Tag: Patrick Neville
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Unsustainable? Colorado’s government keeps growing
Proponents of Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights designed the constitutional amendment to curb government’s voracious appetite for more spending. But the state’s most recognizable tax law, which turns 30 this year, hasn’t stopped the government from growing. Not even close. Consider this: Lawmakers propose to spend $36.4 billion in the next fiscal year, an amount…
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Q&A with Rep. Alec Garnett | Speaker of the House reflects on his time in the legislature
At 38, Speaker of the House Alec Garnett, D-Denver, is in his last of eight years in the Colorado House and among the youngest to serve in that position. Garnett is the third Democrat from the Capitol Hill House District to wield the speaker’s gavel. He follows former speakers Mark Ferrandino, the youngest to ever…
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2020 could be the year of ‘peak Democrat’ in Colorado. This is why.
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Growing up in Alabama in the Southern Baptist church, Pamla May Sterner recalled being a Republican by default. “That’s what was preached from the pulpit, the values that supposedly the Republican platform entailed,” she said.…
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Bandimere Speedway sues state, Gov. Polis over COVID-19 public health orders
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The family that owns Bandimere Speedway filed a lawsuit against the state and Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday — the same day Jefferson County Public Health announced it was suing the Morrison track for violating public health orders. Bandimere’s lawsuit is regarding the COVID-19 public…
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COVER STORY | A whodunit at the Capitol as Republicans ponder their rocky election
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It was a rare thing: a close vote that should have been unanimous. On Jan. 14, Colorado state Rep. Kim Ransom of Lone Tree was elected to represent Republicans in the House of Representatives on the Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee. The vote by Ransom’s fellow…
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INSIGHTS | A GOP family feud over a red-flag bill
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Editor’s note: Joey Bunch is away, so this week we revisit his Insights column of May 11, 2018. Close to midnight on one of the final days of the 2018 legislative session last May, Colorado House of Representatives Republicans met in a caucus to discuss…
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INSIGHTS | It’s hard to find common ground on guns
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save EDITOR’S NOTE: Joey Bunch is away, so this week we revisit his Insights column of Feb. 23, 2018. Maybe if partisans didn’t go too far. I don’t know. It confounds me why we can’t talk constructively about guns in this state, or this nation, without…
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Democrats call on GOP legislative leaders to take harassment training over jokes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado statehouse Democrats are demanding that two Republican leaders in Colorado’s House and Senate — House Minority Leader Patrick Neville and Senate Majority Leader Chris Holbert — undergo sexual harassment training. The request is in response to a Facebook post Neville, R-Franktown, on Saturday. The…
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FROM 2017: Denver Rustlers ride again to the Colorado State Fair to hobnob and help kids sell livestock
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A do-gooder delegation of more than 300 state and metro Denver politicians and business leaders descended on Pueblo, the Home of Heroes, Tuesday for the Junior Livestock Auction at the Colorado State Fair. The Denver Rustlers rode again for the 33rd year. More than 300…