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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announces his intentions on May 9 to call the legislature into a special session to consider a civil unions bill and others that died in the House after Republicans filibustered the measure. Quoting Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the governor said, “‘The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.’ We want to make sure that that arc continues moving forward.”
Photos by Ernest Luning/The Colorado Statesman
5/11/2012
By Peter Marcus
The Colorado Statesman
Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday called a special session of the legislature to address civil unions legislation and six of the 30 other bills condemned to death after House Republicans allowed the bills to languish on the calendar before a midnight deadline on Tuesday. The highly criticized GOP strategy was purportedly aimed at killing a controversial proposal to allow same-sex couples to have similar legal protections as traditional married couples.
5/11/2012
By Peter Marcus
The Colorado Statesman
Latino voters in Colorado may target Republicans in politically vulnerable legislative districts following a controversial vote last month by the GOP caucus that killed legislation aimed at providing reduced tuition rates to undocumented students.
5/11/2012
By Bob Ewegen
Special to The Colorado Statesman
It’s a fine and righteous thing to honor past heroes of conscience such as former Gov. Ralph L. Carr, whose name will adorn Colorado’s new state judicial complex. But Denver Manager of Safety Alex Martinez believes it’s even more important to look into the future and ask what our grandchildren will think about the stands we are now taking on today’s burning issues of conscience — at a time when their moral dimensions may not be quite as clear.
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5/11/2012
By Ernest Luning
The Colorado Statesman
Backers of legalized civil unions for same-sex couples in Colorado will have another bite at the apple after Gov. John Hickenlooper this week ordered lawmakers to hold a special session to consider proposals that died when House Republican leaders and the bill’s supporters engaged in a standoff over whether to bring the measure to a vote.
5/11/2012
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, energized supporters at a K.P. Kauffman Co. drill site outside Ft. Lupton on Wednesday when he denounced the solar and wind focus of the Obama administration and dug in deep with his call for increased domestic production of oil and gas.
5/11/2012
By Peter Marcus
The Colorado Statesman
Gov. John Hickenlooper joined with legislative leaders and members of the Joint Budget Committee on Monday, May 7, to sign the state budget for fiscal year 2012-13, praising lawmakers for having passed a budget with more support than it has received in 17 years.
The $7.7 billion General Fund spending plan — part of a $19 billion overall budget — was backed by 86 of the 100 lawmakers who serve in the legislature, a reflection of Colorado’s willingness to work across the aisle to pass important measures for the state, according to Hickenlooper.
5/11/2012
By Bob Ewegen
Special to The Colorado Statesman
For ninety years after it achieved statehood in 1876, Colorado elected its judges in partisan elections. As a result, mining and other business interests had so much clout in the courtroom on high profile cases that historian Page Smith lumped the judiciary in with the corrupt executive and legislative branches in labeling Colorado’s state government “a wholly owned subsidiary of the Rockefellers and Guggenheims.”
MASTERS: NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW
5/11/2012
By David L. Masters
GUEST COLUMNIST
While in a jail cell in Birmingham, Ala., Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote: “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
5/11/2012
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4/27/2012
By Judie Schwartz
Contributing Columnist
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