According to Julia Martinez’s Affairs of the State column in the Denver Post, Democratic Sen. Suzanne Williams is considering legislation to change the Columbus Day holiday in Colorado. Since Colorado was the first state to observe the holiday in 1905, we can be the first to abandon it - even though it is a Federal […]

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The right of individual workers in Colorado to choose whether they want union representation is under attack. “HB 1072: Empowering Union Leaders, Not Workers,” a new issue backgrounder by policy analyst Ben DeGrow, Education Policy Analyst, Independence Institute, explains how a basic worker protection in the 60-year-old Colorado Labor Peace Act is being undermined by […]

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By Mark Hillman
During my eight years at the State Capitol, I found that, for people who have a life, one of the more difficult aspects of following news about the Legislature is making sense out of the peculiar vernacular of the Capitol.
Legislators and lobbyists speak in strange tongues about “fiscal notes” and “legislative declarations” or […]

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