The Durango HeraldPeter MarcusDENVER – An adviser to Colorado House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst quickly left the Capitol on Thursday after it was revealed that she violated House rules.Jenise May, a Democrat and former state lawmaker who currently serves as a special adviser to Hullinghorst, has been holding the staff position while she had simultaneously

Pagosa Daily PostBy Kelly MaherYesterday afternoon, the Colorado Senate Committee on Business, Labor and Technology rightly allowed Colorado’s Pay Equity Commission to sunset. This action came after hours of testimony from both small and large business-owning women, who called on Senators to not allow for the renewal of the Commission. Proponents of the sunset even

Denver PostDavid MigoyaA Republican-led state Senate committee Wednesday voted to end the work of a commission whose task was to deal with issues of pay equity, prompting an angry response from labor groups.In a party-line 5-4 vote, the Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee chose to end the commission's work.Colorado's Pay Equity Commission was created

KDVREli StokolsDENVER — Senate Republicans again reminded their Democratic colleagues what it’s like being in the minority as they voted Wednesday afternoon to do away with the Pay Equity Commission, arguing that it’s a feckless body that hasn’t accomplished much.Democrats, while ostensibly angry about the 5-4 party-line vote by the GOP-controlled Senate Business, Labor and

KDVRBy Eli StokolsDENVER — For all the obsessive punditry about the drop-off in voter turnout during mid-term elections, consider that Colorado saw a major uptick in the number of young voters casting ballots in 2014 compared to 2010 — something Democrats spent millions of dollars to engineer that, ultimately, wasn’t enough to save Sen. Mark

The Denver PostLynn BartlesSeptember 10, 2014 Congressman Cory Gardner and Sen. Mark Udall face separate complaints filed against them this week as Colorado’s U.S. Senate race heats up.Both sides said the complaints — filed by members of the opposite party — were political.Udall, a Democrat running for a second term, is accused of violating campaign finance

The GazetteMegan SchraderAugust 14, 2014 Compass Colorado — a non-profit government watchdog group — responded to The Gazette's investigation into tax incentives for the Gaylord Rockies hotel calling the deal "cronyism at its worst.""The fact that an out-of-state developer can vote for the existence of a new tax district, with only a single person voting, then funnel

Colorado Peak PoliticsAugust 14, 2014 Aurora politics have been thrust into the spotlight based on reports that a new hotel tax scheme is fostering corporate welfare on a massive scale.The controversial Gaylord Hotel project in Aurora is benefiting from a special tax district created by the Aurora City Council.  The catch is that only a

Complete ColoradoTodd ShepherdAugust 13, 2014 On June 27, former Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff oversaw a group of volunteers chalking the sidewalk of the government district office of U.S. Representative Mike Coffman in protest over immigration issues. The political protest ended when the building manager, Quyet Dang, arrived in the parking lot and