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This story was covered yesterday, but the full quotes from Republicans in today’s Denver Post really stand out as…well, as really lame: Gov. Bill Ritter announced his 2008 business agenda Tuesday, a package of tax and economic-development proposals that business leaders called the most aggressive in a decade. The governor wants to create a $3.5 […]

As the Rocky Mountain News reports: More than 90 bills become law Sunday, kicking off the Fourth of July week with a bang or whimper, depending on your politics… “The winners on July 1 are kids who need health care, seniors in nursing homes, victims of domestic violence. Those folks will be better off,” said […]

The second half of the Grand Junction Sentinel’s weekend political coverage: Republicans are unlikely to seize control of either house of the Legislature next year, but could get one house back in 2010, the new chairman of the Colorado Republican Party said… Wadhams shepherded Republicans Wayne Allard to the U.S. Senate and Bill Owens to […]

Several oft-mentioned Republican CD-4 potentials are now quoted as backing Rep. Marilyn Musgrave in 2008 instead of condsidering a primary challenge, as the Denver Post reports: A pack of noted Republicans from northeastern Colorado – some rumored to have considered a run for Congress themselves – will instead stand behind U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave as […]

Yesterday’s Denver Post profiled young Republican lawmakers at the State Capitol, with one strange comparison: Leading much of the opposition – and some compromise – on tough issues this year has been a group of young Republicans that some have likened to the early ’80s legislative crew of former Gov. Bill Owens, U.S. Sen. Wayne […]

There have already been a lot of interesting bills reach the legislature this session, some of which weren’t interesting in a good way. Others are addressing issues that have been dormant for awhile, such as the extension of the “Make My Day” law and a bill that would deregulate the taxi cab companies. The latter […]