll

DENVER-- A Colorado youth symphony played the national anthem to open the Colorado Senate this morning, the gavel bang marking the start of a legislative session that will be characterized by extraordinary wrangling over the recession-constrained budget in a heated election year.

Who will run for Denver mayor next May should John Hickenlooper win the governor's seat in November? The list of potential candidates is long--...

Last night 9 News talked to GOP gubernatorial frontrunner Scott McInnis about the fact that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper will now be his Democratic...

DENVER-- Gov. Bill Ritter, Senate President Brandon Shaffer and House Speaker Terrance Carroll told a crowd of mostly media gathered on the west steps of the Capitol this afternoon that the majority-party legislative agenda this session would focus on creating and maintaining jobs in the state and balancing the budget. The three men also underlined the value they placed on a bipartisan approach to achieving their priorities. A scheduled conference called by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper who would be announcing his candidacy for governor just hours later, however, hung over the event and suggested how difficult true bipartisanship might be to effect this election year.

Colorado Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak told the Colorado Independent yesterday that ten would-be candidates for governor had been testing the waters for a...

Colorado Democratic Party Chair Pat Waak told the Colorado Independent today that ten "excellent" potential gubernatorial candidates have been weighing a run in the...

DENVER-- Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry has been out of the governor's race for a month, but you couldn't tell based on the back-and-forth on display at the press conference held by Colorado legislative leadership at the Denver Press Club Monday. Ostensibly a meeting called mainly to present legislative ideas on how to address the budget, Penry devoted his time there to making the same finger-wagging points he made for months on the campaign trail, calling Gov. Bill Ritter a bad manager and a big spender not yet fully chastened by the state's budget crisis.

The leaders of the state legislature danced a kind of forward-back tango with the internet this month. The Senate at last found the money...

It appears at first as though an important political-cultural wall has crumbled. Provocative conservative talk-radio host Amy Oliver is offering testimony in an official capacity on state budget and funding priorities. She is a member of the legislature's Interim Long-Term Fiscal Commission, the site this summer of what the Denver Post called a battle of philosophies.

Colorado voters are making too much law and the wrong kind of law at the ballot box, according to a growing list of elected officials, analysts and experts. Critics of the state's famously loose ballot-initiative process agree it unnecessarily opens up the state constitution to improperly vetted amendments, which are extremely difficult to rework or repeal. The result: Bad laws that bog down government and generate extended and expensive lawsuits.